Reimagining Scripture - by Trent Clifford (Paperback)

About the Book

Learn how to engage with Scripture in new and creative ways. After all, the Bible is a book worthy of immersing yourself within.

Book Synopsis

Read the Bible as though you walk through its pages.

Learn how to engage with Scripture in new and creative ways. After all, the Bible is a book worthy of immersing yourself within. It isn't enough to hold it at arm's length or even to study it in depth. Scripture requires imagination, being that it was inspired by a Creator whose deepest desire is for us to co-create with the Divine when we read.

In Reimagining Scripture, Trent Clifford invites readers to journey through the Gospels, accompanying Jesus throughout his ministry as these sacred stories and the people within them reveal the fullness of God's heart.

Review Quotes

If Reclaiming Faith was Trent's way of finding his way back to the Church, then Reimagining Scripture offers the Church a way to fall in love with Scripture with fresh eyes and deeper understanding. Not only does he provide a framework for immersing ourselves in these sacred stories, but he also offers readers a theology of performance-something the theological arts world has desperately needed.

As a dancer, worship leader, and musical theatre enthusiast, I see firsthand how his work speaks to the many spaces where performance and the Church intersect. He takes what has long been a dirty word for many of us and reclaims it completely-something he's getting really good at.

-Lauryn Everic, Pastor, Grace Baptist Church

The best storytellers don't simply tell a story. They invite us to step inside it.

Drawing on his love for both theatre and Scripture, Trent Clifford invites readers into the Gospel stories with curiosity, creativity, and holy imagination. What emerges is not a clever exercise but a deeper encounter with the people, places, and presence of the Holy One woven all throughout these ancient texts.

Thoughtful, disarmingly funny, accessible, and grounded in hard-won wisdom, this book reminds us that the distance between our stories and God's story may be far smaller than we ever imagined. Clifford shows us how Scripture comes most fully alive when we dare to step onto its stage, and after reading this, you'll find it nearly impossible not to try.

-Mary Alice Birdwhistell, Pastor and Writer, TellingtheBiggerStory.com