“Storytelling” Articles

A story can carry within it the seeds of absolute, biblically-grounded truth without ever mentioning the Bible, or Christianity, or any religious topic.

Till We Have Faces expresses the way in which Christian storytelling at its best has the potential to work upon people.

Shang-Chi’s actualization into an MCU superhero gives us a hero who comes from a culture that is more we-focused than me-focused, and I see that as a good thing.

Stories aren’t “Christian” or “not Christian.” They either tell the truth or they don’t.

Why do something so frivolous as telling stories when human lives may be at stake? Shouldn’t we be in the business of… well, surviving?

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

Pilkey’s Dog Man books are able to communicate important truths without sacrificing the quality of the story—and he did that by being honest.

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

Through stories and storytelling, we ask and examine the most basic questions about our humanity—about our loves, history, religion, philosophies, and more.

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin describes what should be familiar to Christians but is too often strange: the significance and worth of the individual human soul.

Richard Adams is gone now, but as a storyteller he lives on. He’s handy that way.

For S. D. Smith, author of The Green Ember series, ‘great fantasy . . . is all about possibility and about gateways to better seeing.’

“The difficult thing about story development for a marketing platform is that time and space are limited. Writers need to determine which elements and facts make for the most compelling piece.”