“Story” Articles

Lucy is an idealist in search of a story, a believer desperately seeking something worthy of belief.

Alexander is redeemed, not because he deserves it, but because Eliza grants redemption to him.

Our hearts, bodies, and minds need to desire the right things, so that when we are confronted with information that plays on alternate desires and fears we are not persuaded.

In locking us into the perspective of one of these characters, 1917 ends up being a story that, through the artistry, reminds us that one life has value in the midst of millions.

His story, more than any other’s, encapsulates the ups and downs of the formation of the Avengers.

Hidden in the shadows of these movies are cosmic truths worth unearthing and revisiting as they help us understand our culture and what we can uniquely contribute to it.

The Man Who Was Thursday equips us to endure our “dissolving age” by reminding us that there is a larger plan set in motion ages ago by the author of our existence.

The standard explanation for the power of personal narrative is that out of a particular experience, the universal one can be understood, or at least felt, if only briefly.

Watching ‘Little House on the Prairie’ in Southeast D.C., where the population is 94% black, is a bit of an anomaly.

This week in whiteness: a huge snowstorm and Macklemore’s “White Privilege II”.

What Marvel has tapped into is the power of extended narrative meaning, of situating a life story within a universe governed by order.

“in ‘Decoration Day’, Isbell has done what a long line of storytellers have done before him: giving us tangible truth in a beautiful, unquantifiable parable.”

Nick Rynerson finds commonalities between the stories of Christianity and Outlaw Country.

“While Christians ought to remember that their lives participate in the grand “novel” of redemption, a story larger than we can typically see, we also need to know that this is lived out in the everyday short stories.”

“God tames us, drawing us into an embrace that asserts at once our uniqueness and our place in a grand cosmic scheme.”

“Maybe Christians need to take a page from the Drive-By Truckers and stop giving advice and tell more (true) stories.”