Prologue: The Experience of Story and Communicating Meaning

PART ONE: The Effect of a Told Story

1. How Children and Adults Enter a Story

2. The Story of Lily

3. What Does Faith Have to Do with It?

4. Right Ways and Wrong Ways to Tell a Children's Story

6. Naming I

7. Naming II

PART TWO: To Build a Story

8. Composing a Story Step by Step

9. Making Our Stories Feel Real

PART THREE: All Sorts of Stories

9. Spiritual Preparation

10. Stories of Illustration

11. Stories about the Presence and the Work of a Transforming God

12. Personal Histories

13. Factual Historical Stories

14. The Jewish Haggadah

15. Stories that Comprise an Entire Sermon

PART FOUR: Theatrics

16. Theatrical Preachers in the Past

17. Motion and Meaning I

18. Motion and Meaning II

19. Theatrics I: The Entrance

20. Theatrics II: Preacheras Actor, Sermon as Play Script

Epilogue

About the Author

Walter Wangerin Jr. is senior research professor at Valparaiso University and the author of more than forty books encompassing a wide variety of genres: fiction, essay, spirituality, children's stories, and biblical exposition. Wangerin has won the National Book Award, the New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year Award, and several Gold Medallion Awards, including best fiction awards for both The Book of God and Paul: A Novel.

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