Bard & Bible

For those of you who have been around the Bard & Bible long enough, you’ve seen me process some of the hardest times of my life by thinning the lines between the real world and my fictional world to have a conversation between myself and my fictional, well, self from… Continue reading

This tale is the last of the current batch of Wandering Bards Guild posts. My voice has healed completely from strep and I’m ready to provide ludicrous voices for intros and talk through scriptures at long stretches again. We’re going to take a break from our study of Genesis for… Continue reading

We continue this run of Wandering Bards with a gentleman I first asked to join the guild quite a while ago. He had a lot going on back then, and much like times I’ve shared where recording delays have only helped bring greater understanding of the text as I brought… Continue reading

I want to thank Derek for putting together this devotion on Genesis 18 for me while I am recovering from strep throat. He stepped in at zero hour to help me keep our recording schedule on time and delivered something that both sounds entirely different than my voice on the… Continue reading

Name changes are a big deal. Name changes for the parents of God’s chosen people are an even bigger deal. In this episode we take a look at what the name changes mean, why they’re important, and how they will impact the undercurrent of all stories involving these two in… Continue reading

Genesis 15 is a big chapter in the overall narrative of Genesis and the Bible as a whole. It is the home of the Abrahamic Covenant – where God formalizes his promises to the patriarch and lets him know He can be trusted to follow through on them. But it’s… Continue reading

We’re back! Back to the Bard & Bible, back to the Nine Realms, and back to the book of Genesis. In chapter 14 we get to see Melchizedek, but we’re not gonna go into anything about Mel, who he is, how he is this mysterious priest king, or whether or… Continue reading

The Keeper has finally made it to Eldrinar to confront some old ghosts. In the previous tales in the trilogy, we’ve seen our boy go through themes present throughout the texts of the Bible and the lives we live as followers of Christ. Forgiveness, reconciliation, redemption, new life. Now, though,… Continue reading

Continuing on my brief hiatus from the stories of Genesis, our friend the Keeper is off to the Palladium to visit his friend Lysander and talk about old times over tea. It was Lysander’s doing that lead to the keeper leaving the choir of warsingers to join the ranks of… Continue reading

The Keeper finds himself traveling in the Sea of Grass – a portion of the realm of Austwaine marked by rolling hills and high grasslands. Sitting beside his campfire one night, he is joined by someone who started out an enemy but would leave as something else. Forgiveness is something… Continue reading