Performance of Scripture

"Sprockets" Advent!

"Sprockets" Advent!

Elizabeth's leaping womb and Mary's words of joy are especially enhanced when SNL's Sprockets (or a Sprockets-inspired group of seminarians) provide the interp! 

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The Mispronunciation is the Message! (The Comedy of Pentecost)

The Mispronunciation is the Message!  (The Comedy of Pentecost)

And you thought having to say "Zerubbubel" and "Maher-shalal-hash-baz" was hard, even though important....

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For God So 'Ugh'd' the World....

For God So 'Ugh'd' the World....

Did Jesus want us to find comedy in his crucifixion?

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Silliness and Sacrifice

Silliness and Sacrifice

There was a time when the Bible (even "The Sacrifice of Isaac") was presented as something like a cross between the Obergammergau's Passion Play and Monty Python's Flying Circus....

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Pussy Riot Palm Procession

Pussy Riot Palm Procession

A modern "seriously playful" counterpart to what Jesus was up to, for your consideration, as we enter Holy Week 2014....

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Engaging the Powers Engagingly

Engaging the Powers Engagingly

My favorite theologian, Walter Wink, most entertainingly demonstrates how Jesus taught his followers to be peacemakers, emerging God's Realm of justice, harmony and joy for all through practical, effective, and hilariously clever acts of intentional non-violence.

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