In
Stories
About Jesus In The Synoptic Gospels (volume 9 of The Storyteller’s
Companion to the Bible) (Abingdon), editors Dennis E. Smith and Michael E. Williams
(along with several contributors) takes 25 stories from the synoptic gospels,
offer a new analysis of them as story, then offer a creative retelling of the
story by a contemporary storyteller-preacher. Pastors will find intriguing resources
to use in preaching these texts.