“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 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 Spirituality 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
“We sought those experiences only story can provide, experiences that our crazy college days could never give us: timelessness, transcendence, intimacy, identity,… — Sarah Arthur Romance 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
“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 Christian church 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
“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
“The basic principles of logic dictate that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time... and that a… — Sarah Arthur Telling the truth 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 Long ago 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
“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
“...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
“imagination is the image-making faculty of the intellect that helps us discover, process, and creatively express coherent meaning.” — Sarah Arthur Imagination 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
“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 Staying power 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
“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 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 Last year 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 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 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
