An Unexpected Journal: The Power of Story (Volume 1, #2)

What is it about a story that has the power to change a person, through a person a society, and through a society the world?It is that through story and the faculty of imagination, we connect and engage with something outside of ourselves. We can see through a lens not our own and experience circumstances not ours. This issue explores the role story plays in imaginative apologetics, explaining the Christian truth, through a collection of both essays an stories.CONTRIBUTORSAnnie Crawford: Literary Apologetics: A Spell for the Refreshment of the Spirit on why stories matter.Rebekah Valerius: Hume in Elfland. A short story on an imagined meeting between G. K. Chesterton and David Hume where worldviews, imaginations, and miracles collide. Devouring Reason: The Myth of Arachne Retold. A short story on the desire for meaning.Charlotte Thomason: For What Purpose. An essay on why C. S. Lewis wrote about Narnia.Nicole Howe: Augustine's The Confessions: The Power of Spiritual Biography. An essay on the importance of first person testimonies.Korine Martinez: Dry Bones. A short story about why we must not lose hope, dedicated to the community of Santa Fe, Texas.Annie Crawford: Finding Faith in Fairy Tales: Answers for Modern Skeptics from C. S. Lewis' The Silver Chair. An essay on why faith is a reasonable answer to uncertainty.Edward A. W. Stengel: God the Great Iconoclast: C. S. Lewis' Personal Theodicy. An essay addressing the problem of pain.Seth Myers: Lewis in La La Land. An essay on the movie La La Land and the search for significance.Karise Gililland: Sneaking Past Watchful Dragons: Imaginative Apologetics and the Games We Play. An essay on how games are a delayed apologetic.173 pagesVolume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2018