Join Tim and his ten-year-old son Elliot as they reflect on four very different children’s Bibles. From garden fruit and floods to talking donkeys and fat kings, they wander through ancient stories that are sometimes inspiring, sometimes confusing, and sometimes just plain weird.

Along the way, they wrestle with big questions: Is this real? What does it mean for a story to be true? And what makes the Bible different from other books?

With curiosity, honesty, and a few jokes along the way, Tim and Elliot explore what it means to read the Bible together—when one of you has years of Bible baggage, and the other’s never even heard of Samson.

Links to Bibles:

• The Book of Books: The Bible Retold by Trevor Denis
• My Big Story Bible by Tom Wright
• God's Stories as Told by God's Children by The Bible for Normal People
• The Book of Belonging: Bible Stories for Kind and Contemplative Kids by Mariko Clark

 

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Like the podcast, our theme music is also homegrown—written by Elliot and produced by our friend Wilderthorn.