HeyJaredStory Scraps
Parts and pieces of spirituality, speculative fiction and most likely Star Wars.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 31, 2026
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It’s the final countdown. (opens the original)
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Happy Hobbit Day! (opens the original)
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Sample Chapter! Discernment & Mermaids (opens the original)
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All great epic fantasies have scenes, characters and plot lines that wind up on the cutting room floor. The runtime is already too long, the page count too high. But this is good stuff! You hate to see it go to waste.My new book Where Wonder Leads: Finding God Through Fairy Tales, Myth and Contemplative Prayer from Loyola Press takes a lot from fantastical stories—including this unhappy outcome for some of my favorite scenes and chapters. But fear not! I’m sharing one with you here. Like all con
Why Our Faith Lives Need Fairy Tales (opens the original)
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“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralyzed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices; almost as if it were something medical. But supposing th
How My Daughters Helped Write My Book (opens the original)
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