“What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.” PeopleKindStoriesKnowingColorLongingAncientFortitudeMigrationAncient HistoryDislocation Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.” IfsMenGivingWellsKindEnoughStoriesSeemsRememberNamesWaterCommonBreakExampleListeningUnderstoodAspectMedicineAncientIsolationCommandmentsFeverPrecaution Author:Mark Nepo
“What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.” FirstsStoriesReligionAccountsAncientVarietyNarrativeContradictionHistorianResurrectionScholarSuspicionEvangelicalLegendary Book:Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity
“the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.” PeopleWorldStoriesAncientBundles Book:Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit Source: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
“Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.” MenArtStoriesFeelingsEarthSunEternalBuiltAncientPatternsAdmireCharmCharmingAnimated Author:Marie Bashkirtseff
“The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.” HumansKindDoeStoriesChristianThreeChristSinHellHorrorCrossesAncientDoctrineHolinessBiblicalInseparableStand AloneHorror StoriesBiblical Truth Author:Douglas Groothuis