Seeing your life as a coherent narrative gives meaning to
it. You can discern the significance of
events in your life by joining them together in a narrative sequence. You can make sense of your life by telling
it as a story through sequences of photographs in dialogue with creative
texts.
The blog form is an ideal literary and artistic structure
for recording your experiences and commenting on them. As social media, blogs open opportunities to
share life stories with others worldwide through the blogosphere and
Twitterverse.
The following photos from a Bible Blog Your Life post appear in my book Through a Bible Lens. I also wrote about them in a personal narrative "How an Angel Led Me into the Garden of Eden" https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-an-angel-led-me-into-the-garden-of-eden/.
The following photos from a Bible Blog Your Life post appear in my book Through a Bible Lens. I also wrote about them in a personal narrative "How an Angel Led Me into the Garden of Eden" https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-an-angel-led-me-into-the-garden-of-eden/.
I was keynote speaker at the inaugural symposium launching
the Institute for Postdigital Narrative at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Europe’s foremost research
center for art and new media. The
Institute’s founding director Professor Michael Bielicky wrote, “Mankind has
always operated on narrative to explain and understand its own existence. Our
times, in particular, call for the exploration, expression, and especially,
creation of new story-telling formats.”
In The Art of Biblical Narrative, University of
California Professor Robert Alter explains that the Bible “has a great deal to
teach anyone interested in narrative because its seemingly simple, wonderfully
complex art offers such splendid illustrations of the primary possibilities of
narrative.” Paying attention to the literary
structure of the biblical narrative as you explore its content can offer you
significant lessons on how to write your story as it unfolds both visually and
verbally.
Bible blogging invites you to link your narrative to the
biblical narrative. It asks you to
create a dialogue between your story and the Bible’s story. It presents opportunities to use your
imagination for discovering how the biblical narrative provides fresh insights
for seeing the spiritual dimensions of your storyline.
See Bible Blog Your Life, an exemplary blog created by my wife Miriam and me as a
narrative of our daily life http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com. The book Through a Bible Lens teaches how to Bible blog your life by weaving smartphone photographs together with a creative Twitter text.
