It is exercise week at Theology of Storytelling, where the focus is on building a practical, writing skill that can then be applied to any storytelling project where it might be useful. While it will be writing-based, the overall concept and way of thinking about story creation can easily be applied elsewhere and in the other mediums. Both symbolism and allegory can be used in any type of story, whether it be word-, picture-, or sound-based. It will be up to you, the storyteller, to adapt these devices for your chosen media, but this article will try to take a more generalized approach to creating allegory and symbolism.

Allow me to start this article with a statement that may, for some, be controversial: not all secular media is bad, some of it even has great messages for the Christian.