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    Two for the Chancel
    Two for the Chancel
    Two for the Chancel
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    Two for the Chancel

    By Lowell Uda

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    Two for the Chancel includes two Reader's Theater light dramas to be performed in the church chancel. The theme of The Easy Button is How freedom to choose came into the world and what it means for us, and of Four Drumsticks, Respecting God’s Creation while Honoring Mind and Community.

    In The Easy Button, the serpent tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit and to share it with Adam. Their eyes are opened, and Eve plans some improvements to the Garden. The serpent brings an Easy Button to the couple, and they fight over it. But in order to cover themselves before God arrives, they also learn to divide the work, though they each want to possess the Easy Button.

    In Four Drumsticks, at dinner time, Alice, 12, brings up what she’s learning in science class as the family tries to meet everyone’s demand for their favorite part of the chicken. The three children and the father each want a drumstick. There are, of course, only two.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRice Universe Publishing
    Release dateApr 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301928859
    Two for the Chancel
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    Lowell Uda

    A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I have taught English at the U. of Hawaii and the U. of Montana, and worked in Montana state government. After that I became a United Methodist minister, pastoring churches in Colorado and Montana. My short story, “The Cherry Tree,” won first prize in the 2011 Common Review Short Story Prize contest. Stories, poems, and creative nonfiction of mine have appeared in literary and other magazines, including The North American Review, the Hawaii Review, the Chariton Review, and, most recently, A River and Sound Review, Written River, The Whirlwind Review, 5x5, Assisi, In Our Own Voice, Divide: Journal of Literature, Arts and Ideas, Poems Across the Big Sky, Moonrabbit Review, and The Other Side.Sincerely yours,

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      Two for the Chancel - Lowell Uda

      Two for the Chancel

      By Lowell Uda

      Published by Rice Universe Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright Lowell Uda 2013

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      The Easy Button

      Four Drumsticks

      Brief Bio of the Author

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