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Our Stories Shape Our Values
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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Stories are inherently interesting. Discourse we tolerate; to story we attend. Story entertains, informs, involves, motivates, authenticates, and mirrors existence. By creating a narrative world, stor... -
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From [age three] on out, stories will not only entertain you, they will explain you to others and to yourself. -
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Stories Teach Us about How the World Works
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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Story as Worldview and the Example of Passover
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
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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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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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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Changing Your Mind
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
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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The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story. -
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Virtue as Part of Our Story
Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue reconnected thinking about ethics back to virtue by connecting virtue to the story a life is a part of. In order to know how we ought to live, we first need to answ... -
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The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened. -
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. -
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Fiction does not ask us to believe things,” he points out, “but to imagine them.” “Imagining the heat of the sun on your back is about as different an activity as can be from believing that it will be... -
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Schoolwork through Different Experiences
In the fall of 2009, I was invited to go on a month-long speaking tour throughout Africa. During the trip, a CEO from South Africa named Salim took me to Soweto, a township just outside of Johannesbur... -
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A God Apart in Genesis
In Understanding Genesis , Nahum Sarna argues that a critical distinction between Genesis and the stories of contemporary pagan societies is that Genesis is not myth . Myth is associated with ritual... -
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It Was Churchill
In the 1990s Winston Churchill’s granddaughter, Celia Sandys, set out to write a book about her famous grandfather. She intended to dedicate one chapter to the eight months Churchill spent in South Af... -
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Our Changing Landscape
What we call “nature” isn’t the same nature our great-grandparents knew. Even if they lived as far south as Baltimore, they could cut eighteen-inch blocks of ice off ponds in the winter to cool their ... -
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The Origin of the Word "Sincere"
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always enjoyed hearing stories about the origins of certain words. One of these words is the “sincere.” While there are some questions about the history’s authenticity... -
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Describe Your First Encounter with Race
Whenever I lead a training session on cultural identity—particularly when there’s a strong white presence—I begin with this question: “Describe the first encounter you remember having with race.” Most... -
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What’s Unique about Christianity?
During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? O... -
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For Dummies
Mark Batterson met John Kilcullen at a writers' conference where they shared their stories. Kilcullen’s massively popular “For Dummies” series of books began with a single comment: “Do you have an... -
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Seeing God in the Heavens
Many of us westerners are familiar with the stories of the first Apollo missions and the “space race” with Russia. What we are less familiar with is the experience from the other side, from the Russia... -
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Embracing Failure
A common trait of human beings is a fear of failure. Most of us find ways of coping with it, but whenever failure rears its ugly head, it’s difficult not to experience the sting of feeling like we are... -
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Common Things and Cracks in the Surface of Reality
The child became a man and the man became a preacher whose sermons were full of commonplace things: seeds and nets, coins and fishes, lilies of the field, and birds of the air. Wherever he was, he had... -
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The Truth Is Out There
We are a couple of decades past the vastly popular initial run of the TV show The X-Files, but its themes continue to resonate. In the show, two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigate par... -
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The Stalker
Editor’s Note: This story is often told as a true story, when in fact it is probably fictitious. Nevertheless, there is a significant illustrative point: sometimes the things we fear most may in fact ... -
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Skin is Meant to be Touched
Brenda Peterson is an author whose work crosses multiple genres, including fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. In an essay entitled In Praise of Skin, Peterson shares a true story from her own ... -
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A Rich New Perspective
In a short story, Jhumpa Lahiri writes about Mr. Kapasi, a man who translates to a city physician what rural Indian people say about their illnesses. When Mr. Kapasi complains to a friend, Mrs. Das, t...
