“Stories” Articles

Good stories point us to Christ—to who He is, what He loves, what He’s done, and what He’s yet to do.

The deaths of young celebrities lead to collective shock and grief because of the unique roles performers hold in society.

In writing fiction, Taylor Swift has somehow managed to ponder the deeper truths of love and loss and life.

Chernobyl has acted as a reminder to me that social media hasn’t made people crazy, paranoid, or stupid—people have always been willing to spread misinformation, lies, and conspiracies when it suits an agenda like a political or religious ideology.

The lesson is that if we don’t tell the true stories, if we fail to pass them down to future generations, the lies will rush into the vacuum and take over.

Jonathan Pageau’s channel, The Symbolic World, provides a means for the baptism of the evangelical imagination into this symbolic life.

Tomi Adeyemi’s success with Children of Blood and Bone is especially important for our cultural moment.

We must also educate ourselves, immersing ourselves in the stories and experiences of the Black communities and individuals in America.

If we are willing, our bookshelves and our readings lists can have an incarnational bent.

What you will find in Never Have I Ever is a surprisingly profound look at grief through the eyes of teenagers.

It’s in those moments that the internet feels like a good place to be—a place to reveal how a single story written by an English chap in the 1950s has touched and shaped thousands of lives for the better. 

Formulas are not the problem with The Rise of Skywalker, but we might say lack of formulaic vision for the whole trilogy.

There’s an insatiable appetite behind this ever-increasing desire for deeper escape and stories that never end.

Titanic is in the hot seat for Persuasion‘s Never Seen series finale.

As our only means of consuming entertainment, [binging] may turn us into fevered people impoverished for art that satisfies as only the True, the Beautiful, and the Good can.

The soaring popularity of Critical Role among the geek world was, and is, rooted in both the beauty of their tale and who they are as people.