Want to be a good apologist? Try being a great storyteller.

Holly Ordway next.

Hello and welcome again to Catholic answers focus.

Many of us have grown accustomed to the apologist as a person who makes reasoned arguments in defense of the faith and without question this is central to apologetics.

But reasoned arguments are often not enough and appeal to the imagination is also needed.

And for that, we need stories.

I'm Cy Kelle at your host, and today we discuss the role of storytelling and apologetics

with Dr. Holly Ordway. Dr.

Ordway is a professor of English and a faculty member in the online MA in

apologetics at Houston Baptist University. She specializes in cultural and imaginative apologetics.

She's also a fellow of the Word on Fire Institute.

She's the author of the forthcoming book, Tolkien's Modern Reading, Middle Earth Beyond the

Middle Ages, and her other books include

apologetics and the Christian imagination, an integrated approach to defending the faith, and a memoir,

Not God's type, an atheist academic lays down her arms. Dr. Hollyardway, thank you for being with us again

on Catholic answers focus. It was my pleasure. So in a piece, a chapter that you wrote on this very topic you start with a very, very short story which I will read in its entirety to you now and ask you to tell me who this is about.

Once upon a time there was an atheist, then he read a fairy tale and

discuss myths. As a result, he stopped being an atheist and became a Christian. Who's that?

Well, that would be CS Lewis and of course that's a very condensed version of

his story but the you know it's it's condensed to make a point. Right and the

the point about CS Lewis's lab, I mean probably the most famous topologist of the last

hundred and fifty years.

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