...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.
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