C S Lewis famously used fairy-stories to steal past what he called the “watchful dragons” of overfamiliarity with the Christian story. By approaching Christian stories of Jesus’ death and resurrection through the lens of fantasy in the Narnia books, he stripped them “of their stained-glass and Sunday School associations” so that they could be experienced with their true potency.

But how can we approach the Bible more directly to rediscover the power of the Biblical stories? I discuss just that on the Postmodern Realities podcast below and on the accompanying subscriber-only article on Equip.org.

This is an expanded version of material I first wrote on my newsletter Bigger on the Inside. If you are interested in more in this vein, sign up at www.biggerinside.co.uk.