ALL ABOUT NOBS
HistorySo how did the Network of Biblical Storytellers come to be?
Read more about the history of NOBS ...
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Core Values
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Membership InformationMembership dues support our mission to tell the sacred stories of the Biblical tradition and to help each and every one of you in your storytelling ventures.
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The
Academy for Biblical Storytelling
provides a process of training and support in certifying biblical storytellers
who possess a significant degree of skill and experience in both performance
and teaching, and who will function as commended resource persons to offer
services on behalf of NOBS.
The
NOBS Seminar
is a group of professors at seminaries and colleges around the United States,
and fulltime professional storytellers and clergy who use storytelling as a
central dimension of their ministry.
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Local NOBS Guilds are located throughout the U.S. and the world. Find a Guild
in your area.
No Guild near you?
Interested in leading a Biblical Storytelling Workshop?
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If your church or other group would like to host a Biblical storytelling event,
a number of NOBS members are available.
To insure that you find a right storyteller for your event, we suggest that you communicate with the teller in advance. Find A Storyteller
If you are a current NOBS member and would like to be included in the Storyteller Directory, you may submit your information to the NOBS office.
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The core activity of the Network is telling the sacred stories of the biblical tradition in post-literate, digital culture. This practice is rooted in a communal process of internalization through scholarly inquiry and prayer.We encourage varieties of expression and presentation of the sacred stories in oral, written and communication systems. There are many kinds of biblical storytelling from midrash, to contemporization, to first person monologues. NOBS advocates all kinds of storytelling but commends especially the practice of telling the texts as they've been traditioned to us. We have discovered biblical storytelling as a spiritual discipline that involves first committing a narrative text of scripture to deep memory (not memorizing but "internalizing" the story as images and feelings) and then engaging with the text in a lively "telling," a sacred act that binds teller and listeners in community. Learn more about Biblical storytelling in the multimedia presentation, What Is Nobs? |
Storytelling VideosYou may watch them online, or download them to your computer.
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