unique book

I stumbled across a book by Steven James called Story. James is a poet, storyteller and conference speaker. He uses those skills to paint an interesting overview of the Bible. Starting with creation and ending with revelation, he simply launches it in story form. He weaves in his poetry and at times modernizes the characters to frame a really compelling look at scripture. Here is an example of his poetry.

when i was young i drank cases and cases of dreams

because that was all i could afford and it was the only thing

my grocer kept in stock. but i never became drunk, because i didn't learn how

to swallow them deeply enough.