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BIOGRAPHY DENNIS DEWEY, MINISTER OF BIBLICAL STORY
Dennis Dewey has performed and led storytelling
seminars all over North America, Europe, New Zealand, Australia,
Korea, South Africa and Israel. Ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA), he has been engaged
full time in this itinerant, ecumenical ministry of biblical story since 1992.
"The way to open the scriptures to post-literate culture," Dewey says, "is to let people hear these powerfully
entertaining stories as they were originally experienced: as breath and sound and life, not as
silent ink on paper."
Dennis Dewey has been a featured presenter at the annual Festival Gathering of the Network of
Biblical Storytellers (NOBS), and has performed and/or taught at hundreds of churches and at
institutions such as Princeton Theological Seminary's Institute of Theology, the Joseph
Campbell Festival, the National Storytelling Festival, and the 209th General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church (USA). In 1997 he performed for 36,000 Lutheran youth in the
New Orleans Superdome and in 1998 for the Thanksgiving Day television special "A Gift of Stories". Dewey is a graduate of Hartwick College, where he majored in philosophy but lived in the
theater, and of Princeton Theological Seminary, where his academic concentration was in
liturgy. He also holds a Masters Degree equivalency in education from the State University
of New York. He makes his home in Utica, New York with his wife and three children. Dr. Thomas G. Long, noted homiletics scholar and author says, "Dennis Dewey does not
merely memorize the texts; he absorbs them, embodies them." Dr. Thomas Boomershine, co-founder of the Network of Biblical Storytellers says, "Dewey's the best there is!" "How I Became the World's Only Professional Biblical Storyteller" "As a Virtuoso Plays a Stradivarius, Dewey Performs the Scriptures"
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