“When was the last time you heard a long passage from a novel read aloud during Sunday school or worship? Or how about the last time a youth pastor subverted his or her “talk” through satire or parable rather than… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“The youth-pastor-as-bard is charged with expressing the language, narrative, and culture of the kingdom to listeners who think they already know what the kingdom is all about. For the leader among quasi-believers who are bored and mostly apathetic, who think… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.” — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than among Christians… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
“from a Wesleyan perspective, we can easily see how the imagination is one of the ways the Holy Spirit works preveniently in our lives—before… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share
