The Roofless Church

Category: Narrative

  • The Best White American Man Ever, Maybe the First

    The Best White American Man Ever, Maybe the First

    An Honest Book Review of Brandon Peele’s Bison Medicine With Brandon Peele’s, Bison Medicine, he has done what no White American Man has done before–considered an American future that starts with all of us. Notice that I said “starts”. That is because I do not believe that the American experiment has ever really begun. I…

  • Do the INR (Individual Narrative Responsibility) Work

    Do the INR (Individual Narrative Responsibility) Work

    How often do you reflect on how much the stories you tell yourself impact your life? Personally, I think about it everyday. Because since I was a child, I have always been keenly aware of narrative dynamics. Consciously or unconsciously we all perceive ourselves as characters in a narrative. And how we locate ourselves in…

  • Hear the (W)hole Story

    Hear the (W)hole Story

    Why is it that so many people see other perspectives and experiences as a threat? And why is it that we also tend to fill in holes and gaps in stories with whatever the path of least resistance offers us? As a person with a philosophical bent, I can admit that in most cases, I…

  • The Story You Refuse to Hear May Be Your Own

    In a recent sermon called, The Search for the present Christ, I challenged my community to reflect on the image of Afro-Cuban artist, Harmonia Rosale’s work, I Exist, which features a black woman on the Cross. I asked them to do this not because I was trying to be provocative in the shock value sense,…

  • Narrative Insight: How the Stories We Tell Shape the World We Experience

    Narrative Insight: How the Stories We Tell Shape the World We Experience

    We are moving from the information age into the age of the narrative. Look around you and it is easy to see that how you tell your story matters. Whether it is your personal story or the story of your organizations, all of your relationships–and the depth of them–are determined by the stories you tell…