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https://www.inc.com/michael-simmons/11-ways-remarkable-storytellers-create-reality-distortion-fields.html

Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are both known for their seemingly mystical power to distort reality. What gives them this ability isn’t a quirk of a charismatic leader; it’s a learnable skill called storytelling.

The better at storytelling someone is, the more that readers and listeners are transported to a whole new world. According to studies conducted on this transportation phenomenon, great stories alter beliefs, result in the loss of access to real-world facts, evoke emotions, and significantly reduce ability to detect inaccuracies. To understand this phenomenon, you don’t need to look any further than your own personal experience desperately rooting for an immortal, time-traveling mutant in X-Men or another equally impossible character and plot from your favorite movie.

https://stownpodcast.org/ 

https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-239-brian-reed 

http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/kara-walker-after-a-subtlety.html

http://siouxlander.blogspot.com/2017/04/in-but-of-stuff.html

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/blake-lively-says-googling-herself-ended-in-full-depression/ar-BBA2MSh?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

http://religionnews.com/2017/04/19/mormon-leaders-have-trust-issues/

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-cure-for-pain/

But the debate on women’s roles, in church and at home, must be aired, and damaging theology challenged. The problem with teaching based on archaic notions of a gender hierarchy goes far beyond any one congregation.