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Simply Christian, Chapter 14: "The Story and the Task"

// posted Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010 by Jo Ellen Weedman

Reading the Bible to children isn’t for the faint at heart. The story, it turns out, is not rated G. And if reading about death and sex and greed isn’t enough, there’s a chance the language they hear from Bible reading or by well-meaning Sunday school teachers gets a strange interpretation by their still literal minds. Last spring, while reading a science textbook with my 7-year-old about the circulatory system she nearly gave up her faith. “See Mom, I knew ...