tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856476455649410565.post4294635728194354863..comments2023-09-01T10:00:10.674-05:00Comments on Imagination Investigation: Discernment in FictionChawna Schroederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000233082405487558noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856476455649410565.post-17855792978723094662010-04-05T15:15:41.147-05:002010-04-05T15:15:41.147-05:00Tracy~I'm not familiar with the book you are t...Tracy~I'm not familiar with the book you are talking about, but I couldn't agree more with the thought you offered. Our world--and maybe even our understanding of God--would be a much bleaker without story.Chawna Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05000233082405487558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856476455649410565.post-81143537782096169222010-04-04T00:04:13.611-05:002010-04-04T00:04:13.611-05:00This reminds me of a fabulours book I read a numbe...This reminds me of a fabulours book I read a number of years ago called "Children of a Greater God". I forget the authors name, but he was in praise of fiction (and fantasy) as way to enrich our world and even turm our heatrs toward God.Tracy Krausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05066853243062725525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856476455649410565.post-6000631694702484092010-03-31T05:43:19.671-05:002010-03-31T05:43:19.671-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856476455649410565.post-37847470448440227342010-03-30T21:50:45.327-05:002010-03-30T21:50:45.327-05:00Ah, literature. There lies the rub. When I am a ve...Ah, literature. There lies the rub. When I am a vendor, I offer contemporary Christian fiction, specializing in the sci-fi and fantasy genre. Hardly what most would consider "literature." <br /><br />Rather, literature is perceived as belonging in one of two arenas: Classic books like Tale of Two Cities or Tom Sawyer; or morality tales written over fifty years ago. I offer neither. To most, what I offer is considered "fun reading," which is not part of a core study material. It is extra, something to keep voracious readers busy at best.<br /><br />Never mind that some (although admittedly not all) the books I offer are classics in the making, and very few of the books on my list are pure "mind candy"--for a book to land on my table, it almost always has to combine good solid writing with great content. Nevertheless, that is how I am perceived, and thus I've had to learn to offer an explanation for my presence.Chawna Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05000233082405487558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5856476455649410565.post-64401505346958901652010-03-29T22:57:14.925-05:002010-03-29T22:57:14.925-05:00Chawna,
I'm baffled that you'd need to def...Chawna,<br />I'm baffled that you'd need to defend reading fiction at an educational conference? Isn't literature a part of education? I graduated college with a degree in English and I was trained to teach students about literature--both how to analyze and discern the message of the story, but also to learn from quality stories just as you argued...to experience things through the characters that we haven't encountered, and how this allows us to imagine and think upon subjects beyond our current level of experience.<br />Isn't that part of school? Literature?Brandon Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03850891283015240498noreply@blogger.com