Dave Hop

Dave Hop

Contemporary Bible Communicator

Wednesday Riff: This Body

This body, walking, running, stumbling, limping, so diverse At times one step forward, sometimes two steps in reverse This body, old and young, tired, inspired, weak and strong This body, …

‘Life Slips By, Abrahams, Life Slips By’

This week has seen the passing of at least three well known people, Victoria Wood, Prince, and Guy Hamilton – the man who directed four James Bond movies, including the …

Sunday Extra: The Quick and the Undead

With the release of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (yes – really) it set me wondering whether there was anything in the notion of The Bible and Zombies. I know it …

Plans

This week’s midweek moment… We make our plans but God has the last word Life so often surprises me We make our plans but God has the last word I …

The Monday Rewrite: The Inedibles

A bit of the Bible revisited. This week: Genesis 7: 1-4. The sheep and cows and doves are strutting their stuff. They’ve got lots of friends. They feel very confident indeed. …

The Monday Rewrite: Top Dog

A bit of the Bible revisited. This week: 1 Samuel 18 vv 5-16. Whatever Saul asked the famous giantkiller to do, David made a good fist of it. So the …

Guardian Grange Heroes: Part 46

Click here for part 45. Mr Quintius surveyed the eight cadets of Q1. Tiberius Sky shifted restlessly from foot to foot, everything about him larger than life and larger than …

Guardian Grange Heroes: Part 45

Click here for part 44. They followed Mr Quintius out towards the sport fields. Normal and Tiberius were the last and as they followed Podium and Wagget stepped out of …

Guardian Grange Heroes: Part 44

Click here for part 43. ‘So, there was this little girl, and she was massive, I mean absolutely massive. Like a huge monster.’ ‘How could she be massive if she …

Guardian Grange Heroes Part 43

For part 42 click here. The headmaster reached into the safe and pulled out a key. It shimmered and kept changing colour as he held it up. ‘This my dear Mr …

Guardian Grange Heroes Part 42

For part 41 click here. Normal just nodded. ‘How on earth did you get to… well… earth?’ asked the headmaster. Normal told him about diving into the Silver Lake and …

Guardian Grange Heroes Part 41

For part 40 click here. Normal shrugged. The headmaster snapped his fingers and the music came to a stop. Two red leather armchairs were crouching beside a roaring log fire. …

Awesome Ages

They’re as old as the hills – and some of them are older. Some of the Old Testament dudes lived so long their ages look more like telephone numbers. Can …

Who Dost Thou Thinkest Thou Art?

There is an awful lot of begatting in the Bible. Begatting is kind of the Biblical name for producing children. Having said this, look at this list of names and …

Marvellous Mixed-Up Stories

My daughter has this book called Mixed-up Fairy Tales and she loves getting them all wrong – e.g. Prince Charming… bit into… seven dwarves… fell asleep and turned into… a bowl of …

Katastrophic Kings

The Bible contains more Kings than you can shake a sceptre at. In fact there are two whole books dedicated to Old Testament Kings… called…er  … hang on, let me …

I’m A Bible Star Get Me Outa Here!

The Bible is full of celebrities and wannabe stars – here are just a few of them… Queen Esther Esther, what a career. The Julia Roberts of the Bible. A …

Disturbing Disciples

Messiah’s Thirteen – Can You Name ‘em? Not a sequel to a sequel of a movie – but the dudes who went from fishing and taxes and revolutionary gangs and …

Acrimonious Acts

Can you put together the death with the deathee (i.e. the one who died with the way they died)? 1/ Eutychus 2/ Saphira 3/ Herod Agrippa 4/ Stephen 5/ James …