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$\"\"$ <\/a>At GospelFutures, Neil Williams\u2019s next post is up on the power of story for providing coherence for the human drama. He addressed \u201cWhy Story\u201d in his previous post<\/a>. Today he looks at the Christian story specifically.<\/p>\n

As far back as we have written records, humans have used stories to figure out their world and to help them understand what it means to be human. We are story-telling creatures\u2014from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

A question that remains is, \u201cwhy this story?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Why choose this story to live by? Why privilege this story? This is a non-trivial question. For one thing, if we were raised in a different time or place\u2014Morocco, Sri Lanka, India, China, or Greece\u2014we would have likely accepted a different religious story\u2014be it Judaism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Buddhism<\/a>, Hinduism, or the Roman and Greek pantheons. And we would have likely used similar reasoning to explain why we prefer and privilege our particular religious story.<\/em><\/p>\n

To read this entire post, visit the GospelFutures blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neil Williams (D.Th., University of South Africa) is a writer and speaker, and $\"\"$ <\/a> lives\u00a0outside Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. He\u00a0is\u00a0ordained\u00a0in the Reformed Church in America, and\u00a0is\u00a0particularly interested in inter-personal transformation and the dialogue between theology, the sciences, and music. His most recent work is\u00a0The maleness of Jesus: is it good news for women?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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