Even if we disagree with these postmodern denials of coherent personal identity, we must still take seriously the shaping power of conversational stories. Informal social interactions (real or virtual) give us the platform for telling the story called “this is who I am.” For every weekly sermon that Christian teens fidget through, they have thirty, sixty or a hundred digital social media interactions. To an extent far greater than most of us realize, “selves are ‘talked into being’” via mundane everyday discourse.661 Let’s give a concrete example. As a writer, my eyes and ears are always open
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