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Why Christians Should Read Fiction

“My friend David Mills, now executive editor at First Things, wrote a brilliant article in Touchstone several years ago about the role of stories in shaping the moral imagination of children. As he pointed out, moral instruction is not simply about knowing factually what’s right and wrong (though that’s part of it); it’s about learning to feel affection toward certain virtues and revulsion toward others. A child learns to sympathize with the heroism of Jack the Giant Killer, to be repelled by the cruelty of Cinderella’s sisters and so on.

[…] Fiction can sometimes, like Nathan the prophet’s story of the ewe lamb, awaken parts of us that we have calloused over, due to ignorance or laziness or inattention or sin.

[…] I would say that fiction, along with songwriting and personal counseling, are the most constant ways that God teaches me empathy.”

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I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES I’VE QUOTED THIS WITHOUT ANYONE NOTICING

DISHONOR ON YOUR COW

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Something you need to watch even once in your life ○ Mulan (1998)

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”

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