This video of Kurt Vonnegut teaching on our most loved stories is funny and insightful.
Vonnegut reveals our:
1) Hope for change
2) Moralistic solutions to life’s deepest problems
3) Fantasies for a fairytale ending that will bring us “off scale happiness.”
These stories all contain elements of truth but very little promise for real change in every day life. The gospel, however, does offer us hope for change, grace in and for life’s deepest problems, and the promise of consummated grace in “off scale happiness” in our final union with Christ. The gospel story makes sense of our favorites stories, in a redemptive kind of way.