{"id":833,"date":"2008-04-02T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2013-06-27T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:36:16","slug":"touchstone-magazine-on-not-diluting-bible-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Touchstone Magazine on Not Diluting Bible Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this blog may have seen my concern about how far too often modern bible stories water down the truth of the biblical account seeking to make them more palatable to children but in the end distorting the biblical witness. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\/Personal\/rvannest\/Bible%20literature%20for%20children.htm\">brief article<\/a> on this from several years ago is part of what prompted me to begin this blog.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s Touchstone magazine includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstonemag.com\/archives\/article.php?id=21-03-022-f\">great article<\/a> which examines how many children&#8217;s Bibles dilute the story of Jonah in this way. The subtitle captures the key point:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><em>In Removing the Fear from the Story of Jonah, <\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><em>Children&#8217;s Versions Remove the Gospel, Too<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>I encourage you to read the article. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstonemag.com\/index.html\">Touchstone<\/a> is a great, stimulating resource. I greatly enjoy the magazine and recommend it to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this blog may have seen my concern about how far too often modern bible stories water down the truth of the biblical account seeking to make them more palatable to children but in the end distorting the biblical witness. My brief article on this from several years ago is part of what prompted &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=833\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Touchstone Magazine on Not Diluting Bible Stories&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}