Perhaps we view Maran in the way we might view a Hebrew Testament prophet, as one who is telling us the awful truth while there is yet time to do something about it.
Guest Post: “Seeing Creation as Ongoing Revelation” by Trey Harris
Trey Harris is a pastor in North Carolina, and a student together with me in Portland Seminary's Doctor of Ministry program in Semiotics. In our program, we read lots of deep and heady books, then comment on them to each other in a weekly forum. In the following post, Trey offers wisdom and poetry inspired by Paul Mariani's "God and the Imagination."
“Decoding the Divine,” by Leonard Sweet
Control the story, control reality itself. Control the story, and you hold the master key to all forms of power Leonard Sweet, Decoding the Divine: Unveiling the Sacred Through Semiotics, 181
“Changing Signs of Truth,” by Crystal Downing
Stories sweep us up and out, stories help our hearts and minds to focus. When we are thoroughly in the "now" of a story, we long to risk the next step, to write the next chapter, and follow where this story is going to take us.

