Summary: Memoirist Casey Gerald, the grandson of a famous preacher, said that preachers have the hardest job: telling a 2,000-year-old story (that everybody already knows) in such a way that it seems like they've never heard it before. But that is not the only way the religion and faith appear in literature. The idea of utopia (and dystopia) goes back to a book by Thomas More, considered a saint by the Catholic church. In this panel, Donna M. Johnson, Greg Garrett, Carolyn Cohagen, and Rev. Meg Barnhouse talk about how they find fresh angles on old stories, adapt them to the changing expectations and needs of different audiences, and consider the political implications of certain religious ideologies.
