Kathy Brasby Blog
The Bible: master storytelling
A few years ago, I was involved in a nonprofit fundraising event. In previous years, the director had presented the budget, the needs and the annual giving - the facts. But this time, we convinced her to contract a short video which captured a slice of the...
The funny thing about cars
I’m not a big fan of car commercials because I really don’t think the right car will give me peace, bring my family closer together, or define my sophistication index. But I do like to tell car stories. Like this one. We were filling our car at a little gas station in...
The Bible: how context is vital
Last week we looked at recurring imagery in the Parable of the Wicked Tenant. Today we’re revisiting the same parable. We’ll look at how context is important and how the author developed his ideas using the parable as part of a panorama of meaning. The parable appears...
My video spinner
My teenage son wants to be a multimedia expert, which has thrown his mother into a bit of a spin. Can one pay the rent while making YouTube videos and designing websites? He’s 17 so of course one can. I suggested to him today that maybe he should have a backup plan....
No words for that
Words are my thing but sometimes they just escape me. Like the guillotine story. Our older son was 11 at the time. He and his younger sister, who was 6 at the time, were cooking up adventures all afternoon. At that time, our family had 40 acres of grassland accented...
The Bible: repeated images
Vineyards appear throughout the Bible as vivid images. Many references to them appear in the Old Testament and then Jesus used the imagery numerous times in his teachings as recorded in the New Testament. We read about the Exodus of Israel described in the language of...
How a prowling rooster fared
Now I like chickens as well as most people, which is hardly at all, but roosters have an even lower place. I was under the age of accountability (determined by my lack of maturity in this case) when my little sister jumped on her bike to ride around our farmyard. She...
The Bible: dialogue matters
When we read biblical narratives, we need to pay close attention to the dialogue. That's where the action is, so to speak. Dialogue carries most of the punch of the story. Biblical narratives are tightly written with no extra words. Every sentence does heavy lifting...
Connecting with Google Easter eggs
Once the joke was that if you needed your VCR/TV/voicemail set up, adopt a 12-year-old to do it for you. As I watched my grandson at 18 months slide his fingers over my smartphone screen, I think the age requirement may have dropped. But what’s with children grasping...
