The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, n...
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 are constantly checking our watches for chronological time.10
Enter Madeleine. Here was a Christian author who could function quite unperturbedly from inside paradox, who dared to question the assumption that all things must be either/or. Why can’t it be both/an...
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself...
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith, faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do mat...
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. Walking on Water
Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren’t always neatly tied together, because neither are the loose ends of our lives....