Cultivating the Christian Imagination

My great-grandfather was the only cowboy I ever knew. He was an actual cowboy, a real pagan one, too, until God rustled him. The cowboy chose the rest of his life to make Christ known in South America. Even in his retirement home he was looking for a friend to discuss theology with. He is the undisputed spiritual patriarch of the Bundy family. He passed when I was a child, so one may say I barely knew him. But my family still tells his stories at barbecues and graduations and

How have you seen stories sneak past someone's defenses? Perhaps they wouldn't hear what you had to say, but they would let you tell a story. Why do you think stories have that sneakability? I want to hear your stories and thoughts. I'll let C.S. Lewis lead the way: "Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ?... But supposing that by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of thei

What is the connection between the imagination and religion? Janine Langan writes, "My contention is that there is nothing more fundamental than the imagination, and that our loss of respect for it is directly linked to religious apathy" (63). Edited by Leland Ryken, The Christian Imagination (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 2002). #Imagination

The Kindling: A small quote for a big fire “I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a storyteller….God had written not so much a poem but rather a play; a play He had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” G.K. Chesterton, Heretics/Orthodoxy (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2000), 219, 234. #Chesterton #TheKindling #TheDivineDramatist