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Russell Moore: Why We Need Fiction for Moral Formation

The Hutchmoot Podcast

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The Unsettling Power of Fiction

A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, Yudora Welty wrote. Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior, but how to feel," she said. There's a difference between my grandmother saying that husbands and wives should love each other from her telling me about what it was like to be in the room with my grandfather the day he died.

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