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How to Live One’s Story
When I’ve talked about the need to defend one’s story, I’ve had in mind my experience that ill-wishers can show astonishing astuteness in picking out key elements of the life project or story they choose to attack, even before the … Continue reading →
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Tagged a story’s normative aspect, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", acting on principle, advice from women friends, Afghanistan, analyzing real life situations, attacking one’s story, Bible stories, childbirth out of wedlock, combat veteran, corporate life, corporate politics, defending one’s story, discerning one’s story, doing the right thing, driving with unchecked emotions, emotional tug of war, evil’s timetable, fictional dilemmas, fighting for one’s story, finding the normative element, gaining the world and losing your soul, God’s timetable, good and evil, heaven and hell, ideal solution, identifying with fictional characters, improving one’s story, Iraq, Israelites, Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, life's predicaments, living a story, losing one’s story, loss of a child, moral configurations, moral conflicts in fiction, Netflix’s The Virgin River, pregnancy of the other woman, real advice vs slogans, realistic idealism, reconciling realism and idealism, risking one’s job, romantic triangles, sharing grief, small town life, spiritual configurations, the achievable story, the cost of saving one’s story, the ideal as unreal, the ideal story, the lesser evil, the moral landscape, the spiritual landscape, transcendence vs reductionism, unreal solutions, virtue’s timetable, what’s the right thing?, women friends
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Putting Order Into History
Putting Order Into History Aviva Zornberg has written another of her inspired books about the Bible, this one suggestively titled, The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis. Why read the Bible? Isn’t it a just collection of stories that … Continue reading →
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Who’s In Charge Here?
Who’s In Charge Here? Today I read an essay about the meaning of life. It was written in the form of a book review by Peter Brooks of The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin. The review appears in the current … Continue reading →
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Tagged "New York Review of Books", accessing one's situation, administrative savvy, bad luck, belief systems, Bible stories, Bible study, causation in history, chance or design, cover story, death scene, discerning meaning, disciplined life, divine guidance, divine influence, Egyptian bondage, erotic temptation, failure as opportunity, failure’s lessons, family reconciliation, favorite son, fiction as instructive, fictional heroes, fictional life, fractured kneecap, fratricidal feeling, God as Co-Author, God in control, Hebrew Bible, History, housebound, how the story ends, imaginary character, intelligent choice, Joseph in Egypt, life plotline, life review, living intelligently, making lemonade out of lemons, Master Blueprint, meaning of history, meaning of life, moral framework, moral society, Moses, narrative closure, novelistic Bible stories, novelistic outlook, novelistic view, Peter Brooks’s review of The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin, phenomenological reduction, political smarts, promised land, providential influence, randomness of experience, rationalization, recognition scene, reconciliation, reunion scene, roll of the dice, self-awareness, self-correcting, selling your brother, sibling rivalry, sophisticated readers, the choices we make, the Joseph story, the novel, Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller Essays, working the room, wrongly accused
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