164: The Gospel of Story
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Public perception of Christianity has soured in the past decade -- and so has most of the famous "Christian" nonfiction -- titles such as The Shack, Love Wins, Blue Like Jazz, Love Does, Wild at Heart have aged like milk. In contrast, Brian asks Nate why his own nonfiction seems so well suited for the negative world. Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl is now a barrel-aged 15-year whiskey, the gospel of story. Death by Living is a bold declaration of your mortality in a time when "normal" dreams are shattering. The guys discuss why storytelling is kingdom work, and why the Gospel of Story is a key skill for every Christian living now to develop. Nate also addresses readers who don't like his writing, and that one secular reviewer who, days after publishing a positive review, accosted Nate with this realization of how Christianity had tiptoed into his books: "You pulled that C.S. Lewis s***." Find the matching hardcover sets of each book at ndwilson.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:04.4 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees. |
| 0:06.9 | I fell. |
| 0:07.6 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:09.6 | The best book title I have in my entire canon, I think, is super getton. |
| 0:13.8 | A really big geton. |
| 0:15.9 | And it just still makes me happy. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm trying to find the cover too. |
| 0:20.2 | The four horseman of the apocalypse is on the cover of Armageddon. |
| 0:23.6 | The book, this one is satirizing. |
| 0:25.5 | Supergeden has three merry-go-round horses and then a mermaid. |
| 0:29.7 | A statue of a mermaid. |
| 0:31.9 | And it still brings me great joy. |
| 0:35.1 | And of course, between right behind when it was written by Mr. Sock and Nathan D. Wilson, Mr. Sock earned his PhD and it's Dr. Sock for round two. |
| 0:45.0 | So yeah, people hit me for that too. I had to check on something. It has a great line of dialogue. |
| 0:48.9 | Wow, said the Antichrist. Yes. Wow. Said the Antichrist. Oh, yes. Anyway, so the shroud, not even a Churchill podcast, |
| 1:00.2 | the shroud and my satires of apocalyptic fiction have really gotten me a lot of hate mail |
| 1:06.4 | through the years, those two, those two things. But I mean, you have a lot of life left. |
| 1:11.8 | So I'm trying. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm trying to. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't think those need to stay on the podium forever. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, we'll see what we can do to this place. |
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