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Rethinking How Christians Tell Stories About Land with Ben Norquist
Why does the word "Appalachia" conjure a specific image in your mind, even if you've never been there? Ben Norquist, co-author of Every Somewhere Sacred: Rescuing a Theology of Place in the American Imagination, joins Brian From to unpack what he and co-author Brian Miller call "land stories" — the often inaccurate, sometimes harmful narratives American Christians tell about places and the people who live there. Some of these stories operate on the surface, shaping how we think about a region like Appalachia. Others run far deeper, tracing back centuries to colonial-era assumptions…
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