Voyage and Return. The Voyage and Return story begins with disruption, and quickly moves to confusion and disorientation. Instead of setting off on a mission or a quest, we’re trying
“The God…who answers prayers, and defends the weak, can no longer be defended.” Indeed, “[t]he God of conventional theism is dead.” This, at any rate, is critic Peter Vardy’s take
Week 3: The Quest. Christopher Booker describes the story arc of “The Quest” as the story of setting out toward something of great value, facing the unknown, being challenged in
Week 2: Rags to Riches Christopher Booker, author of “The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories” says that in every Rags to Riches story, the “riches” are symbolic. They
Huh? You want us to do what? You want us to revisit the old-line tenets of the Christian religion, the ones from which we’ve moved on? Why would we do that?