Conservatives tell themselves a story about stories. It goes like this: I’m too busy with my business, my job, my family, or my church to waste time on fiction. Stories are frivolous, unimportant things — better left to children or dreamers. Real life is about work, not imagination.
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That narrative feels practical, even virtuous. But it’s also false — and dangerously so. Because stories are not optional decorations on culture. They are its foundation.
Even the most hard-headed conservative already knows this, if they pause to notice. Jesus Himself didn’t lecture in policy papers; He told parables. A Samaritan on a roadside, a prodigal son crawling home, a shepherd leaving ninety-nine sheep to search for
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