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It turns out the Christian story is a good story in which to learn to fail. As the ethicist Samuel Wells has written, some stories feature heroes and some stories feature saints and the difference between them matters: ‘Stories … told with … heroes at the centre of them … are told to laud the virtues of the heroes—for if the hero failed, all would be lost. By contrast, a saint can fail in a way that the hero can’t, because the failure of the saint reveals the forgiveness and the new possibilities made in God, and the saint is just a small character in a story that’s always fundamentally about God.’
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I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.Lauren Winner, Still
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Sam Wells is my favorite person.
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