the storytelling that draws people into the principles and actually embeds them, right, silly biblical narrative, two-thirds of it is story, so i wonder what would happen if we were better storytellers about these principles and actually presented them and actively. so people could actually see the full tapestry of what it means to be a person who lives in virtue or to do it a little -- like in the book of proverbs so people understand what that means. i can also give a lecture on you know, sloth and the consequence of that in light of a person's human dignity and vocation. you have to do that or i could say look at -- yeah, if you don't work, i get that. so we have to do a better job of putting these things in storage because it's actually the story that compels action, ethics, right? so your sister is actually splicing herself into an ongoing narrative, and actually i argue that many people on the left and in the middle and on the right, not as much on the right, in the middle and on the way left, they invite you into a story, a utopian story of the way things could possibly be and a lot of pe

so the biblical narrative, you know, two-thirds of it is story. so i wonder what would happen if we were, if we were better storytellers about these principles and actually presented them inductively? so that people could actually see the full tapestry of what it means to be a person of dignity to live in virtue. or to do it like in the book of proverbs, for example, right? people understand what that means. okay, i could also give a lecture on, you know, sloth and the consequences of that in light of a person's human dignity and the implications therein. i could to that, or i could say look at the ant, you sluggard. yeah, if you don't work, you don't eat. i could do that. so we have to do a better job of putting these in stories, because it's actually the story that compels action, ethic, right? so your sister is splicing herself into an ongoing narrative. and, actually, i argue that many people on the left and in the middle and the right -- not as much on the right, in the middle, on the left and the way left -- they actually invite people into

lift up his people because a lot of what he was always doing was elevating his people into biblical narratives, right? he put them into the crucifixion. this is the cross we bear for our people. or he was putting them to exodus or into those other stories of old testament deliverers. but sometimes it was the indignant king and this indignant king when he seethed with racism was an angry black preacher. and he would say it's the black man who produced the wealth of the nation. all right. and the nation doesn't have enough sense to share its wealth and power with the very people who made it so. all right. and i know what i'm talking about this morning, the black manmade america wealthy. and before long he fell into this poetic meter that he often used in black belt meetings which established a claim to america that was deeper than civil religion and jefferson. we were here. that's his phrase, a black we. we were here before the pilgrim fathers landed in plymouth in 1620, we were hear, oh, yeah, before jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the declaration of independe