“The Bible is alive; it is our students who are dead and must be resurrected. Story stirs the sleeping; scripture raises the… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“Something more is going on with Jesus’ storytelling than clarification or embellishment: he’s out to rock our world.” — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Imagination Copy Share Image
“The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren’t there in our minds before,” — Sarah Arthur Magical Copy Share Image
“Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.” — Sarah Arthur Christian faith Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, church leadership too often capitulates to youthful and parental pressure that would make confirmation as fluffy, fun, and noncommittal as possible.” — Sarah Arthur Leadership Copy Share Image
“Youth are natural-born storytellers. Our task in discipleship training is to steer them into a particular storytelling tradition—that is, the narrative, language,… — Sarah Arthur Christian faith Copy Share Image
“We sought those experiences only story can provide, experiences that our crazy college days could never give us: timelessness, transcendence, intimacy, identity,… — Sarah Arthur Experiences Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-story works. It works in all the ways that story itself works: in offering transcendence, identity, intimacy, timelessness, wonder, and so… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.” — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“vital role of the imagination in spiritual formation is to help a young person make meaningful connections between the church, the world,… — Sarah Arthur Imagination Copy Share Image
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is… — Sarah Arthur Meaning Copy Share Image
“a story’s plot has a beginning, middle, and end consisting of a sequence of events developed around a particular conflict or gradual… — Sarah Arthur War Copy Share Image
“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of… — Sarah Arthur Creativity Copy Share Image
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we… — Sarah Arthur Broken hearted Copy Share Image
“The hunt for the “moral of the story” ultimately strips the story of its essential tone, which means it runs the danger… — Sarah Arthur Moral of the story Copy Share Image
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“...we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into… — Sarah Arthur Longing Copy Share Image
“The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a… — Sarah Arthur Logic Copy Share Image
“...God sent His Prince, Jesus, into rebel territory to conquer evil and free us to be true citizens of the Kingdom again...… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197 I believe in the life of the word, the diplomacy of food. I believe in salt-thick ancient… — Sarah Arthur Creed Copy Share Image
“There are bad stories and good stories, bad spells and good spells. The gospel, as we’ve already said, is the “good spell.”… — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“If only life were more on the scale of Orlando Bloom taking down the giant Oliphaunt in The Return of the King… — Sarah Arthur Another world Copy Share Image
“But at some point it becomes obvious that, ultimately, the adventure of faith is the most sensible thing to do, and in… — Sarah Arthur Adventure Copy Share Image
“It's a theme born out of the Christian faith rather than a pagan understanding of the universe. Both views agree that we… — Sarah Arthur Christian faith Copy Share Image
“Like Gandalf, God knows the battle going on inside our hobbitlike selves, the wrestling match between the Baggins and the Took. The… — Sarah Arthur Adventure Copy Share Image
“like story itself, worship works: it offers experiences of transcendence and timelessness, resonance and wonder, intimacy and identity, mystery and enchantment.” — Sarah Arthur Spirituality Copy Share Image
“To the God-hungry imagination, the fallen world is a crummy place much of the time; we rightly long for the land at… — Sarah Arthur Fallen world Copy Share Image
“let’s get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less “lies.” It’s the world we Christians inhabit as “people of… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis said it this way: “In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. . .… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has… — Sarah Arthur Lion Copy Share Image
“Our songs and our stories do more than persuade others that an order exists: they build the house; they weave a world;… — Sarah Arthur Music Copy Share Image
“In partnership with playfulness, the imagination gives us the ability to find and make purposeful patterns and even plotlines: in other words,… — Sarah Arthur Imagination Copy Share Image
