Orality And Storytelling – Matters Of The Heart

“Why story and storytelling?” Thomas Boomershine asked in his book Story Journey. “Story is a primary language of experience. Telling and listening to a story has the same structure as our experience,” he said. “The episodes of our lives takeRead more…

Orality And Storytelling – Matters Of The Heart

“Why story and storytelling?” Thomas Boomershine asked in his book Story Journey. “Story is a primary language of experience. Telling and listening to a story has the same structure as our experience,” he said. “The episodes of our lives takeRead more…

Who Teaches Whom? God Works Through His Word

I was excited.  I was testing the Joseph stories with my favorite testing group, ten of the most influential older women in the village.  They loved the stories from creation to this point, and they seemed to understand the “mainRead more…

Who Teaches Whom? God Works Through His Word

I was excited.  I was testing the Joseph stories with my favorite testing group, ten of the most influential older women in the village.  They loved the stories from creation to this point, and they seemed to understand the “mainRead more…

Not A Passing Fad

Orality will be a factor in missions strategy for the next half a century. That’s the conclusion I draw from reading  Reaching the Marginalised, the 2010 U. N. report on progress in the Education for All (EFA) campaign.  The EFARead more…

Not A Passing Fad

Orality will be a factor in missions strategy for the next half a century. That’s the conclusion I draw from reading  Reaching the Marginalised, the 2010 U. N. report on progress in the Education for All (EFA) campaign.  The EFARead more…

Experiencing The Story

Everyone loves a good story.  We remember them and talk about the stories we hear in sermons, watch on TV, and see in the movie theaters.  We sometimes wish we could live them!  Somehow, stories touch our hearts, bring aboutRead more…

Experiencing The Story

Everyone loves a good story.  We remember them and talk about the stories we hear in sermons, watch on TV, and see in the movie theaters.  We sometimes wish we could live them!  Somehow, stories touch our hearts, bring aboutRead more…

The Urgency Of Orality

There is an urgency to win the winnable. Much effort has gone into identifying the winnable and evangelizing toward planting growing churches. Within the past two decades the mission agencies have realized that while some progress was being made, thatRead more…

The Urgency Of Orality

There is an urgency to win the winnable. Much effort has gone into identifying the winnable and evangelizing toward planting growing churches. Within the past two decades the mission agencies have realized that while some progress was being made, thatRead more…