In re-releasing this best-selling classic book, Storytelling - Imagination and Faith, Fr. Bill Bausch brings to life the art of stories and of storytelling. Weaving together stories that have been collected over the years, he celebrates the ability of storytelling to transform the heart of the reader. No doubt, this book will hold a treasured spot on the shelves of preachers, ministers, teachers, parents - and anyone who wants to learn the power of the story For stories remain the repositories of our successes and failures, our dreams and our hopes, our faith and despair. And we remember...

The Bible is a much more convoluted, complicated and circuitous than anyone ever thought. It appears to be much more the product of a social evolution from the common stories of other ancient Near Eastern peoples with whom it shares so much (even its gods) than a singular revelation from on high. The Bible, in reality, is an unfinished mosaic of ceaseless interpretations right up to the present day. This book aims to show what is "out there" in current biblical discovery and commentary. What "are" the scholars saying? How compatible or non-compatible is what they tell us with traditional...