“To those of us who pride ourselves on being “informal,” I’d encourage us to consider what story we could possibly be telling… — Sarah Arthur Next generation 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
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Christianity Copy Share Image
“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.” — Sarah Arthur Christianity 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 Copy Share Image
“Youth are natural-born storytellers. Our task in discipleship training is to steer them into a particular storytelling tradition—that is, the narrative, language,… — Sarah Arthur Christian faith Copy Share Image
“In partnership with playfulness, the imagination gives us the ability to find and make purposeful patterns and even plotlines: in other words,… — Sarah Arthur Imagination 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
“Part of the magic of the imagination is that it can conjure something out of nothing except the simple medium of words… — Sarah Arthur Language 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 Books Copy Share Image
“like story itself, worship works: it offers experiences of transcendence and timelessness, resonance and wonder, intimacy and identity, mystery and enchantment.” — Sarah Arthur Spirituality 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 Old people 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
“The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren’t there in our minds before,” — Sarah Arthur Psychology 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
“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 hunt for the “moral of the story” ultimately strips the story of its essential tone, which means it runs the danger… — Sarah Arthur Moral of the story 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is… — Sarah Arthur Writing Copy Share Image
