Category Archives: Bible

The Last Sandwich

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Henry Neufeld

“I’d like the sandwich you have in that bag.” It was the odd way he said it and the foreign accent that made her stop and look to her left.  He was sitting on the sidewalk with his back to … Continue reading →

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Comforted

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Henry Neufeld

She wasn’t comfortable with this visit, but it was her duty.  He had lost his son just three weeks earlier and she had conducted the funeral.  The death had been sudden, tragic.  The man had lost his wife only three … Continue reading →

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Learning from Stories

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Henry Neufeld

I’m almost afraid to write about how one can learn and teach from stories, because I think a piece of literature requires only one justification–that somebody wants to read it. Come to think of it, it may need only that … Continue reading →

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Psalm 121: A Translation and Poetic Response

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Henry Neufeld

OK, this is playing around. The first is a translation with some freedom, but with an effort to convey just a little bit of the rhythm of the Hebrew. It needs some more work. The second is just me having … Continue reading →

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Blogroll Addition: Nuggets of Gold

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Henry Neufeld

I located this site because it was added to the Moderate Christian Blogroll.  The writer uses stories in a very inspirational way.  I intend to keep track of it, so even though I display the Moderate Christian Blogroll, I’m going … Continue reading →

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Book: Pilate’s Wife

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

This book is well out of the norm for my reading, but the topic caught my attention, as well as the dearth of information with which the author had to work. It is hard to write a good novel about … Continue reading →

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The New Judge

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

[Note: This is one of my attempts to tell either a different part of a Bible story, to tell the story from a different perspective, or to get a similar point across in a different way. I will quote the … Continue reading →

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Book: Unashamed

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

My wife handed me this book because she has been trying to get me to read one of [tag]Francine Rivers[/tag]‘ stories about various Bible characters. I’m generally a bit slow to pick up this sort of book because production of … Continue reading →

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Writing Lessons from the Bible

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

I located this post through preparations for the Christian Carnival #179. Due to the time frame requirements on posts I couldn’t include it in the carnival, but I wanted to call attention to it in any case, as it’s a … Continue reading →

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Psalm 103 as Blank Verse

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Henry Neufeld

OK, here’s another try at transforming a Psalm, in this case, by putting it into blank verse. There are some wonderful parallelisms in Psalm 103, but a great deal of that impact is lost on English readers. Here I try … Continue reading →

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