Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories
For people who need good fiction and good theology—at the same time!
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Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Today's story is "Too Many Gates" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I reveal a less elevated source of these stories—namely, the St.-Peter-at-the-gates-of-heaven joke—and its origin in Revelation 21.
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Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Today's story is "Hidden" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, a little about my recent trip to Australia and training in an Australian accent for the titular story of my next book, Wandering Stars and Other Stories, due out later this year!
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Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Today's story is "Two by Two" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I discuss how advertising my work as "Christian Fiction" earned me my first one-star review of Pearly Gates!
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Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Today's story is "Shout" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I discuss where I deliberately diverge from C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, and why at least today's short story has more in common with his novel Till We Have Faces.
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Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Today's story is "Accumulation" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I explore what Pearly Gates has in common with C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce.
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Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Today's story is "Which?" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I explain just what the podcast logo is supposed to mean!
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Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Today's story is "Noli Me Tangere" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about the necessity of bodiliness in Christian faith and fictional depictions thereof.
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Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Today's story is "Another Lord" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I discuss the genre of "afterlife fiction," whether these are parables or possibly fables, and settle on one reviewer's description: "provocative devotional."
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Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Welcome to Season 1 of Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories!
Today's story is "Night Cloak" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about the real-life pastoral experience that inspired the first of the Pearly Gates stories.
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Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Today's story is "Suitcase" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I discuss my recent reread of Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle.
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Good Fiction, Good Theology
I've been reading and writing stories as long as I can remember. When I was little I didn't make the conscious connection between my favorite storytellers—George MacDonald, Madeleine L'Engle, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis—and their Christian faith. But once I became an adult and found a vocation in theology, it all added up. All the more so when I added Dorothy L. Sayers and Flannery O'Connor to the mix! Now I find I can't do theology without thinking how it might take fictional form, any more than I can tell a story without it being leavened and illumined by matters of faith. If you, too, need good fiction and good theology at the same time, this podcast is for you.