...is a way to experience Scripture in a whole "new" way - the way the Hebrews and the first Christians did — as story.

Biblical Storytelling is the rediscovered ancient art of oral performance of the scriptural text.

It’s the way the stories of the Bible were always intended to be heard — the way they always were heard before they were written down, and even for centuries after that.

Biblical Storytelling makes the Scripture come alive in a powerful way in today’s world of “Digital Culture.”

Biblical Storytelling is also a powerful personal spiritual practice that can lead to a close and powerful relationship with God. We not only experience the stories of God, but we make God's story part of our story, and our story part of God's story.

Biblical Storyteller Beth Galbreath is available to present Scripture in worship or other events, and to lead workshops to teach the art, and to teach the art in a retreat format as a prayer form and spiritual practice.

There are other genres of Biblical Storytelling, for example:
     First-person narrative, an expansion of the Scriptural story from one person's point of view or in a puppet "dialogue"
     Midrash, an explanatory story composed using Biblical characters to illustrate a moral or theological truth
     Text-telling, the art of bringing the actual scriptural text alive through the voice and body of the teller

Beth does tell Midrash and First-Person narrative, but her primary art is Text-telling.

"I am passionate about bringing the actual text of Scripture alive for digital culture people, and about using this art to enhance worship in the Church and other religious traditions."








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