“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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“As we already said, authors receive their ideas from somewhere; and in the case of holy scriptures, that somewhere is the mind… — Sarah Arthur 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 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, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur 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 by the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we believe it—because… — Sarah Arthur 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 seek them… — Sarah Arthur 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 Christian life.” — 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 by which… — Sarah Arthur 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 story that… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell me a… — Sarah Arthur 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 “still further… — Sarah Arthur 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 one last… — Sarah Arthur 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 about everything… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
