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  • J. Mark Bertrand lectures at Worldview Academy and is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007). After spending most of his life in Houston, Texas, he now lives with his wife Laurie in South Dakota. He has a BA in English from Union University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where he worked as production editor of the literary magazine Gulf Coast. For several years, he served on the board of Strange Land Literacy Foundation, a non-profit promoting literature, theology, culture studies and fellowship in Houston. Until recently, he was the fiction editor at Relief Journal, where he now serves on the advisory board.

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April 24, 2008

Unacknowledged Legislators?

Percy Bysshe Shelley dubbed poets the "unacknowledged legislators of the world," a testament to the power of stories to shape culture. In Rethinking Worldview, I pick up this note during the course of a discussion about the ways in which worldviews function as stories. Today, fellow writer Mike Duran, inspired by some passages of mine, takes a look at the question of artistic influence on the larger culture.

Storytellers: Culture's 'Unacknowledged Legislators'

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Book Description

  • Everybody has a worldview, a perspective on life, and sometimes we're forced to re-think. The world can surprise and overwhelm us, and when that happens, it helps to know what's really important in life. Rethinking Worldview explores some essential questions from a Christian perspective, starting with what "worldviews" really are, how they are formed and how they change. It's a chronicle of one man's intellectual journey, written to encourage fellow travelers along the way.