Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories

by Daniel Taylor

Overview

TELL ME A STORY explores the story-shaped nature of our lives. We are born, live, and die within stories These stories shape how we see ourselves, the world, and our place in it. The first great storytellers in our lives are home, church, school, and popular culture. Knowing and embracing healthy stories are crucial to living rightly and well.

This book investigates the relationship between stories and meaning in life, the difference between character and personality, the ability of story to make connections between things, the power of story to bring about a desired future, how stories create community and a sense of belonging, and how broken stories can be healed.

Drawing on a wide range of stories-literary, popular, and personal. TELL ME A STORY offers profound insight, encouragement, and inspiration. It includes a series of questions designed to help readers identify the important stories in their own lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780970651105
Publisher:	Bog Walk Press
Publication date:	06/30/2011
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Daniel Taylor, professor of literature at Bethel University (Minnesota), has written six books, including The Myth of Certainty, Letters to My Children, and In Search of Sacred Places. Dr. Taylor is co-founder of The Legacy Center, an organization devoted to helping individuals preserve their stories and values, and a contributing editor of Books and Culture. Speaks frequently.