Fiction That Forms Us: Stories that Inspire Us and Practices that Help Us Change

About Fiction That Forms Us: Stories that Inspire Us and Practices that Help Us Change

The need we have for story to shape us and not simply gratify us has inspired me to help shape the perspective Christians have toward fiction through conversation linking fictional stories we read to our spiritual formation and transformation into Christlikeness. What if we thought about and read fiction differently? What if instead of using it simply as either a means of escape from reality or to gratify ourselves with a good story we let it change us from the inside out? Story can impact our spiritual journey if we let it. That’s what Fiction that Forms Us is all about. We see fiction as valuable, not just in its artistic form but also in its function in our world and lives. If we are open, fiction can be not only formational but also transformational. It can inspire, beckon, and lead us to transformation.

Publisher

Kristy Lahoda

Category

arts · fiction · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Sept 2022

Latest episode

18 Mar 2024

Latest episodes

3 of 21 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Mar 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Sensible Shoes, Part 2 - The Spiritual Disciplines of Lament and Confession within the Ignatian Examen

   How do we become more receptive and responsive to the work of the Spirit within our lives? In her first novel, Sensible Shoes (https://amzn.to/49VMAMP), from the series of the same name, Sharon Garlough Brown takes her characters on a journey of practicing various spiritual disciplines. In this episode, I talk to author Sharon Garlough Brown about the spiritual disciplines of lament and confession within the Ignatian Examen. The spiritual practice is one of attentiveness that enables our receptivity by reviewing our day with God in two movements: consolation—where we noticed and responded to God today—and desolation—where we were unaware of, ignored, or rejected God during our day.

2. 

   4 Mar 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Sensible Shoes, Part 1 – A Conversation about Hannah and Charissa

   How do we overcome vices that the world teaches us to idolize? In her first novel, Sensible Shoes (https://amzn.to/49VMAMP), from the series of the same name, Sharon Garlough Brown takes the reader through the growth journey of four characters, whose lives become interwoven throughout the novel as they embark on a sacred journey with God and each other. In this episode, I talk with author Sharon Garlough Brown about her novel, where we discuss the spiritual formation of Hannah and Charissa, two of the four main characters. Just as they learn to surrender their identities to God, we, too, are invited to surrender the worldly identity we’ve taken upon ourselves in order to put on our God-given identity as beloved child of God.

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   22 Jan 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Kristin Lavransdatter, Part 2 – The Spiritual Practice of Reading

   How can reading be a spiritual practice, and why is reading Kristin Lavransdatter (https://amzn.to/3S91M32) a good choice for this practice? Learn more on this episode, where Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson and I continue our discussion on Kristin Lavransdatter in the trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter and how reading about her spiritual journey affords us an opportunity to study and come to terms with our own.

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Sensible Shoes, Part 2 - The Spiritual Disciplines of Lament and Confession within the Ignatian Examen

Published 18 Mar 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I think part of our deficit, Christy, is that as the Christian church, we are out of touch with confession and repentance as spiritual practices. We've even softened language of sin into language of brokenness, and I, we need to reclaim the grace of acknowledging ourselves as sinners, as a way of naming Jesus as the great Savior that he is. […]

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