Calling Time on Water into Wine
And how it’s the perfect ending
My Water into Wine stand-up theology show will be performed for the last time at Holy Trinity, Combe Down on 27 April at 7.30pm.
It couldn’t be a more fitting location, since it is yards away from Monkton Combe Junior School, the place where I really grew in faith into which I had been baptised.
What’s more, Combe Down is in Bath, the abbey of which I mention a couple of times in the show. It’s not only place where I read John 1 at a school carol service (which I wrote about on my very first article on this Substack).
Bath Abbey has a link to the Water into Wine story in the Gospel of John. In John 1:51, the verse before the story starts, Jesus says to Nathanael:
And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
This is an unambiguous reference to a dream that Jacob has while on the run from his brother Esau in Genesis 28. You can see it depicted on the Western front of Bath Abbey. (See the ladders running up the towers?)
So if you’re anywhere near Bath on 27 April at 7.30pm, why not come and see me do the show for the last time?
The Streaming Special
If not, and you’d like to see show, you’ll be pleased to know it’s going to be made available as a ‘comedy special’, or a ‘stand-up theology special’ from 12thMay.
I’ll be writing about aspects of the show and dropping clips between now and then. So if you want to keep informed on that, you’d better subscribe:
And as a taster, here’s a clip relevant to the Easter story, which Christians have somehow managed to make boring, despite some astonishing verses about zombies tucked away in Matthew’s passion narrative:
If you’d like more coherent, less flippant Easter thoughts, I wrote this about Good Friday and why people have to die:
Or this one about how Easter is funnier than it first appears?
And of course here’s my ‘classic’ bit on Peter and John running to the tomb:
Could Jesus Have Sinned?
And if you’re still reading, well done! You’ve earned this link to the Keswick Convention podcast about Jesus’s humanity and whether he could have sinned (nope), with Sam Allberry (pastor, apologist, author), Matthew Mason (Pastors' Academy, Crosslands Cultivate) and Ben Cooper (Cornhill Training Course) It’s hosted by Rachel Redeemed and yours truly and it’s a really good one!
The Composition We Can’t Stop Using
Watch this is by my friend, Nate Morgan Locke. 11 1/2 minutes very well spent: