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Our Stories Shape Our Values
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Dan B. Allender
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Revelation 12:11, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Acts 22:3-8, John 1:46-47, Isaiah 61:1-3, Psalm 78:4
A close friend who started a financial loan business took thirty of his executives to the poverty- and violence-filled section of Montreal where he grew up in order to introduce them to the section of...
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How Stories Move us to Action
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Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen
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- Stories
When I was fifteen, I applied for my first job, at Eureka Baking Company, and ran into a complication. The job interview was a few miles from my high school, and I didn’t have a way to get there. I su...
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N. T. Wright and Michael Bird
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- Stories
Stories, after all, are one of the most basic modes of human life and are a characteristic expression of worldview. Human life is constituted by a series of stories, implicit and explicit, that makes ...
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Eugene Peterson
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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Jerome Bruner
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- Stories
Stories are about the vicissitudes of human intention. Trouble is what drives the drama.
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How Stories are being used by Companies to Shape Character
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David Rose
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Why a story? We all think of our lives as stories, each with a main character (us) theme, and plot (interesteing so far, but as yet unfinished). We also love to hear stories about others and even abou...
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Flannery O'Connor
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We make our home by stories.
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Peter Gruber
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- Stories
- Storytelling
Stories, it turns out, are not optional. They are essential. Our need for them reflects the very nature of perceptual experience, and storytelling is embedded in the brain itself.
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Frederick Buechner
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[T]here are only two stories that make any difference—God’s story and the human story. We all are living out different versions of those two stories with an infinite number of variations. God’s story,...
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Stories Synchronize our Brains
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Heather Box and Julian Mocine-McQueen
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- Stories
Groundbreaking work by Dr. Uri Hasson has shown that the brain of an individual listening to a story actually synchronizes with the brain of the individual telling the story—an event known as neural c...
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Stories Teach Us about How the World Works
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Steven Sloman
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A good story goes beyond just describing what actually happened. It tells us about how the world works more broadly, in ways that pertain to things that didn’t actually happen or at least haven’t happ...
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Stories in Music
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Jonathan Gottschall
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- Stories
- Music
The musicologist and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin estimates that we hear about five hours of music per day. It sounds impossible, but Levitin is counting everything: elevator music, movie scores, com...
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Stories We Tell Ourselves
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The Cruzman
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Matthew 7:1-2, John 7:24, Proverbs 3:5, Ecclesiastes 7:9
A man named Jack was driving on a dark country road one night when he got a flat tire. He saw a cabin in the woods and began to walk towards it. He told himself that the person who answered the door w...
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What Sort of a Tale Have We Fallen Into?
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J. R. R. Tolkein
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“Yes, that’s so,” said Sam. “And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose its often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: a...
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Persuading Ourselves of the Truth
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Isaiah 5:20, Galatians 6:3, 2 Timothy 3:13, Proverbs 12:15, Romans 1:21, 1 John 1:8
When we observe evil, sinful behavior from a distance, the inclination is simply to see people as acting with malicious intent. We assume they are “bad people.” But often the motivations that lead to ...
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Story as Worldview and the Example of Passover
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N. T. Wright and Michael Bird
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Stories, after all, are one of the most basic modes of human life and are a characteristic expression of worldview. Human life is constituted by a series of stories, implicit and explicit, that makes ...
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Stories Expand our Lives
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Martha Nussbaum
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We have never lived enough. Our experience is, without fiction, too confined and too parochial. Literature extends it, making us reflect and feel about what might otherwise be too distant for feeling....
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Frederick Buechner
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My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours... it is precisely through ...
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Philip Pullman
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- Stories
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
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Richard A. Horsley
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- Stories
- Freedom
There is power in bringing untold stories to light. The freedom to speak about the reality of suffering and death results in a freedom from denial.
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Eugene Peterson
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When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories...
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No More “Been-To’s”
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Eugene Peterson
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- Stories
- Parables
Several years ago I was conducting a seminar in the interpretation of Scripture in a theological seminary…Our topic that day was Jesus’ parables…One of the priests, Tony Byrnne, was a Jesuit missionar...
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Alisdair McIntyre
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'”.
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Gregory Spencer
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I believe we all need to reframe our stories, at least parts of them, in order to heal, to discard lies, to move from partial truths to richer, fuller explanations, to see our lives as God sees them.
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The Difference Between Heroes and Saints
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Lauren F. Winner
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It turns out the Christian story is a good story in which to learn to fail. As the ethicist Samuel Wells has written, some stories feature heroes and some stories feature saints and the difference bet...
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Richard Plass and James Cofield
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Hebrews 4:15-16, James 5:16, Matthew 11:28-30, Psalm 147:3, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:18
What often continues to shape our stories (interpretations) are the implicit emotional responses to our wounds. We must be willing to attend to our wounds and address the emotions embedded in our woun...
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The Dickensian Approach to Storytelling (Or, Rather, the Biblical Approach)
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Mark D. Roberts
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Genesis 1:, John 1:1-3
Sometimes great stories introduce the protagonist in the very first paragraph. In Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, for example, we are immediately introduced to Pip, the central figure of the nov...
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Changing Your Mind
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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If you really want to change, it starts with your story. If you want to change the story of your life, you need to change the stories in your mind. So what story do you want to live? Do you want to ex...
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The Land of O-Z
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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The American writer and journalist Frank Lyman Baum found that his first book began when a band of children, including his own four sons, asked him to tell a story one night in their home in Chicago. ...
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Something Permanent
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Hugh Halter
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Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26, Hebrews 8:10, 2 Corinthians 3:3, Isaiah 49:16, Romans 8:38-39, Psalm 119:11
In his book Flesh: Bringing the Incarnation Down to Earth , Hugh Halter opens with an unlikely scenario: taking his teenage daughter to get her first tattoo. While watching his daughter get “inked...

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