“You are small. Your foe is big. But your God is bigger still.” — Sarah Arthur Bigger Copy Share Image
“confirmation is one of the most important and serendipitous storytelling opportunities we in youth ministry will ever have.” — Sarah Arthur Confirmation 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
“Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER” — Sarah Arthur Catechesis 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
“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy… — Sarah Arthur Real 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we… — Sarah Arthur Next generation Copy Share Image
“from a Wesleyan perspective, we can easily see how the imagination is one of the ways the Holy Spirit works preveniently in… — Sarah Arthur Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“From ancient times discipleship training has involved learning the biblical narrative and theological language of the Christian community:” — Sarah Arthur Christian community Copy Share Image
“The lesson is this: When the road gets dark and all hope seems lost, there's nothing to do but keep going. We,… — Sarah Arthur Bilbo Copy Share Image
“Worship is about God in Christ. I suppose one could argue that if there were no people to do the worshiping, no… — Sarah Arthur Prayer Copy Share Image
“Writes Native American storyteller Ray Buckley: A child relates storytelling . . . to human contact, and that contact becomes as much… — Sarah Arthur Children Copy Share Image
“Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren’t always neatly… — Sarah Arthur Life Copy Share Image
“And that’s what we’re truly longing for. On those weekends when we’re suddenly gripped with the urge to watch all three extended… — Sarah Arthur Longing Copy Share Image
“When engaging youth with the Bible-as-story, we must be wary of our impulse to “clarify” what’s happening in a given narrative, to… — Sarah Arthur Bible Copy Share Image
“the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside… — Sarah Arthur Hobbit Copy Share Image
“Writes Webber: This conflict of style has continued in the twentieth-century debate about traditional versus contemporary worship. Traditional worship seems to be… — Sarah Arthur Pop culture 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
