Now testimony is…”who we are and who we are becoming.” Our stories no longer tell tales of spiritual acquiescence and conformity. Rather, they tell of finding meaning, finding unique selves, and finding God in a confusing and chaotic world.

Contemporary thinkers have noted the change—and the new role that storytelling plays in our lives. Sociologist Anthony Giddons claims that our identity is found in the on-going story about the self and further asserts that “each of us not only has but lives a biography.”

Moral philosopher Charles Taylor says that we understand life as an “unfolding story” in which “we grasp ourselves as narrative.” Put simply, we become ourselves as we tell our stories.”

from Christianity for the Rest of Us