Friday Five: Trevin Wax

Doing theology through fiction.

For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with Trevin Wax.

Trevin Wax is author of Clear Winter Nights. He currently works at LifeWay Christian Resources as managing editor of The Gospel Project, a gospel-centered small group curriculum for all ages that focuses on the grand narrative of Scripture. He blogs regularly at Kingdom People.

Today we chat with Trevin about storytelling, influences, and conviction.

You've written, blogged, and spoke on theological issues. Now you dive into a work of fiction. What prompted this change in genre?

It's interesting how you phrased that question within a framework of moving from "theology" to "fiction." I think this question illuminates something in the way evangelicals tend to think about theology. We see it as the abstract explanation of propositional truth. This is one aspect of "doing theology," of course, but throughout Christian history, there have been plenty of believers who have chosen to do theology through fiction. One ...

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