Image: Ariely, own work, Wikimedia Commons: imaginative reconstruction of Second Temple of Jerusalem
Creation Story One
Grand theme: Creation as the courtly dwelling place of the Most High King, of His blessed and honoured subjects, and all things bright and beautiful
Key insights: God’s bone-quaking transcendence; the birth of true storytelling; the importance of order and correct distinctions; human centrality and responsibility within the world
On the vital necessity of always beginning at the beginning
When the beginning turns out to be not quite the beginning conceived
When Word is the only word that will do
The agony and ecstasy of writing
When putting things in boxes is much more than ok
Spiritual reality. You better believe it!
The best way to tell story’s own story is with a…
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Formless Voids
On the benefits of blanks