Story truth

From Tim O’Brien: “[S]tory-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.” That quotation comes from a blog post whose author argues that fiction might well be the best way to tell God’s story. Megan McKenna once said something similar, that “all of the stories in the Bible are true, and some of them really happened.” I think […]

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Visio divina

The Benedictine community originated lectio divina, which is a practice of slow, meditative, reflective engagement with scripture. The Benedictine community of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville has been the source of the first hand illuminated Bible in 500 years — the St. John’s Bible. They have also explored a form of lectio that works with

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Bethlehem Lutheran stories

Ben Cieslik, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, has been gradually inviting people into telling their stories in the context of the community. It’s a great example of sharing individual stories contextualized in the midst of the scripture the community is studying. Here’s one of the videos, but you can find at the church’s blog.

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The value of family stories

Bruce Feiler has an interesting piece in the NYTimes in which he describes the power of family narrative. His work mirrors much that has been written about in digital storytelling. I particularly appreciated this comment: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability

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CDS starts a blog!

The Center for Digital Storytelling, a community of people and resources that have been at the heart of the digital storytelling movement for more than 20 years, has just begun a blog — the Storycenter Blog – which promises to be a rich resource for all of us who are trying to do this work

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Power of sharing stories

Here’s a powerful example of what can happen with a community shares its stories more broadly, using digital tools and social media. …sharing our stories allows us to share our lives. Sharing our stories allows us to create new partnerships like the one that we now have with people of neighboring Christ Church, Oyster Bay

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Storytelling as sacrament

Although this blog post is not about digital storytelling, I think the points she is making apply equally well to digital stories. It might be that a congregation such as this could even consider recording the stories as they are told, and sharing them in wider contexts!

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