I could not agree more about the Bible being read aloud badly, it really annoys me! I often wonder if folk really think about what they are reading, rather than just the words. I remember being tasked with sorting out the readings for a secondary school Christmas service when I was teaching there (science teacher but as a Christian I got the job!). The head boy was reading the passage where the shepherds are afraid of the angels and could not have been more monotone in practice. I suggested he imagined that it said 'and the shepherds were bricking it and needed a change of clothes' and read it like that... One of the greatest compliments ever when an elderly lady, at the end of the service, was overheard saying 'Well, I have been to this service every year for 72 years but have never realised how scared the shepherds were until this year. I might have to think a bit about God now.'
Bruce Kuhn is incredible (I still remember the first time I saw him by the Moot Hall at Keswick, many years ago).
Looking forward to the novel, and now off to read Jude!
I could not agree more about the Bible being read aloud badly, it really annoys me! I often wonder if folk really think about what they are reading, rather than just the words. I remember being tasked with sorting out the readings for a secondary school Christmas service when I was teaching there (science teacher but as a Christian I got the job!). The head boy was reading the passage where the shepherds are afraid of the angels and could not have been more monotone in practice. I suggested he imagined that it said 'and the shepherds were bricking it and needed a change of clothes' and read it like that... One of the greatest compliments ever when an elderly lady, at the end of the service, was overheard saying 'Well, I have been to this service every year for 72 years but have never realised how scared the shepherds were until this year. I might have to think a bit about God now.'
Bruce Kuhn is incredible (I still remember the first time I saw him by the Moot Hall at Keswick, many years ago).
Looking forward to the novel, and now off to read Jude!
Thanks for the brain food James.