The Fiction of Our Lives: Creating Our Stories Over a Lifetime

We are the author of our own lives. We create, re-create, and co-create our stories over the lifetime we have been given in order to make something of ourselves in the process. Blending new findings from brain science and psychology with spiritual and theological insights, Sandra Levy-Achtemeier has written a readable work translating complex scientific and spiritual categories into practical terms that can inform our everyday selves. From our evolutionary roots that equip us to sing meaning into our living, to the cultural menus we now draw from to script new meaning into our days, she has given us an incredible wealth of wisdom to inform the rest of our life journeys. Underneath it all, Levy-Achtemeier makes the case that God's Spirit and call are at the center of our story--from our brain synapses to the historical circumstances that impinge on our lives.

Sandra Levy-Achtemeier is a psychologist, writer, and Theologian-in-Residence at historic St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. She is the author of Imagination and the Journey of Faith (2008). For more, see her website: www.sandralevy.net.

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