“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”

Back in the 20th Century, scripture was read in church as if it was very dull stuff indeed. “Only Connect!” (E.M. Forster’s story of forgiveness, Howard’s End) may have been suggested, but there was not much passion behind those words.

The 21st century, three years of a plague, and our invitation from Jesus, seem to offer us a new way of telling “the Good News.” In a day of play making and four stories from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we will connect (in spite of masks!) with each other and enjoy the Gospels. We will “rehearse” and at the end of our time together, share our newly created Good News stories.