Storytelling, doctrine, and spiritual formation

15 This sentence and several that follow, scattered here and there in the ensuing discussion, are repeated (with permission) from a single paragraph of For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1998), pp. 139-40. In a more general way, this paper develops much further certain claims I make about storytelling in that book, particularly in Chapter Five, "Teaching Ethics to Kids."

16 Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life (New York: Penguin Books Inc., 1990).

17 Jill Ker Conway, "Points of Departure," in Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, rev. ed., ed. William Zinsser (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1995).

is Russell Baker, "Life With Mother," in Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. rev. ed., ed. William Zinsser (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1995).

CATHERINE M. WALLACE*

* Catherine M. Wallace is an independent writer and cultural critic; she holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan.

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