Category: storytelling
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The Story Is Still Being Told
Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama has written a simple line that I have found both irrefutable and reassuring. It’s from a piece called, “Narrative Theology” from a greater work entitled, “Hymns to Swear By” (which might be one of the greatest book titles ever). The line goes: “The answer is in the story; and the […]
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An Inside Job
“Once upon a time there were a fisherman and his wife who lived in a hovel by the sea.” So begins a story by the Brothers Grimm, a story not as well known as “Cinderella” or “Hansel and Gretel,” or many of their other tales, but just as lasting in its own right. The fisherman, […]
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“Jesus Has Shown Me…”
On a brutal winter night a knock was heard at the door of tiny church in a Serbian village. The priest, opening the door, saw standing before him a young woman. She was a Romani – a “gypsy” – from one of the nearby Roma ghettos where her people were confined. She was cold, hungry, […]