From Harry Potter and Pilgrim’s Progress to neo-paganism and Christian Nationalism, imaginative storytelling can buttress truth or belie it. The Biblical Story awakens us from apocryphal enchantments to the reality of God’s redemptive history. With insights from Tolkien, Lewis and the 2013 movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, we illustrate and offer practical examples for cultivating faithful Storiness to enchant your everyday life to the glory of God.
James Roland is a pastor and writer who lives with his wife Heidi at Littlefield Abbey outside Storm Lake, Iowa. If not reading literature or history, he’s tinkering in the workshop. For 30 years, he’s ventured as a wilderness guide, sailor and world traveler, but really wants to be Indiana Jones when he grows up.
Hope Church, 2015 W. Milwaukee Ave. Storm Lake IA 50588
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