Network of Biblical Storytellers (NOBS) Gathering 2007We participated in the NOBS gathering for this year in Norcross, GA. The keynote speaker was David Rhoads, a professor at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He performed Paul's letter to the Galatians and Philemon. Having read those letters many times over the course of my nearly 40 years as a Christian I was impressed with the difference it made hearing and seeing them performed in their entirety. The impact from the non-verbal and auditory communication plus receiving the letters in full was amazing. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in the Bible. Most likely, this is the way the first hearers in Galatia and among the church that met at Philemon's house received these letters.
We also attended workshops on dramatic tellings, hymns and Bible stories, epic tellings, and parallels between African moral tales and Bible stories.
