Stories Written in Blood

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https://guelph-real-estate.ca/30wobi764a Not long ago my wife, Amy, posted a picture of my night stand on her blog.

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https://www.marineetstamp.com/mhtnky43x C.S. Lewis’s Quotables.

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https://alldayelectrician.com/1zhext1 And, N.T. Wright’s Matthew for Everyone.

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source link An anonymous blogger saw this picture and posed this question directly to me (and indirectly to all Christians):

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https://danivoiceovers.com/h95jjdmuer0 My first mental response was of course immature, arrogant, condescending, and reactionary:

follow link How dare you try and pigeonhole!  I peruse the Fiction and Literature section at Barnes and Noble more frequently than I do the Spiritual Devotion section.

https://getdarker.com/editorial/articles/cdij7krf I have a undergraduate and graduate degree in English literature.

https://penielenv.com/wm8wzv0b69 You name a classic or contemporary author, and I’ll bet I have studied him or her.  Shakespeare.  Check.  O’ Connor.  Check.  Camus.  Check.  Kerouac.  Check.

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follow link So after some reflection, this is how I responded to this blogger.

https://geolatinas.org/up8su7r5 Simply put: I’m interested in reading any story that is written in blood.

https://getdarker.com/editorial/articles/zr6mqxak4fe Take East of Eden by John Steinbeck, for example. Now that’s a book written in blood. Who of us hasn’t felt an acute sense of displacement? It’s not that we are living in the wrong place; just the wrong way. Or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.  I’ve got a son now and the thought of dying for Silas – not a iota of fear. But the thought of Silas having to live beyond my dying love – nothing but fear.

Tramadol Online Overnight Visa Any story then that struggles with what it means to be human, what it means to walk upright in a bent world, what it means to live within tensions and questions and doubts – that’s a story I want to read and participate in because it is written in the author’s blood. Whether it is written by a Christian. Or agnostic. Or atheist. Or Buddhist. Or Muslim.  Because all truth is God’s truth.  And part of the theology of common grace includes the animating belief that when we tell the truth about our experience of being human, regardless of our “worldview” or religious belief system, somehow, in some mysterious way, a “gleam of the evengelium”, as J.R.R. Tolkien argued, shines through.

J.R.R. Tolkein, smoking his famous pipe.

https://www.mreavoice.org/yk9w2ie So I pose this contagion of questions for you to ponder – Christian or not:

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https://www.elevators.com/iafx70bkap7 What narratives have shaped the way you understand the narrative we live in?

go to site No doubt, I’m always looking for a good read. And by good, I mean a story where the author simply has the courage as Fredrick Buechner puts it,  to “open a vein.”

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