Posts tagged ‘Bible’
How to do drama #37 Rewriting the Bible
Churches have sensibilities. Jonah can negotiate with a fish, John can prefer garlic bread but Jesus can’t change his menu. How can Christian drama negotiate this?
Deep Roots – a drama script about the sower and the seeds
Weed is really not very bright, but as he pesters Corn to talk he discovers that Corn once had a really large family, and that his own relations were the neighbours from hell! The parable of the sower is told from the plants’ point of view to restore some of the original impact which can be lost in our urban society.
Inspired by television
The ideas and inspiration for writing can come from anywhere – our Script of the Month “The Hotel Inspector” came from necessity – and television.
Mind your language – the minefield of paraphrase
Over at BiteMyBible there is a discussion about the acceptability or otherwise of translating the Bible into dialect or colloquial language. Those preaching, leading worship or presenting dramas want to make the Bible accessible – but it is a balancing act with few right answers!
In a Bad Way – a drama script about the good samaritan
There were three holy men – why did two walk on by? The parable of the Good Samaritan is reduced to its simplest as three men tell us who they are and why they did what they did. It’s not all black and white and leaves us with an uneasy question – what would we have done?
Darwin at 200 – time for the church to own up?
150 years ago, Charles Darwin suggested an explanation for the wealth of animal types on this planet. In doing so he caused a storm of controversy that has never gone away. But has the church damaged itself by choosing the wrong side of the argument?
