FINDING THE STORY OF JESUS IN WAUCHULA

Low expectations can self-dampen an experience. My trying Catholic-Christian self was skeptical walking into the volunteer run, stage production The Story of Jesus. With many emotion-churning movies and books on Jesus’s life, how could a stage production with its one visual angle, sound, and acting limits possibly top them? In Wauchula, FL of all places?…

PUTTING THE BASS IN THE MASS

The debate of classical versus contemporary music during a Catholic mass. Suddenly, the piano stopped pa-plinking, the singers stood straighter, and a reggae-ish beat began to wind its ways through the pews. I wasn’t in some Baptist church… I was in Corpus Christi Catholic Church! Whoa… aren’t Catholic masses the one where everyone sings like…