Laura Cerbus, Author at Redbud Writers Guild

Old Testament Threads in Gospel Stories

ByLaura Cerbus September 1, 2021August 27, 2021

Unlike the people of Jesus’ day, or any modern-day religious Jew, most of us do not have the Old Testament as part of our collective memory. Unlike us, the Israelites of Jesus’ day had in their imaginations signs, images, and longings that were formed through their people’s history and the work of God among them….

Poetry

Mending

ByLaura Cerbus April 1, 2021March 23, 2021

There’s a pile in my closet: a skirt too small, a shirt too stained, pants too worn. They wait, expectantly, for a transformation, for deft scissors and clever thread, a re-imagination of grace. But I hang in the moment between the death of the old and the…