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“Our mission as thinking Christians who seek to love God with our minds should find expression in the way that we read.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
“One of the ways that Christianity can contribute to literary criticism and hermeneutics is by emphasizing its specific distinctives: connectedness, hope, and purposeful meaning.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
“Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them.”
― A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
― A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
“The Christian gospel especially is at its heart a living story, not an abstract system.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
“Each theme employs elements of the Restoration Narrative, opening up each work for serious theological consideration. T. S. Eliot once observed that “mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.”17 The greatest writers in the world have stolen the greatest Story ever told, time and time again. Christians should recognize this Story and seize the opportunity presented by this towering influence.”
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
― God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative
J. Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at J. Ryan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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