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Month: August 2025

BUaDS – Chapter 71 – Converging Streams of Beginnings and Endings

BUaDS – Chapter 71 – Converging Streams of Beginnings and Endings

A featureless grey in all directions that wasn’t cold or hot, light or dark, no variation. An unbound awareness that cannot find form, a sense of a wave preparing to rise and then flattening out. The greyness fractured and instantly re-assembled, changing and unchanging at the same time. In an instant the quiet grey became a point of light with a pulsating brightness. The lightening and darkening point spread out into a line, fading in and out and changing colours….

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Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – Making the Scriptures Entertaining

Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – Making the Scriptures Entertaining

What would it take to create a Christmas Pageant Play that was true to the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s birth, but would also accurately describe the people, places and events of the time? What would it take to make this story scripturally and historically accurate, but also highly entertaining? My last post showed how I tried 40 years ago to make the Christmas Story scripturally accurate, and it turned out to be a snooze-fest. Let’s move on to how to…

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Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – The Low Entertainment Value of Scriptural Accuracy

Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – The Low Entertainment Value of Scriptural Accuracy

My Norwegian mother raised me and my sister with a very strict upbringing, following an uncritical and literal interpretation of the Bible (ie. the world was flat and was less than 10,000 years old) and some very bizarre rules like we couldn’t use scissors on Sunday or use eating utensils with our left hand, and the words “hate” or “shut up” were swear words that we got our mouths washed out with soap for saying. My sister and I came…

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