Ooh, as a preschool teacher and a progressive Christian, progressive religious kidlit is one of my minor hobbies. There are a lot of great picture books: God's Holy Darkness, Mother God, anything by Matthew Paul Turner. But buying in-person is very hit and miss, because the audience is small.
And I wonder if it drops off with the middle reading levels. Progressive Christian parents buy picture books that we feel good about reading to our kids after all. But appealing to kids who read themselves seems much harder in general. There's a reason celebrities ghostwrite progressive picture books and not progressive 3-5th grade chapter books, after all.
For now we have a Spark story bible. It doesn't have white, blonde Jesus, so I'm happy enough with that. But my daughter is not terribly interested in it. She likes the bits of church you can do (communion, shaking hands) more than the Bible.
No,might just.Seeking a wonder as to why anyone would find something worthy of worship,that would conceive of hell,much less create it. Tip,forget that the entire "Abrahamic Mythos" ever existed.
When I was 13 I decided to read the entire Bible cover to cover over summer vacation. Upon reading the entire thing I decided I really wasn't cut out to be a Christian anymore. Prior to that I even taught Sunday school to younger children. The bookstore clerk was right. It does belong in the horror section.
I never read any Bible to my children when they were small, though they met various religions at school. I rather wish now they had imbibed a little more, but as background and part of a western education, not as something they should believe. I still read every time I go into one of the many churches here in East Anglia, from Revelation 10, verses one to six. But that's because when I was a child I read a book called Tom's Midnight Garden, was much taken with it, and remembered what was on the grandfather clock that played an important role. And how please I am when I find it is an old King James version, in the language of late Elizabethan and early Stuart.... the language of Shakespeare.
there's something to be said for regarding the Bible as literature. It certainly has had a huge influence on the western cannon. Though Revelation has always felt like a hallucination to me
Also, have you ever seen the Lego Bible?? It is the most graphic kids Bible I’ve ever seen - it is the entire Old Testament - like everything - but depicted in legos 😂😂
We do not read the Bible together, but the only kids version we still have is the desmond tutu version (but the story about Jesus being tempted in the desert has a devil with a pointy tail so we’ve skipped that one for my highly anxious kid 🙃😝). I’m in a season of no Bible, but then I ordered the book “new New Testament” by Hal taussig so we’ll see if I actually read it when it gets here. 😅 I love that you framed it in the context of myth and gave them permission to disagree this seem like a beautiful way to introduce it.
Ooh, as a preschool teacher and a progressive Christian, progressive religious kidlit is one of my minor hobbies. There are a lot of great picture books: God's Holy Darkness, Mother God, anything by Matthew Paul Turner. But buying in-person is very hit and miss, because the audience is small.
And I wonder if it drops off with the middle reading levels. Progressive Christian parents buy picture books that we feel good about reading to our kids after all. But appealing to kids who read themselves seems much harder in general. There's a reason celebrities ghostwrite progressive picture books and not progressive 3-5th grade chapter books, after all.
For now we have a Spark story bible. It doesn't have white, blonde Jesus, so I'm happy enough with that. But my daughter is not terribly interested in it. She likes the bits of church you can do (communion, shaking hands) more than the Bible.
Great recs. Thanks, Jannah!
same.
No,might just.Seeking a wonder as to why anyone would find something worthy of worship,that would conceive of hell,much less create it. Tip,forget that the entire "Abrahamic Mythos" ever existed.
When I was 13 I decided to read the entire Bible cover to cover over summer vacation. Upon reading the entire thing I decided I really wasn't cut out to be a Christian anymore. Prior to that I even taught Sunday school to younger children. The bookstore clerk was right. It does belong in the horror section.
it's kind of insane to try and make it appealing to kids, right? So much rape and genocide!
OMG. Revolve. Now that's a throwback!
I feel like we need a support group to break down the weirdness that was Revolve
I never read any Bible to my children when they were small, though they met various religions at school. I rather wish now they had imbibed a little more, but as background and part of a western education, not as something they should believe. I still read every time I go into one of the many churches here in East Anglia, from Revelation 10, verses one to six. But that's because when I was a child I read a book called Tom's Midnight Garden, was much taken with it, and remembered what was on the grandfather clock that played an important role. And how please I am when I find it is an old King James version, in the language of late Elizabethan and early Stuart.... the language of Shakespeare.
there's something to be said for regarding the Bible as literature. It certainly has had a huge influence on the western cannon. Though Revelation has always felt like a hallucination to me
Also, have you ever seen the Lego Bible?? It is the most graphic kids Bible I’ve ever seen - it is the entire Old Testament - like everything - but depicted in legos 😂😂
I've skimmed through it. I kind of love how they just lay everything out there
It’s true - no precious moments 😂
We do not read the Bible together, but the only kids version we still have is the desmond tutu version (but the story about Jesus being tempted in the desert has a devil with a pointy tail so we’ve skipped that one for my highly anxious kid 🙃😝). I’m in a season of no Bible, but then I ordered the book “new New Testament” by Hal taussig so we’ll see if I actually read it when it gets here. 😅 I love that you framed it in the context of myth and gave them permission to disagree this seem like a beautiful way to introduce it.