Emphasis Preaching Journal
I haven't heard a production...
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I haven't heard a production of Marc Conneley's play, The Green Pastures, for a number of years now. It's too bad, because it presented the Gospel in an idiom to which many people responded.
The setting was a black Sunday school in the South and, although the characterizations are surely unacceptable today, some of its symbols still pack power.
The setting was a black Sunday school in the South and, although the characterizations are surely unacceptable today, some of its symbols still pack power.