By Jeremy Clines To offer stories, week-by-week, to children, as if they are biblical narratives, when what is offered is a smaller amount of biblical material framed within a much longer theological narrative conceals the act of interpretation. The ‘Parables’ … Continue reading
By Cath Kennedy Western Christianity is taught using stories of forced marriage. Religious materials for children have a lifelong effect, orienting cultural ideas of belonging, virtue and family life. So what children learn about the Bible is important. In Godly … Continue reading
By Jeremy Clines There is a strangeness in typecasting the region stretching from the Levant to Mesopotamia as a ‘desert’ when it would more ordinarily would be described as the Fertile Crescent. There is an oddness in embodying much of … Continue reading
This is the second of two blog posts about Myriam with Dr. Kirsi Cobb of Cliff College. The previous one can be accessed here. For those of us who grew up in the 1970’s and 80’s, the baby in the … Continue reading
The biblical character Myriam, sister of Moses, features relatively prominently in children’s Bibles and Bible stories, despite only appearing a handful of times in Exodus and Numbers. Sacred Texts’ Cath Kennedy sat down with Kirsi Cobb who lectures in Old … Continue reading