Parables for Dreamers

Parables are fundamentally disruptive.

Sure, they are allegorical. Narrative. Artistic. But fundamentally parables are meant to challenge and disrupt the current belief structures. Employed in parables are common experiences, tropes, metaphors, or symbols, woven together to convey an otherwise difficult truth about a reality waiting to hatch.

I write parables for cynics. Mostly because I find religious cynics to be justified in their cynicism and yet struggling to find joy.

I also write parables for dreamers. My experience is that the concepts and language we receive from church are inherently restrictive rather than inspiring.

Actually, for years I was a dream-stunted cynic. I needed disruption. I found the parables to be a helpful antidote.

This is why I’m writing Disrupting Faith: Parables for Cynics and Dreamers, which will be a compilation of modern parables and thoughtful interpretations.

Some of these parables will be at becominghuman.tumblr.com.