Biblical storytelling draws us into the story as it has been told for two thousand years. As we hear the stories, they become our own and we know that we are truly the people of God.

There are many kinds of biblical storytelling from midrash, to contemporization, to the first person analogues. The Network of Biblical Storytellers (NOBS) advocates all kinds of storytelling but commends, especially, of telling the texts as they've been given to us in scripture. This practice is rooted in a communal process of internalization through scolarly inquiry and prayer.

"We have discovered biblical storytelling as a spiritual discipline that involves first commiting a narrative text of scripture to deep memory (not meorizing but "internalizing" the story as images and feelings) and then engaging with the text in lively "telling," a sacred act the binds teller and listeners in community."

~Dina Ferguson, D.Min
Director of Christian Formation for Youth
And Adults at St. Cross by the Sea Episcopal Church
Hermosa Beach, CA

This is the "why" of a Biblical Storytelling Center (BSC)