the biggest stories are shaped by structure
Story makes things stick—if you want people to remember a truth or understand an idea, tell a story.
But sometimes we don’t see the story or understand it’s power because it’s in a setting or a shape that feels foreign, because it is long ago and far way. I retell the stories of scripture with a vivid textural feel to help you see the setting of the stories and feel their power.
Here I blog about the shape of stories, their structure and how the setting changes how I see The Story.
“Samuel.” Samuel lifted his head. “Samuel.” The boy rolled off his sleeping pallet and slipped through the heavy brocade of the lamp-lit sanctuary. He ran, light on the balls of his feet, to the end of the curtained corridor where the high priest Eli slept on a cot. The old man was loosing his eyesight. […]
“I wish you were giving another sermon,” is not something you expect to hear from a sixteen year old in a gritted baseball cap. But it wasn’t my speaking ability—it was the story. I remember the moment the story first grabbed me. The Book of God proclaimed the title on of a dingy set of […]
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