“Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.” HumansArtStoriesHateEvilJesusArt IsBuiltThemeGood And EvilLife And DeathUglinessLove And Hate Author:John Ortberg
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.” IfsWorldDoeStoriesBigsCausesLandEffectsCreationHigherEternalChainsTortureLife And DeathSouthernStakesBangsAfter DeathCause And EffectBaptistsCosmologyRough TimesLife After DeathSouthern BaptistCreation Of The World Author:Kyle Minor
“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."” IfsWarCharacterStoriesLastsCoursesDramaElementsSurvivalBuiltLife And DeathStakesWar Stories Author:Steven Pressfield