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Reading Is Worship 5: Identifying Weirdness-Idolatry
Brothers and sisters: loving speculative stories is not about you. Or us. Or the genre. Or, especially, Being Weird. Thatâs especially vital to recall after last weekendâs controversy over cosplay at the ACFW awards banquet.
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E. Stephen Burnett in September 2012
âThe Hobbitâ Story Group 1: An Unexpected Party
One great way to explore âThe Hobbitâ is by reading it yourself. Yet if reading stories is worship, we should also read and discuss this classic together.
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E. Stephen Burnett in September 2012
Reading Is Worship 4: Craft-Idolatry
Before discussing industry changes, editors, and manuscript proposals, we must love Godâs Story and great stories more than their craft. Otherwise we may be vulnerable to other story-related idolatries.
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E. Stephen Burnett in September 2012
Reading Is Worship 2: Experience-Worship
Itâs easy to break into othersâ idol factories. But for most readers, including myself, the worst potential idol in enjoying speculative stories may be experience. How is this self-defeating? What is the Biblical cure?
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E. Stephen Burnett in August 2012
Reading Is Worship 1: Foreword
Whatever story weâre reading, seeing, or hearing, weâre not simply critiquing or being entertained. Weâre worshiping. So what is Biblical worship? When you read epic stories, what or who do you worship, by intention or accident?
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E. Stephen Burnett in August 2012
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