Judas and his mother tell their stories. From Jesus, Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran.

Pontius Pilate and his wife, Claudia Procula, look back at their encounters with Jesus.

Two poems for Christmas & the New Year: Christmas Bells by H. W.  Longfellow & Ring Out, Wild Bells by A. L. Tennyson

In this comedy, a discriminating thief exposes the sham of a pretentious couple.

A story about love and sacrifice with a typical O. Henry surprise ending.

The Creature asks Dr. Frankenstein to create a mate for him. An episode from the novel by Mary Shelley.

"The Onion" from "Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Little Demon and the Crust of Bread" by Leo Tolstoy and "On the Day of the Crucifixion" by Leonid Andreyev

Three Roman soldiers speak to Jesus as they nail him to the cross.

Twain's condemnation of the celebration and glorification of war and his revealing of the true consequences of praying for victory in war.

A series of brief monologues spoken by persons and animals associated with the birth of Jesus. Compiled from works by several authors, including Dorothy L. Sayers and Madeleine L'Engle

A comedy in which a ghost, whom no one is afraid of any longer, shares his woes with a writer on Christmas Eve.

Not everyone was happy about the miracles of Jesus. Edgar Lee Masters imagines what the reactions of three people in the Gospel might have been to the miracles.

A barber chair is the location for the dispensing of justice.

A fairy tale about a statue and a bird and about giving and self sacrifice.

A series of monologues spoken by people associated with the arrest and trial of Christ.

Death takes on human form for three days to investigate life among mortals.

The Wise Rabbi is a series of short Jewish folktales, both humorous and serious, which reflect the wisdom of the traditional rabbi and his place of respect in the Jewish community. The tales were gleaned from various Eastern European Jewish collections.

The Lightning Rod Man is a short audio play based on the story by Herman Melville. Melville is best known to us as the author of such classic novels as Moby Dick and Billy Budd. But Melville also had a lighter side. In The Lightning Rod Man he has fun contrasting the person who appreciates and embraces life, despite all of its hazards, with the person who fears it. The short play opens during a thunder storm, when a man selling lightning rods shows up at the door of a man who is in awe at the...