July 8, 2010
Our own Pete Enns is working on a new curriculum, Telling God’s Story: Teaching Your Children the Bible, due out in February 2011. From the Olive Branch Books website:
Millions of parents want to familiarize their children with the Bible, but feel inadequate to navigate its difficulties and don’t know what to do with its obscurities. (Grain offerings? The number of the beast? Winged creatures with four faces?) Too many religion curricula reduce the complexities of the Bible to a jumbled collection of stories, a set of “moral lessons,” or an arsenal of arguments for political positions.
Author Peter Enns (Harvard Ph.D., parent, and educator) knows that teaching the Bible can seem a daunting task. In this new and innovative series, Enns lays out a strategy for introducing young students to the times in which the Bible was written, the men and women who populate its pages, and the vast, many-layered story it tells.
Following the classical pattern of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, Telling God’s Story uses the elementary years to ground students in the basics of the Gospel Message; continues on to encourage critical thought and analysis in the middle-grade years; and encourages high school students to understand the history and implications of the Biblical story.
According to Pete’s blog. Olive Branch Books is the religious instruction imprint of Peace Hill Press, founded by well-known author and homeschooling expert Susan Wise Bauer.