Beecken Center executive director Sheri D. Kling is among the scheduled speakers for the inaugural New Story Festival in Austin, Texas, March 29-31. Her music-driven presentation, “Imaginal: Dying and Rising in Story and Song,” will weave the ancient myth of the Sumerian goddess Inanna with the scientific story of a caterpillar’s metamorphosis into a butterfly to show how … [Read more...] about Seeking a Better Story
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Cubist Testimonies
From the website of the Church in WalesFrom a jelly fish to a singing superstar — a wide variety of sources have influenced people’s journeys of faith, judging by their You Cube stories.The Church in Wales sent 1,000 cubes out to parishioners across Wales ahead of its landmark conference this weekend, asking them to decorate them with items to show their stories of faith.The … [Read more...] about Cubist Testimonies
Folksy Deliverance
By Douglas LeBlancIn the opening sentence of his first published fiction, the Rev. Brewster Hastings turns directly to a topic not normally associated with Episcopalians: “The exorcism was not going well.”That deadpan opening sentence of The Only Way Out for Henry Clatt, which Hastings published through WestBow Press, is a fitting introduction. Readers who want the gory details … [Read more...] about Folksy Deliverance