“landmark” moments such as school transitions, significant relationships, major crises and triumphs, and so forth. As helpful as those narrations are, however, human lives are not reducible to them. Human selves are so much more than their biographies—even their autobiographies—can relate. Something analogous is at play in efforts to communicate and relate the Christian life, either at the particular or general level. People come to the Christian faith in a number of ways, and these are embedded