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Dale Brown
Calvin Symposium on Worship 2007
This workshop included examples of contemporary short stories from writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Doris Betts, and Raymond Carver. Discussions centered on how these ostensibly secular stories resonate with New Testament themes and how such stories might be useful to preachers trying to find ways to relate contemporary themes to their listeners.
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Presenter
W. Dale Brown is professor of English at Calvin College. In his courses in creative writing and contemporary American fiction, he is particularly interested in stories that preach. He has published a collection of interviews, Of Faith and Fiction (Eerdmans, 1997), and a critical biography of Frederick Buechner, The Book of Buechner (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007).