Editor’s Note: In July of 2012, Jennifer Holberg posted a blog on this site called “Nourishing Narratives.” Eleven years later, she’s developed those thoughts into a book being released this month. To be sure, she read aloud to us each day after lunch, and we had instruction in reading and spelling and the rest. This was a lesson of which, even at eleven years old, I’d been an eager pupil for a long time. Thus, stories both encourage and constrain us, depending on our ability to critically interpret and respond to these narratives. Not only because, as critic Henry Zylstra has argued, the discernment of stories should generally give us “more to be Christian with” [3] but because the old, old story must be fundamental to our very understanding of the world.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 10, 2023 05:59 UTC