Love Has a Story

In many churches, spiritual formation has been reduced to the memorization and recitation of doctrinal propositions. In other spaces, it has been reduced to chasing emotional highs. But our identity struggles are not solved by mere intellectual prowess or some ability to feel intensely happy all the time.

What if the work of Christ was not merely to get us to Heaven, but to tell us a story about God’s love that would simultaneously dignify, challenge, and transform our own unique stories into beautifully diverse expressions of His love? What if our spiritual formation meant internalizing and participating in that story in such a way that our varying identities, shaped by our own complex stories, were not erased or invalidated but redeemed and renewed by the love of God?

Love Has a Story is the intersection of three things I think we all need: (1) a rich understanding of how the Bible’s stories make up one big story (biblical theology), (2) how the work of engaging our own personal stories (story work) is necessary for our transformative participation in the New Creation, and (3) a welcome expression of authentic and artistic storytelling that helps create a safe space for vulnerability (poetry). I introduce you to my own story through my personal poems, which offer both empathy and encouragement, as well as a view into the way God’s love intends to redeem and restore every aspect of our life stories.

This intersection of biblical theology, “story work” reflection questions, and my own personal and transparent poetry, is what Love Has a Story is all about.

In Love Has a Story (Moody Publishers 2024), I invite you to explore God’s love as it has existed and moved throughout (and before) time, and how it intends to transform your own life story. I share some of my own story through poetry as well, while encouraging you to consider how your life is meant to be a story about God’s love, too.

This book is biblical theology, meets personal story work, meets your local coffee shop poet or artist.

Love has a story, and you’re a part of it.

Learn more here:

Theology in the Raw with Preston Sprinkle “When Trauma Meets the Love of God: Quina Aragon”

Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison “Quina Aragon on the Enduring Love of God and God’s Heart for Migrants”

The Habit Podcast with Jonathan Rogers “Quina Aragon Feels Unqualified but Compelled.”

This book is especially for those with curious and aching hearts. Those who sometimes wonder:

What does the Bible, or Jesus’s story, have to do with me?
What makes Scripture (or God) worth my time?
How is Scripture’s story relevant to my struggles, angst, and story?

Or even:

What happened to that zeal for Christ I used to have? Have I lost touch with my first love?
How do I reconnect with God after I feel I’ve drifted away because of the concerns of survival and family life?
How in the world do I make intentional, transformative time to be with God when my life is so busy?

Love Has a Story is my attempt at helping you better understand the Bible as one big story about God’s love, while considering how your own unique story is meant to be transformed by that love so that you, too, can actively participate in the love story God continues to write through you.

This book flows as one story, so it can be read in either long or brief spurts. It can be read as a cohesive story in just a few sittings, or it can be broken down into 100 days of short readings.

All that to say, if you find yourself seeking deeper understanding and comfort, this story is for you.

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