The Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom

The Scandal of Reading: Uncovering Holy Wisdom

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The Scandal of Holiness

The Scandal of Holiness

"Who tells your story?"

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Jessica Hooten Wilson
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Recently I finished Winn Collier's Burning in My Bones, the authorized biography of Eugene Peterson. The whole time I was reading, I sang that final Hamilton song in my head, "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?" While memoirs zero in on a theme, biographies tell the story of a life, from beginning to end. We see the whole narrative, all the path…

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