Monday Rewrite

Monday Rewrite

Familiar Bible passages, seen with new creative eyes

Monday Rewrite: Fotoshoppe Your Faith!

Is your faith looking pale, patchy and colourless? Are you tired of all those glitches in your belief system? Annoyed every time your theology crashes? Well, don’t despair! You can now tart …

Monday Rewrite: The Quiet

For a while he is with his father again and he is free. The years of oppression and restriction fall away. They are in the mountains together, creating wild goats …

Monday Rewrite: Two Lost ePistles (from the Dead Sea iParchment)

31. Saul 1 Samuel chapter 18 from thefirstandonlyking@totallyabsolutelyunequivocallyincharge.dontanswerback to thepeople@stopsingingthatstupidsong.bownow To you lot I’m tired of people saying I’m double-minded. I see there was another post about it on FaceScroll …

Monday Rewrite: Voting

(A couple of angels are chatting in heaven.) Why’s it so quiet round here? Where’s all the usual music and laughter and creative spark? It’ll be time to vote soon. …

Monday Rewrite: The Big Day

An angel is on the phone. A second one enters. Hold the phone, it’s off again. What? (He lowers the phone) Cancelled. Well, postponed. You’re kidding. Nope. Not again. But …

Monday Rewrite: The Sermon

We went to church. We arrived late and there were a lot of people. So it was standing room only. It was a beautiful warm day, perfect for a wedding, …

Monday Rewrite: The Table

Cain wandered into the park and collapsed on a bench. Then he heard the noise. The sound of sucking and belching and careless chewing. He looked up and saw them. …

Monday Rewrite: Meeting Ruth

They were sitting by the side of the road. One old enough to be the other’s mother. And beautiful with it. Scowling but beautiful. The younger woman was smiling. Not …

The Monday Rewrite: Jonah’s Song

I was so deep in thought and so desperate that I didn’t notice the hole in the ground till it swallowed me up. I landed at the bottom of some …

The Monday Rewrite: The Commission

[Also appropriate for Ascension Day] Hill – Pant and huff    Walk/Walked – Make walking steps, or the sound of steps Gift – “It’s for you!”   Leave – Wave, say …

The Monday Rewrite: A Long Time Ago…

For Star Wars day, (May the 4th be with you) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away A time of peace was ticking away. When an empire …

The Monday Rewrite: The Quest

One day an explorer decided to go on a quest to find god. He wasn’t too sure about the whole thing – he thought there might be some form of deity out …

The Monday Rewrite: The Garage and the Mayor

There was a town with a very generous mayor. He bought new cars for everyone and for a while everyone was fine. But then the cars began to breakdown, so …

The Monday Rewrite: Body Parts

I don’t know if Paul was into cartoons but the picture he sketches in 1 Corinthians 12 about bits of the body could well make a good Pixar short. An …

Monday Rewrite: Lost Treasure

And it came to pass that there was a time when everyone believed in themselves and some things had been lost in the chaotic past. They worked and played and rested …

Monday Rewrite: Diary of A Wimpy Christian

A few extracts from the ramblings of a 50-something battling with his fears, failings and frustrations: Day 3 Out to work. Which means not going out. I work from home. …

Wilderness Days

It was a body blow, this latest challenge. Bread and stones were one thing (he’d soon be making bread but not this way, feeding thousands from practically nothing), but using …