But, finally, good fiction isn’t a “waste of time” for the same reason good music and good art aren’t wastes of time. They are rooted in an endlessly creative God who has chosen to be imaged by human beings who create. Culture isn’t irrelevant. It’s part of what God commanded us to do in the [...]
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Good fiction isn’t a “waste of time”
Posted in Books and articles, tagged arts-biblical perspective, creation, culture, Power of Story on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stories, Hope, Life, and Children
Posted in Books and articles, contemporary culture, Personal growth, tagged arts-biblical perspective, parenting, Parenting for Joy, Power of Story on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My children are 19, 16, and 12. One is in college, the second considering colleges, and the third looking towards them in the future (he loves the dining hall the best when we visit campuses!). So I think about the future, what they will grow up to be, and what God has for them in [...]
Life, Imagination, and Longing
Posted in Books and articles, Personal growth, tagged Power of Story on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things-the beauty, the memory of our own past-are good images of what we really desire; but [...]
Fantasy Literature and the Christian
Posted in Books and articles, contemporary culture, tagged C. S. Lewis, Lord of the Rings, Power of Story, Tolkien on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are a parent, you have probably had to consider, or will have to consider, whether your child should read Pilgrim’s Progress, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter books, or for that matter any fantasy books. All of these are considered fantasy literature by the author. If you are [...]
The fortifying value of stories
Posted in Books and articles, contemporary culture, Personal growth, tagged Lord of the Rings, Power of Story, Tolkien on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at The Children’s Hour, Ray Van Neste blogs about books for reading to children, and today he posted about The Lord of the Rings – I like this guy – and the strengthening that we can find through reading and remembering good stories. Van Neste writes this: I am struck by how often in [...]
The Power of Story: Telling the coming generation
Posted in Family, tagged Power of Story on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. (Psalm 78:4) In this series on the power of story we have come to the point in which we must consider the biblical story and [...]
The Power of Story and the Life of Faith
Posted in Family, tagged Power of Story on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Propositions are important, but they depend on the stories out of which they arise for their power, meaning, and application. Imagine having all the propositions of faith but none of the stories. They would be true, but we wouldn’t know what to do with them.” Dan Taylor made this point in his talk on The [...]
The Power of Story
Posted in Books and articles, Family, tagged children, parenting, Parenting for Joy, Power of Story on November 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Once upon a time… There was a man who had two sons… In the days of Caesar Augustus… Long, long ago in a land far, far away… In the great, green room there was telephone, and a red balloon… You may have been able to complete each of those sentences, each of those stories, because [...]
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