In Defense of Fairy Tales
A steadily increasing amount of people I meet believe imagination and fairy tales to be just a "cute phase" of one's early childhood. Things to pack up in unlabeled boxes and store on a closet shelf. Many who would identify as evangelicals define these beloved stories and far away places our minds wander with them as a distraction, an escape. As unnecessary junk accumulating space in our heads where other things - facts, formalities and the "real world" should instead reside. But the world and the people therein are not simply what we perceive by way of our senses. Many would like us to believe matter is all that truly exists - that there is no great magic - no direction, value or significance to our lives, or any life. We're just a bunch of particles after all. Or are we? Are our lives defined by the sort of order science provides for us? Have we taken earthly tools and chosen to use them to interpret both the temporal and eternal? The world and the ...