The dangers of putting "old wine in a new bottle"

Call me masochist, but I thoroughly enjoy the publishing process. My favorite part being the reviewers' comments, I sit anxiously waiting for that notification that will pull apart every puka and will make me question my very own existence in academia.

Why do I enjoy it, you might ask. Simply put, it challenges me to be better: better at writing in an L2, better at making my arguments clearer, better at standing for what I believe in.

While working on a co-authored piece using narratives, one of the reviewers rightly pointed out that we were trying to put "old wine in a new bottle" (an expression that comes from a parable of Jesus in the New Testament). After a couple of weeks of pondering its potential dangers, I came across Kathy Carter's (1993) short, easy-to-read, on point article which does just that (i.e., addresses the potential dangers):

“...for those of us telling stories in our work, we will not serve the community well if we sanctify story-telling work and build an epistemology on it to the point that we simply substitute one paradigmatic domination for another without challenging domination itself.” (p. 11)

Reference: Carter, K. (1993). The place of story in the study of teaching and teacher education. Educational researcher, 22(1), 5-18.