As long as people know that fiction is fiction, we shouldn’t apologize for using our God-given imaginations to create worlds for characters to inhabit, and for readers to enjoy and learn from.

I was raised in a non-Christian home, and first heard the gospel when I was 15 years old.  After reading the Bible daily over a period of months, I placed my faith in Christ in 1969.

Randy’s responses to questions asked by Jerry Jenkins and the Christian Writers Guild.

Parents have to balance their responsibility to govern their children’s lives with their teenagers’ need to develop independence and freedom. Parents have to maintain that tension. 



I grew up with one half brother, but had four older siblings from my dad’s previous marriage.

Randy Alcorn’s answers to questions for the May 28, 2009 Christian Leadership Alliance webinar.

Unlike authors who, after landing their first contract, find themselves on a runaway treadmill trying to churn out one manuscript after another, often on topics about which they have no passion, Randy Alcorn has cleared a different path.

Because faith without works is dead, preachers should be activists. This doesn’t mean everyone should be political activists, but we should take significant action in light of the truths of the Bible we believe and teach.

Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries and the author of many award-winning and bestselling books. In this interview Alcorn talks about his new nonfiction work Heaven, describes what he believes the role of writing in religion is, and relates the story of a young man who was brought to Christ after reading one of Alcorn's novels.