✍️ III. The Christian Vocation in CreationYour shift from "i...

✍️ III. The Christian Vocation in CreationYour shift from "important" adult teaching to imaginative fiction for children is not a step down in purpose—it's a step sideways into a different sphere of Christian creative calling.

✍️ III. The Christian Vocation in Creation

Your shift from "important" adult teaching to imaginative fiction for children is not a step down in purpose—it's a step sideways into a different sphere of Christian creative calling.

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To be human is to inhabit some narrative enchantment of the world. Christian worship fuels our imaginations with a biblical picture of a world that, in the words of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, is “charged with the grandeur of God.”

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B. The Absence of Dark Analogies

If Christians retreat entirely from this genre, the field is left open to other worldviews. When imagination is nourished exclusively by stories that embrace nihilism, despair, or moral relativism, those are the "analogies" that become "encoded" in the child's mind.

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