I recently took Harry for a walk around our neighborhood of Golden Hill. Ending up at a park where Harry proceeded to pee on roughly 96 different bushes, I had a perfect view overlooking downtown San Diego. There were lights everywhere, the highways were packed full of cars speeding to their next event…everyone seemed to …
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Kevin and Charlie: Last Chapter
This is the last part of the story. Thanks for jumping in and I hope it can be a helpful example of how to start putting storytelling to use within your teaching context. Feel free to “pirate” this story, amend it for your audience and initiate some dialog on the myth of Redemptive Violence, Forgiveness …
Kevin and Charlie: Part 4
If you’re just jumping into the story, catch up here: Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 In the past month, Charlie hadn’t brought up Jesus’ third way a single time. Yet Kevin couldn’t get it out of his mind. So much of what he knew about “Christians,” the Bible, and the responses of Christians …
Kevin and Charlie: Part 3
Today, we move from the nitty-gritty character/plot development of the first two parts and move into the art of integrating Scripture/theology into the story. If you missed early parts of the story, here you go: Intro, Part 1, Part 2. The next day, a well-dressed older fellow walked into Kevin’s jail cell. Kevin hadn’t said …
Kevin and Charlie: Part 2
The story continues…Check these out if you missed them: Intro and Kevin and Charlie: Part 1 Kevin was eighteen years old when he heard about a rumor going around the high school about his fifteen-year-old sister, Tara. Some of Kevin’s friends had heard an eighteen-year-old boy named Cory calling Tara a whore and saying that …