Showing posts with label Journeys from the Land of Jah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journeys from the Land of Jah. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 14)
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 11)
Monday, June 07, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 10)
The Adventurer and his father have come to the town of Greater Faithville. Their new friend Flying Man takes them to the Miracle Meeting for an experience they will not soon forget.
Crazy Tales about Religion and Worldviews
These are tales of an adventurer taking a journey outside the village he was raised in to see the world, and discover what other people believe. The goal of these tall tales is to poke fun at belief systems and present them in such absurd characterizations as to present our beliefs as they might be seen from the standpoint of the outsider who thinks we are crazy.
The Adventurer is every person, and the isolated village he comes from is the Land of Jah - the world of Christianity. His travels take him into the land of Jah, and outside to far more divergent faith systems. So far the Adventurer has traveled outside the Land of Jah into psuedo-Christian Gnosticism, Free Thought Atheism, and a land of New Age relativism. Now he is beginning a journey back into the villages of Jah to meet Word of Faith, Revivalist, and Deliverance Ministry villages.
In the end I hope to pick on everybody equally - including myself (already done a little actually). Baptismal views, reformed theology, and extreme views of grace will get equally made fun of with materialism, astrology, and waiting for flying saucers to come and take us away.
There is a goal in all these silly tales of religion and worldviews: To help us see ourselves in the same light that we judge others in, and understand that perhaps our beliefs are at times as equally absurd to others as theirs are to us.
These podcasts are loose tellings from a first draft of the story. They are presented in oral tradition storytelling form for this first release of this concept with hopes of getting feedback from friends.
After I have set out about twenty podcasts I will return to ask questions which come from each podcast, and hope to start dialogue about the absurdities presented.
If you have been listening in - thanks. You can download the chapters on the iTunes store - simply type in my name Phil Wyman, and it should come up. Or of course you can start listening here on this blog.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 9)
The Adventurer and his father begin a short journey into the land of Jah with the goal of finding other adventurers who are interested in helping the dispossessed of the world. On their first day, they come to the large town of “Greater Faithville,” and find a surprising new friend.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 8)
Friday, May 21, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 7)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 6)
The Adventurer and his growing troupe of children leave the Land of the Freemen to discover the Land of Earthly Bliss, where all is peace and love, everyone holds all things in common, and everyone is the master of their own destiny - or so one would be led to believe.
This chapter is a bit wilder than the previous, and is the longest thus far at 15 minutes and 38 seconds.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
This chapter is a bit wilder than the previous, and is the longest thus far at 15 minutes and 38 seconds.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 5)
Journeys from the Land of Jah continues with the Adventurer and the little dark haired girl - his new traveling companion enter the Land of Freemen, and encounter a wild-haired man in a cage.
These stories are read in one sitting and include all the mistakes of live storytelling. At most these stories have been told only once or twice, and as the tale continues the readings will be first tellings.
This fifth chapter is 11 minutes and 12 seconds long.
These stories are read in one sitting and include all the mistakes of live storytelling. At most these stories have been told only once or twice, and as the tale continues the readings will be first tellings.
This fifth chapter is 11 minutes and 12 seconds long.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 4)
Journeys from the Land of Jah is a missional tale. The first 3 chapters have primarily been introductory to the longer tale now before us.
In this 4th chapter our Adventurer leaves the Land of Jah, and enters the Land of Him Whose Name we only Share in Secret. Our tale begins to take the wacky twists and turns of a tall tale, and not just a little irreverence toward the funny things we humans believe.
In this 4th chapter our Adventurer leaves the Land of Jah, and enters the Land of Him Whose Name we only Share in Secret. Our tale begins to take the wacky twists and turns of a tall tale, and not just a little irreverence toward the funny things we humans believe.
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 3)
Journeys from the Land of Jah (Chapter 2)
This is the second chapter of the missional tale Journeys from the Land of Jah.
Our Adventurer has traveled the wide road which leads out of the land of Jah only to discover that it never left the land at all, but only went in big circle. We begin with him sitting in the road crying, after having traveled for many days only to discover he has gone nowhere.
This episode is 9 minutes and 14 seconds long.
Listen to this episode
Link to Episode 1
Our Adventurer has traveled the wide road which leads out of the land of Jah only to discover that it never left the land at all, but only went in big circle. We begin with him sitting in the road crying, after having traveled for many days only to discover he has gone nowhere.
This episode is 9 minutes and 14 seconds long.
Listen to this episode
Link to Episode 1
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Journeys from the Land of Jah
This is the first chapter of my missional tale. I will be releasing these in storytelling oral tradition first, and as written tales later.
Journeys from the Land of Jah begins rather benignly and becomes more absurd as the tale continues. If you feel that I am making fun of religion, just wait - I'll get to yours and make fun of it soon enough. The fable is a long story of the journeys of an young bard who lives in a land where everyone believes just one thing. He chooses to become an Adventurer and he comes in and out of the land of Jah in his journeys to other places where people believe other things.
I certainly don't have the quick wit, command of the English language, or adept social commentary of G. K. Chesterton, but the absurdity of these tales gathers some of its impetus and silliness from his brilliant fiction.
Here is Chapter 1 of Journeys from the Land of Jah - unedited and laid out in one sitting, which is how each of the following chapters will be done. So far I have 7 chapters completed, and plans for another 5 more are in the works. I foresee this becoming like the Canterbury Tales, but only in this sense: certainly not because I am brilliant like Geoffrey Chaucer but because it will be long and still incomplete. The potential for chapters is only limited by the number of crazy things we humans believe.
I have told some of these chapters at The Gathering, and in the evening service we have stopped at the end of each chapter to consider the story. Do you find biblical allusions, or similarities to philosophies or belief systems in this tale? If so, stop and consider it, or even listen with a friend and talk about it. For now, here is chapter one, and the first part of the introduction to the greater tale called Journeys from the Land of Jah: a missional tale.
This episode is a little over 13 minutes long.
Listen to this episode
Journeys from the Land of Jah begins rather benignly and becomes more absurd as the tale continues. If you feel that I am making fun of religion, just wait - I'll get to yours and make fun of it soon enough. The fable is a long story of the journeys of an young bard who lives in a land where everyone believes just one thing. He chooses to become an Adventurer and he comes in and out of the land of Jah in his journeys to other places where people believe other things.
I certainly don't have the quick wit, command of the English language, or adept social commentary of G. K. Chesterton, but the absurdity of these tales gathers some of its impetus and silliness from his brilliant fiction.
Here is Chapter 1 of Journeys from the Land of Jah - unedited and laid out in one sitting, which is how each of the following chapters will be done. So far I have 7 chapters completed, and plans for another 5 more are in the works. I foresee this becoming like the Canterbury Tales, but only in this sense: certainly not because I am brilliant like Geoffrey Chaucer but because it will be long and still incomplete. The potential for chapters is only limited by the number of crazy things we humans believe.
I have told some of these chapters at The Gathering, and in the evening service we have stopped at the end of each chapter to consider the story. Do you find biblical allusions, or similarities to philosophies or belief systems in this tale? If so, stop and consider it, or even listen with a friend and talk about it. For now, here is chapter one, and the first part of the introduction to the greater tale called Journeys from the Land of Jah: a missional tale.
This episode is a little over 13 minutes long.
Listen to this episode
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