The Power of Storytelling
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Storytelling is essential in evangelization. Today, Dave VanVickle and I discuss the importance of narrative and contextualizing Church doctrine with powerful stories when we share the Gospel.
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The Gospel is an adventure story that we must not only live, but also share and pass down through generations like all great stories.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three punch Catholic podcast on evangelization. |
| 0:34.3 | I am Mike Gomer Gormley, and I'm joined as sometimes by Dave the Bold Van Vickle. |
| 0:40.9 | How you doing, Dave? I'm good. I like that one. Dave the Bull. Yeah, I hope that when I'm like, |
| 0:45.4 | yeah, like I hope that like 200 years from now I have a nickname like that, you know? Well, I came up with |
| 0:53.4 | your nickname because we're about to go through |
| 0:55.1 | some listener mail and Mary Carlson has the word boldness and that's all I saw. So I was like |
| 1:01.8 | boldness, Dave the bold, there we go. Yeah, when they write that, when they write the epic poem |
| 1:06.2 | of your life, right? When Homer is summoned from the grave and he pens it, right now I'm listening |
| 1:12.3 | to the Iliad on audiobook. Oh, that's my favorite book of all time. Gohmert. Oh, it is |
| 1:17.3 | incredible. Whoa. Whoa. It was pretty life-changing for me. Which, now, which |
| 1:23.8 | translation did you read? Did you read the one that actually rhymes? Like, it's a poem, right? That kept the poetry of it. I don't know. No, I don't think so. You're like, that's my favorite book, but I don't know anything about it. Come on what? Does it rhyme? Does it rhyme? No, I've literally, I've even read some of it in Greek, Gomer. So don't you dare come on my parade here. Wow. Well done. |
| 1:46.5 | No, that book, I love that book. |
| 1:48.2 | I had amazing teachers. They were all from Thomas |
| 1:50.0 | Quinas College. And we read that book together. |
| 1:53.7 | And it was borderline life-changing for me. |
| 1:56.7 | It's incredible. It's incredible. And I'm reading Tales of the Trojan |
| 2:00.1 | War, which was a book published by Scholastic and Usborn to my son Noah. And as I'm reading, I'm like, oh, this is cool. It gives you like a little bit of the prehistory of the Iliad. And then I'm on like chapter two and I'm like, oh, no, this is the Iliad. Okay, here we go. So it's been, so he's like loving the story of course i do all these voices and |
| 2:19.3 | stuff but um a buddy of ours thomas yager worked at the western academy for a while and all the |
| 2:27.3 | teachers were given a copy of a new translation of the iliad which, which does not preserve the rhyme. |
| 2:34.8 | Okay, okay, okay. |
| 2:36.0 | So, and it tries to preserve the sense of it, and it's really well done, but it is, it is crazy. |
| 2:43.2 | So you don't have any of the rhyme, but you got the intensity and flourish of Homer as best he can. |
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