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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

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A fresh, creative look at the underlying meaning of the Gospels that stresses the many dimensions of God’s relationship to humanity.
A sermon arises out of silence, preacher and author Frederick Buechner reminds us, and that silence is both an opportunity and a warning. An audience sits in the pews waiting, and each of those who take a seat there bring with them a long and complicated history. How will you reach them? How will you awaken them? “Tell them the truth,” Buechner says in this brief and powerful book. The Gospel begins here, out of this silence: “It is life with the sound turned off so that for a moment or two you’ll be able to experience it not when it comes to the words you’re making it bearable by but for the unutterable mystery that it is.” Out of this silence, he writes, the “real news comes, which is sad news before it is glad news and that may be fairy tale last of all.”

This series of lectures explores these three ways of seeing the Gospel: first as tragedy, as honest sorrow and suffering–this will have to be faced before anything else becomes conceivable. From this comes the comedy of new life: a child born to Abraham and Sarah in old age, Lazarus raised from the dead. This is the folly of the Gospel–what Buechner will in the long run call the fairy tale. Drawing deeply from the well of The Wizard of Oz and other stories, he reminds us in this final chapter that “there’s a child in all of us,” a child in touch with a truth deeper than the logic of tragedy. –Doug Thorpe

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