First draft by Ken Evers Hood: The year is 2045. The institutional church crumbling in North America in 2015 is little more than a memory today. After years of denying science, resisting changing attitudes towards the role of women and sexual minorities, leadership incompetence and clergy sex abuse the church moved from being viewed as …
A huge tip of the hat to the blog Racialicious, for pointing me to this TED talk by the novelist Chimamanda Adichie. She speaks of the danger of the “single story,” by which she means a story that is told of a whole people, or an entire city, or any group, which constrains the many …
Here’s a digital story that tells of the collaboration between middle school students from two very different contexts. It’s not “about” religion, per se, but it would be an interesting catalyst for having storytellers think about how to tell their stories.
Here is a digital story told and created by Diane Shallue, in the context of a digital storytelling workshop that was led by the Center for Digital Storytelling at the 2010 REA/APPRRE annual meeting. REA/APPRRE’s Justice & Peace Task Force sponsored the workshop.
Here is a digital story told and created by Anabel Proffitt, in the context of a digital storytelling workshop that was led by the Center for Digital Storytelling at the 2010 REA/APPRRE annual meeting. REA/APPRRE’s Justice & Peace Task Force sponsored the workshop.
Here’s a digital short that explores “grace alone” (sola gratia) through a local community project. As they note, “The mission of Sola Gratia productions: to support good causes and build community through the support of good music.”
You might think that a website devoted to digital storytelling as a form of faith formation would be able to answer this question easily — and in some ways, of course, we can. But the bigger reason for having a post that seeks to name (or in this case, define) a term is because so …
Do you know what an “FAQ” is? A set of “frequently asked questions.” As I was wandering around the web today, I stumbled upon this FAQ on storytelling. The piece is full of interesting answers to questions like “why tell stories?” and “how do I learn a story?” and so on.
Here’s a short video that is essentially just a recording of a talk that Jim Gilliam gave at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC on June 6, 2011. It’s a fascinating example of personal witness, however, and one’s that been very controversial in various contexts. I think it’s a great video to use as a …