In my previous post I shared a little about how stories can have impact in the real world. Today I want to go a little deeper into that idea. While working on a paper for one of my seminary classes, I was introduced to something called narrative identity theory. This theory says that stories are “among the most important means by which people articulate and clarify their sense of [the world].”i We connect events together to form stories to help our lives make sense, stringing memories together in the way that a novelist arranges chapters.ii On the individual level, narrative identity theory is the identity we construct through the stories…