“Adolescents are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world-changing God to fall in love with; and if they do not find that God… — Sarah Arthur Adolescents Copy Share Image
“No man is saved by his imagination,” quipped nineteenth-century Scottish preacher George Morrison. “It is a question if any man is saved… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“All of us use our imaginations when it comes to faith, and all of us struggle to stay imaginatively healthy in this… — Sarah Arthur Creativity Copy Share Image
“The Christian community first came up with theological abstractions because eventually we had to speak in shorthand about the complexity of God’s… — Sarah Arthur Christian community Copy Share Image
“In the end, there is a normative story that we live into as a church: the story God is telling through scripture,… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell… — Sarah Arthur Poetry Copy Share Image
“In short, you can’t have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying… — Sarah Arthur Balanced life Copy Share Image
“To use C. S. Lewis’s distinction, perhaps we could even say that for the evangelistic youth minister, it’s about truth; for the… — Sarah Arthur Truth Copy Share Image
“As I look back on my seven years in full-time youth ministry, the experiences that were the most formative for youth weren’t… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“But when a confirmand stands up in front of our congregation on Confirmation Sunday, we’re not asking her to talk about what… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are,… — Sarah Arthur Christian Copy Share Image
“We’ve forgotten how to humbly interact with a story on its own terms; we’ve lost the ability to wonder, especially when it… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“The idea behind reciting a creed is reasonably simple. If you do not say the right lines, you may not be in… — Sarah Arthur Creed Copy Share Image
“Funny how it all turns to theological babble the more we try to identify just exactly what we’re talking about with this… — Sarah Arthur Business Copy Share Image
“For the story that shapes a child’s universe also shapes the child—and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a… — Sarah Arthur Children Copy Share Image
“Story has staying power. We remember the illustrations from Sunday’s sermon for months afterward, but by coffee hour we’re already struggling to… — Sarah Arthur Pastor Copy Share Image
“This is why the apostles get jailed or stoned or hauled before various proconsuls and vice-whatevers. Not because they’re advancing some kind… — Sarah Arthur Apostles Copy Share Image
“liturgy is not a particular style of worship or some outmoded preference on the part of old people; it’s a timeless pattern… — Sarah Arthur Liturgy Copy Share Image
“When well told and well lived by the storytellers, worship, like story itself, offers opportunities for the imagination to be nurtured and… — Sarah Arthur Prayer Copy Share Image
“If imagination, as we’ve said, is the “region of discovery,” story is the wardrobe door, sending our young people “further in” and… — Sarah Arthur Discovery Copy Share Image
“Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author’s subjectivity and personal slant, the best… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“Part of the magic of the imagination is that it can conjure something out of nothing except the simple medium of words… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories,… — Sarah Arthur Christian community Copy Share Image
“To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to… — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“If their imaginations are starved, you feed them; if they are thirsty, you give them something to drink. Trust the Spirit to… — Sarah Arthur Nurturing Copy Share Image
“writes Madeleine L’Engle, “in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we… — Sarah Arthur Self conscious Copy Share Image
“Religious language,” write the authors of Soul Searching, “is like any other language: to learn how to speak it, one needs first… — Sarah Arthur Books Copy Share Image
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected… — Sarah Arthur Faith Copy Share Image
“Youth in our Sunday school class can repeat almost verbatim some obscure parable we dramatized last year, and yet they forget the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“if there is no light by which we see, no Great Story that illumines our days—and no Storyteller—then we have no source… — Sarah Arthur Light Copy Share Image
“Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the… — Sarah Arthur Story Copy Share Image
“It’s easy for our young people to think of the biblical stories as taking place long, long ago and far, far away,… — Sarah Arthur History Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the cavalier attitude many pastors and religious educators take on this point, the Bible’s narrative ingredients do matter for how… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“If we want the next generation to know where they came from and thus who they are, we tell them stories so… — Sarah Arthur Next generation Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the… — Sarah Arthur Christian life Copy Share Image
“The cure for competing narratives is nothing more or less than the Apostles’ Creed. Yes, I’ll say that again: the creed is… — Sarah Arthur Storytelling Copy Share Image
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than… — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“Somehow the church has forgotten what it knew for so long: story goes beyond simply illustrating some spiritual point or other; it… — Sarah Arthur Happiness Copy Share Image
