Eugene Peterson is the genius who completed, mostly by himself, pretty much the only readable translation of the Bible into American English. It’s called The Message. He talks about that, and about story and other things, in this video of an interview with him last year. He said:
But the imagination is almost, not quite, the same thing as faith. It’s that which connects what we see and what we don’t see and pulls us through what we see into what we don’t see. Now when that imagination then becomes/involves trust and participation it’s faith. But imagination is the training ground for that. So that’s why I think novelists, poets–we ought to ordain them.
What roles do story and imagination play in making the world a more just, peaceful place?
Posted in Art, Quote for the Day, Theology, faith, story | 8 Comments »Herb says in this thread:
speaking of putting our heads into the solution has anyone out there heard of Dorothy Day or read anything by or about her? She formed the Catholic Worker’s Movement in the 1930’s and was a huge cornerstone of social justice in the last century. She is said to have been a huge inspiration for Caesar Chavez. There has been a movement to make her a saint,whatever that’s called, but it won’t ever happen because she had a baby out of wedlock. She had a lot of communist and socialist friends before she became a Catholic but she ultimately rejected those philosophies because they lacked heart and faith (which is why she believed that they failed). Anyway she had her heart into solutions, not blame. I’m just looking for a way to get her name out there.
Has anyone ever heard of her? I highly recommend checking her out. Very inspiring. There are websites.
Including many listed in this google search
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“To encounter the cross today, we will have to embrace the suffering and pain of our world. In fact, that is the most likely place we will find Jesus again.”
- Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening