Speakers: Sarah Bobell, The Scribe Writing Center Coordinator, and Eric Stiller (MDiv, DMin), Pastor, Central West End Church

The Scribe Conversation Series seeks to facilitate community dialogue around using reading and writing as aids to our spiritual formation.

Rev. Stiller will present material from his DMin dissertation titled “A Picture Set Us Free: Preaching to the Imagination in a Secular Age.” One of the biggest challenges to preaching the Christian faith in the modern West is a growing inability to make sense of the basic categories that comprise a Christian worldview. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others, the dissertation explores how preachers engage the imagination during sermons to help people in the closed or open immanent frame shift to an open transcendent frame.