From Fox News: A crop of new children’s storybook Bibles aims to reach progressive Christians who are turned off by traditional presentations of Scripture, offering messages focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.
Publishers say the projects are meant to reflect the faith values of a changing audience — and to fill what they describe as a gap in faith resources for progressive believers.
“The Just Love Story Bible,” a “justice-oriented” storybook for readers ages four to 10, was released last month. The book, authored by Rev. Jacqui Lewis and the Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, features 52 Bible stories and illustrations portraying characters in Black, Brown and tan skin tones.
“Our agenda is to teach young people a theology of love and justice that we don’t have to unlearn,” Lewis said in an interview with Religion News Service.
“The biblical characters mostly look Black and Brown and caramel … now White children, I imagine, looking in this Bible and seeing brown people and thinking to themselves, ‘Oh, brown people belong to God, too,’” she added.
The authors said they are encouraging children to ask questions and challenge traditional beliefs about God, Jesus and the biblical narrative, and to question, “Did that happen?”
Referring to the story about Jonah and the whale , Daley-Harris claimed, “It’s OK to actually tell kids from the get-go: Some of these stories are about true people and things that really happen, and some of them are made-up stories, but they’re in there because they can still teach us true things about God.”
The authors included a story from Leviticus 19, and touted the lesson as, “You shall love immigrants as yourself, for you were immigrants in the land of Egypt. I am your God.”
“This feels to me like a ubiquitous call to make ‘just love’ the window through which Christianity happens,” said the Rev. Jacqui Lewis, co-creator of “The Just Love Story Bible.”https://t.co/kdVgusIN54
— RNS (@RNS) October 19, 2025
Progressive publishers launch woke children’s Bibles, because apparently the old one was too… Biblical https://t.co/b8fAFDTEmg
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) October 20, 2025
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