Here is a section from "Theo-storying: Reflections on God, Narrative, and Culture." If interested, it is available by CLICKING HERE. Definitions As I have said or implied previously, there is no real agreement on definitions for the terms “myth” and “parable.” The term “myth” was used in chapter 5, but the definition used (as supplied …
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The Tooth Fairy and My First Important Life Story
How many stories does a life have? I would like to suggest the following as the two possible correct answers: First, a very good answer is ZERO. Nada. Wala. We interact with the universe in near infinite ways in an approximately infinite number of moments in a span of time that connects eternities. Things happen …
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The Bible– God as Author and Actor
A story is: “an account of characters and events in a plot moving over time and space through conflict toward resolution.” The Bible obviously has characters and events, which takes place over time and space. It moves through conflict to resolution. To me, the bigger question is whether there is a plot. A plot to …
Quote of Myth, Meaning, and Ministry
One of my students put a great quote in one of his papers for our Cultural Anthropology class. “Myth is a perceived truth which is immeasurably greater than concept. It is high time that we stop identifying myth with invention or simply human imagination, with the illusions of primitive mentality. The creation of mythis among …
Theostorying as Creative Reflection
Excerpt from Chapter two of Theo-Storying: Theostorying is “the act of creative reflection on God, and our associated relationships with Him and each other, crafted artistically into the medium of the story, so as to allow the listener to join in the reflection through experiencing the story, being challenged by the story, and inspiring further …
Preaching and Teaching and Storying
Nice chapter/article in the book Preach the Word, edited by Greg Haslam. The Chapter (28) is "Preaching from Narrative" by Chris Wright. The chapter is fairly short but has good info in it... especially on the nature of narrative. Under How Do Stories Actually Work?, Wright puts some good notes. I will just give the …
Book Updates and Introspection
No... this is not my desk... I have been trying to write books, when I am not teaching or supervising, and when I am not doing administrative work for Bukal Life Care (our counseling center) or CPSP-Philippines, our chaplaincy certification board. My book writing gets slow sat times. But I may as well give a …
Adventures in Typing
I have had to cut back a little in blogging. Part of it is because of a lot of stuff going on this Summer. We have a Disaster Response Symposium that our group (Bukal Life Care) is putting together in partnership with Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary and Virginia Baptist Disaster Response. We also will be …
Books Status (Statuses? Statii?)
Have had some nice progress in the last few weeks: THEOSTORYING. I finished Revision C on it and decided to self-publish. I am rather proud of this short little book although I had the disquieting (and common) discovery of new errors in the book as soon as it went up on the Web. It is …