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jcrestwell@uuannapolis.org

What does it mean to be a people of Story?

Stories don’t just embellish our lives; they make and even dictate our lives. This might be the most important reminder of this month. Indeed, who of us hasn’t felt controlled by a story? Stuck in a story? Hopeless about the way our story will end up? Simply put, our stories often write us as much as we write them.

Or think about our current struggles with economic or racial justice. The unconscionable income gap is often described as “natural” or “the result of complex global dynamics over which we have little control.” Similarly, the story of race in our country is too often told with an “entrenched” story arc or celebrated as “having come so far.” The aim of all these cultural narratives is the same: to undermine action, and worse, to undermine our belief that action can change things.

• Option A: What’s Your Sentence?
• Option B: Zoom Your (or Their) Story
• Option C: Have the Stories that Shaped America Shaped You?
• Option D: Imagine the Story Re-Written
• Option E: Find Insight About Story in Our Recommended Resources

INCLUDED IN THIS PACKET:

• Your Questions
• Word Roots & Definitions
• Wise Words
• Music
• Videos & Podcasts
• Articles & Reflections
• Books
• Movies

Your heartache is someone else’s hope. If you make it through, somebody else is going to make it through. Tell your story.

~Kim McManus

 

Change the story, change the world.

~ Terry Pratchett