Oh, and here is another quote I came across about story telling and truth bearing. It’s from Donald Miller’s very excellent Blue Like Jazz. (Just the title is reason enough to buy the book.)

“The magical proposition of the gospel, once free form the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemmingway or Steinbeck, like something with copious amounts of sex and blood. Christian spirituality was not a children’s story. It wasn’t cute or neat. It was mytical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
Perhaps, I thought, Chrisitan spirituality really was the difference between illusion and magic.”