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Ruth
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (4)
- Ps 2 (2)
- Ps 8 (12)
- Ps 9 (2)
- Ps 10 (1)
- Ps 13 (1)
- Ps 14 (2)
- Ps 15 (1)
- Ps 16 (4)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (1)
- Ps 19 (26)
- Ps 22 (5)
- Ps 23 (16)
- Ps 24 (7)
- Ps 25 (5)
- Ps 27 (13)
- Ps 29 (1)
- Ps 31 (1)
- Ps 32 (7)
- Ps 33 (2)
- Ps 34 (32)
- Ps 36 (4)
- Ps 37 (8)
- Ps 39 (2)
- Ps 40 (2)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (11)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 46 (19)
- Ps 49 (2)
- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (28)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 55 (1)
- Ps 63 (1)
- Ps 65 (3)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 71 (1)
- Ps 72 (1)
- Ps 73 (5)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 77 (2)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 82 (7)
- Ps 84 (1)
- Ps 85 (2)
- Ps 86 (4)
- Ps 88 (1)
- Ps 90 (7)
- Ps 92 (1)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 95 (1)
- Ps 96 (5)
- Ps 98 (1)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (2)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 103 (9)
- Ps 104 (5)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (2)
- Ps 107 (1)
- Ps 111 (2)
- Ps 115 (1)
- Ps 116 (2)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (4)
- Ps 119 (24)
- Ps 121 (5)
- Ps 123 (1)
- Ps 126 (1)
- Ps 127 (3)
- Ps 128 (1)
- Ps 130 (3)
- Ps 131 (1)
- Ps 133 (3)
- Ps 136 (4)
- Ps 139 (26)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 144 (2)
- Ps 145 (4)
- Ps 146 (2)
- Ps 147 (4)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (4)
- Prov 3 (30)
- Prov 4 (8)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (2)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (1)
- Prov 10 (4)
- Prov 11 (6)
- Prov 12 (5)
- Prov 14 (8)
- Prov 15 (7)
- Prov 16 (13)
- Prov 17 (5)
- Prov 18 (12)
- Prov 19 (7)
- Prov 20 (2)
- Prov 21 (4)
- Prov 22 (6)
- Prov 23 (2)
- Prov 24 (3)
- Prov 25 (3)
- Prov 27 (5)
- Prov 28 (7)
- Prov 29 (7)
- Prov 31 (5)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (20)
- Isa 2 (2)
- Isa 5 (1)
- Isa 6 (14)
- Isa 7 (3)
- Isa 9 (13)
- Isa 11 (2)
- Isa 25 (4)
- Isa 26 (8)
- Isa 28 (1)
- Isa 29 (2)
- Isa 30 (8)
- Isa 33 (2)
- Isa 40 (25)
- Isa 41 (15)
- Isa 42 (3)
- Isa 43 (16)
- Isa 44 (5)
- Isa 45 (6)
- Isa 46 (1)
- Isa 47 (1)
- Isa 48 (5)
- Isa 49 (3)
- Isa 50 (2)
- Isa 51 (1)
- Isa 53 (21)
- Isa 54 (3)
- Isa 55 (37)
- Isa 57 (4)
- Isa 58 (5)
- Isa 60 (3)
- Isa 61 (13)
- Isa 64 (8)
- Isa 65 (1)
- Isa 66 (3)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Amos
Nahum
Zephaniah
Matthew
- Matt 1 (7)
- Matt 2 (4)
- Matt 3 (4)
- Matt 4 (9)
- Matt 5 (47)
- Matt 6 (43)
- Matt 7 (13)
- Matt 8 (5)
- Matt 9 (5)
- Matt 10 (8)
- Matt 11 (15)
- Matt 12 (6)
- Matt 13 (21)
- Matt 14 (10)
- Matt 15 (6)
- Matt 16 (9)
- Matt 17 (5)
- Matt 18 (10)
- Matt 19 (12)
- Matt 20 (4)
- Matt 21 (6)
- Matt 22 (16)
- Matt 23 (12)
- Matt 24 (5)
- Matt 25 (20)
- Matt 26 (5)
- Matt 27 (7)
- Matt 28 (17)