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Imagination

A collection of 4 posts

On Books & Writing

Turn and Face the Strange: a challenge to artists and churches

In April, I closed the Sacrament & Story conference in Seattle by posing a challenge to artists and churches, and by addressing a question that has kept you awake at night, I'm sure: If you go into space, will your DNA be rewritten and turn you into an alien?

On Movies & Media

Let's talk trash: Toy Story... 4-ky!

This is Part Two of Looking Closer's review of Toy Story 4. Part One was posted previously. Note: Part Three concerns the ending of the film, and includes spoilers. Forky might have just become another piece of plastic polluting a park or an ocean. He began as a

Invitation, not coercion

On Books & Writing

Invitation, not coercion

James P. Carse, from Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility: Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not

Name Your Elephant

Do you like chase scenes? This is a story about a chase. It's a pursuit that's lasted for years. It involves a mysterious red elephant. I've written a two-part article about it, and the first part is up today at ConversantLife.com. Read it,