Network of Biblical Storytellers, Canada

I guess I'll need to adjust the part of my text criticism lecture in which I tell students all of the "autographs" have been lost.

This from Cliff Barbarick - from one of his students of biblical storytelling.

Biblical Storytelling workshop spanning the globe last week! How great to spend time with the Word together. Thanks for sharing this, Sandhya (from NBS-India)

Wow! What an opportunity.

And THIS why we tell Biblical stories.... And Felix, still sitting on top of Phoebe’s baggage, swelled with joyful self-importance as he took a deep breath a...nd began. ‘Jesus went away to a quiet place with his disciples. They were tired and needed time alone. So they got in a boat and crossed over to a quiet part of the shore. But people saw them go and followed. Or should I say they ran ahead of them?’ Nods around the room confirmed that he was quite right - he should say that. As Phoebe looked around at her companions she realised that, on one level, there really was no need to tell the story. Everyone knew it already - every beat of the story, every character, every detail - but this didn’t seem to matter at all. Everyone gathered there was taking as much pleasure in the hearing of this story as Felix did in the telling of it. As it unfolded, people offered the details they felt were missing: the grass was green; the people numbered five thousand; there were two fish as well as bread. Felix wasn’t so much telling the story as conducting it. Quote from: Phoebe: A Story by Paula Gooder.

To pray and actually mean Thy Kingdom come, we must also be able to say my kingdoms go. - Richard Rohr