The imagination is the imaging, orienting, and meaning-making faculty of the mind. These images, these narratives, formed by the imagination will always come out our fingers and dictate the choices we make. This reality is true both for individuals and for a people. The United States has a dominant narrative and our political decisions are largely oriented by that narrative. The short podcast found here by John Stonestreet at BreakPoint does a wonderful job of showing how the Church’s failure to capture and shape the imagination regarding homosexuality has profound results on the moral shape of the country that our grandchildren will inherit. While you listen, remember God’s promise of hope: “And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them” (Isaiah 42:16).
The Master story-teller is still at work, pounding out stories that rush toward redemption. This moral downturn in our nation is no surprise to God, nor is it the end of the story. Every great story ends with an upturn and the Christian privilege is to imagine what form that upturn will take as described by God’s promises and then knead those promises, like yeast, into the loaf of culture.
