Hi, I’m Christine Woolgar. Here at Faith in Grey Places, I explore Scripture through creative writing—whether that’s 🖋 poetry, 📝 prose or 🎭 drama. I write to offer encouragement and fresh perspectives for everyone who wants to build their faith and connect with God, particularly through a greater understanding of the Bible.
This site is full of devotional, reflective and thought-provoking pieces! You’re welcome to use them in worship—and I’d love to know if you do! Contact me here. If you use my work, please credit me and include a link to this site.
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Matthew on Money — short dramas exploring what the gospel has to say about finances
I’m currently writing short satires, exploring what Matthew’s gospel had to say about money.
- On giving to the poor: ‘The Silent Finance Awards’ (a comedy based on Matthew 6:1–4)
- The rich young ruler: ‘The Sacrifice of Inheritance’ (a drama based on Matthew 19:16–30)
- Jesus sends out the twelve: ‘The Miracle Method’ (a satire based on Matthew 5:5–15)
- The Three Wise Wives (a short drama based on Matthew 2)
- Offering and Greed: The Apocalypse of Price Gouging (a satire based on Matthew 21:12–13)
- Putting God before grifters in your household budget (a satire based on Matthew 15:1–12)
Other narrative sermons in the form of monologues
- Two Boys From Nazareth (a sketch about John the Baptist’s ministry)This is a monologue / narrative sermon based on Matthew 3:1–12. It explores repentance from the point of view of an anonymous man.
- Skandalon: Mary teaches the boy Jesus
A monologue based on Luke 2:41–50. Mary describes her experience and heartache from when Jesus visited the temple as a boy. - His name is John: Elizabeth writes to Mary
A monologue based on Luke 1:5–25,57–80. Elizabeth writes a letter to Mary shortly after the birth of John the Baptist.
Browse other series
🖋 Agency in Passiontide and Easter: fourteen poems exploring agency and choice in stories of Jesus’ passion and resurrection
🎭 Living with conflict: six duologues as Samuel meets with the young girl from Israel (2 Kg 5), Ezekiel, John the Baptist, Peter’s wife, Jonathan and, lastly, Jesus
🖋 Songs of the Spirit: poems for Pentecost and the fruit of the Spirit
🖋 The God who…: twelve poems celebrating God’s actions, inspired by Hebrew verbs
📝 Cloud of witnesses: twenty letters to the people listed in Hebrews 11, from Abel to Samuel
🖋 Christmas ‘nine lessons’ poems: nine poems based on the nine readings in a traditional carol service
📝 Advent to Epiphany daily studies: forty reflections and studies to explain Christmas (no prior knowledge assumed)
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Faith in Grey Places is the sister-site of my blog Light in Grey Places. You can read more about me and about my theology there.
