Stories frame 'a child's interior life for living in this world. Fiction is far more realistic than we realize. Fiction and poetry mysteriously transfer truth in a far more powerful way than anything else. God Himself chose to write in passionate poetry and narrative and parables rather than in the bureaucratic style of a systematic theology. But again, parents have to lead the way. Many parents, however, have little taste for fiction, though they allow it for the "little kids." Some parents disdain fiction because they are bony pragmatists, not having the time, but others even claim that it
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