Daniel Taylor discusses the overlap between narrative and ritual: [The] power of stories derives in part from their partaking in the character of ritual. Rituals are those things we do over and over again . . . Sacred rituals are those that tie us somehow to the transcendent, to everlasting things that are larger than ourselves. Human beings always have been and always will be creatures of ritual. There is something comforting in chosen repetition . . . it may begin as early as the unborn child’s familiarity with the mother’s heartbeat. It is reinforced by the rhythms of day and night, and of
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