The Benedictine community originated lectio divina, which is a practice of slow, meditative, reflective engagement with scripture. The Benedictine community of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville has been the source of the first hand illuminated Bible in 500 years — the St. John’s Bible. They have also explored a form of lectio that works with
Ben Cieslik, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, has been gradually inviting people into telling their stories in the context of the community. It’s a great example of sharing individual stories contextualized in the midst of the scripture the community is studying. Here’s one of the videos, but you can find at the church’s blog.
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Here’s a useful list of tips for doing biblical storytelling with children. The tips are just as useful for whatever kind of story you might want to tell, though!
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Bruce Feiler has an interesting piece in the NYTimes in which he describes the power of family narrative. His work mirrors much that has been written about in digital storytelling. I particularly appreciated this comment: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability
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I’ve loved most every Pixar film ever made, which is really quite extraordinary, when you think about it. Here is a list of Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling. Which one appeals to you?
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The Center for Digital Storytelling, a community of people and resources that have been at the heart of the digital storytelling movement for more than 20 years, has just begun a blog — the Storycenter Blog – which promises to be a rich resource for all of us who are trying to do this work
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Here’s a powerful example of what can happen with a community shares its stories more broadly, using digital tools and social media. …sharing our stories allows us to share our lives. Sharing our stories allows us to create new partnerships like the one that we now have with people of neighboring Christ Church, Oyster Bay
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Although this blog post is not about digital storytelling, I think the points she is making apply equally well to digital stories. It might be that a congregation such as this could even consider recording the stories as they are told, and sharing them in wider contexts!
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One of the more promising uses of digital storytelling in faith formation has been the pairing of young confirmands in Christian churches with a video camera, and a member of their community they don’t know well who is at least 40 years older than they are. The combination sparks a unique kind of interview process
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We are hoping to gather examples from all over of ways in which people are using digital storytelling in faith formation. Here is an example that comes from Cheryl Smith, who is the Eastern Region Resource Administrator in the Roman Catholic diocese of Syracuse, New York. As catechists we are always looking for ways to
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