Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne The bishop orders, “Stand for the Gospel!” When the worshippers are the community of monks, he never issues this order because the benches are stacked away and everyone is already standing, as are the monks today, standing in the back of the room. It is the dignitaries and guests forContinue reading “#72.6, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025”
Category Archives: Bible Stories
#70.7, Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery I opened the beautiful pages of this gospel to a place where I know I will find Jesus’s love for all the people interconnected as the vine. [John 15] Usually, I can look past these intrusions of fear and judgment and just picture Jesus as I remember himContinue reading “#70.7, Tuesday, July 15, 2025”
#70.6, Thursday, July 10, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery Ealdwin still chips away at the stone. I say, “Seeing everything from a Christian point of view may have skewed my understanding of the Vikings.” “How is that possible that truth can only be known from a Christian point of view?” “I’ve heard that said.” From this place byContinue reading “#70.6, Thursday, July 10, 2025”
#70.4, Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery On this terrible day Brother Ealdwin and I have been burying the dead left in the wake of the Viking raid. There are more empty cells where monks lived, than are the number of bodies we buried. Apparently, more monks than just Brother Ealdwin escaped death, but theyContinue reading “#70.4, Tuesday, July 8, 2025”
#69.6, Thursday, June 12, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Monastery Some of the marauders are returning to the boats with blood on their swords and laden with the booty they’ve stolen. No one from the monastery is chasing them. Gunnar knows my Christian nature and he chooses me to help in opening what might be Christianity’s greatestContinue reading “#69.6, Thursday, June 12, 2025”
#69.4, Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Lindisfarne Island The red shirts have the longships pulled onto the sand facing the sea waiting for the signal. We talk among ourselves. “I was once a Christian.” “I am still a Christian.” I answer. “How can you be a Christian when we belong to the pagans andContinue reading “#69.4, Tuesday, June 10, 2025”
#68.11, Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Mooring at The North Sea We are given the slave orders for the journey. But really the only thing slaves need to know is obedience. “Slaves are assigned two to a longship, one with the bow rowers, and the other at the stern taking orders from the coxswain.” TheContinue reading “#68.11, Tuesday, May 27, 2025”
#68.8, Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Mooring at The North Sea [Art note: painted by this blogger copying a photo by Carol Ann Munro taken on an early morning on the SW side of Lake Michigan] Is the source of heaven only in the human imagination? Is it a pondering we all share as humankind of aContinue reading “#68.8, Tuesday, May 20, 2025”
#67.9, Thursday April 17, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne My rowing mate shows me his collection of chism and he’s telling me a perception of Christianity I’ve been critical of from time to time, but in my own constant devotion to the simple Jesus love, I’ve never considered the collection of wealth as the very nature of Christianity.Continue reading “#67.9, Thursday April 17, 2025”
#66.5, Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Historical Setting: 793 C.E. Skåne I was asking a history question. “What was the tragedy that made these Norsemen brutal?” The answer the seiðr offers is to take me to a rocky shore with a ruin of a house and tell me I don’t know human nature. “In the far north, where theContinue reading “#66.5, Wednesday, March 12, 2025”
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