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?
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