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 not he is a type or preincarnate appearance of Christ — this is a story about Abram, God, and how that relationship grows and impacts on not only this family, but the entire world. So let’s talk about how Abram spends chapter 14 stepping into all the things God told… 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

After having to deal with COVID coming to visit our family (everyone is fine now, but it was pretty much ever present for some time), I’m getting back on the podcasting horse with a bit of a journey. My keeper is going to do some of his own wandering for… Continue reading

When she’s not composing ballads behind the bar with Benny, Shaneen is the driving force behind The Hoot & Howl – a blog for all things nerdy across a variety of subjects. She can also be found chatting and streaming with the folks at 1 Geek 4:11. In this third… Continue reading

Continuing our partnership with our friends at Mythos & Ink to celebrate the release of their new volume of Thy Geekdom Come, I sat down to talk to James Felix from the Geek At Arms podcast about his contribution to volume 2 — engaging with the radical, life changing forgiveness… Continue reading

Between a planned trip out to New Jersey to see my family over the holiday weekend and an assortment of work and health (both mental and physical) issues, I had another instance of spending more time in a text than my original scheduling offered me. As usual, God has used… Continue reading

We’re still celebrating the release of Thy Geekdom Come 2 from our friends at Mythos and Ink. What better way to celebrate our friend’s new release than with a discussion with our OTHER friends about their contributions to the book? First up is Ashley Mowers who talks about the two… Continue reading

Over the years I’ve been doing Bard & Bible I’ve noticed some hermeneutical “lenses” I use to help me refresh my mind and challenge me to not simply drop back into the ruts of study and application that I know and have in my toolbelt like some sort of dollar… Continue reading

Have you ever stopped to ask yourself what it must have been like for Jesus as he prayed for the metaphorical cup to pass from him? Have you wondered why the same God who knew the road would always lead to cross would ask three more times there in the… Continue reading

The Tower of Babel is a story of pride. Mankind’s pride and dismissal of all that God had given them, in their own ability, and their own authority. We’ve heard about God judging these people in a way that lead them to get over themselves and listen to God –… Continue reading

When first the nations were born that would become the Nine Realms – eight leaders came to parley and define their boundaries. There was one who had stayed at home among the trees and dared any would-be-ruler to try and claim them. Thus were the Free Peoples of the Greatwood… Continue reading

To celebrate our 50th tale and three years of the Bard & Bible – we get to have another moment where the Mike Perna of the real world gets to talk to our resident dwarf bard. This time we talk about how the B&B started, the trip it’s been, and… Continue reading