{"id":2811,"date":"2008-09-19T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/god-talks-children-listen.html"},"modified":"2008-09-19T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T13:17:00","slug":"god-talks-children-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/god-talks-children-listen.html","title":{"rendered":"God talks, children listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Los Angeles comes this story of an ingenius new tool for teaching children about scripture: a talking bible.  <\/p>\n<p>Really. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tidings.com\/2008\/091908\/bibletalk_text.htm\">The Tidings<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Three years ago, St. Paul the Apostle parishioner Pamela Fischer woke up one morning in Los Angeles with a new vocation. The 48-year-old wife and mother of two St. Monica High School students and a college freshman art major had an idea for a book project. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt an inspiration from the Holy Spirit to get together a Bible storybook for little ones,&#8221; said Fischer. Although she was a publishing neophyte, she wasn&#8217;t daunted by the challenge of producing a battery-operated Bible for pre- and early-readers. The recently-released book, which has been approved by the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education, is titled: &#8220;This Bible Talks! A Child&#8217;s First &#8216;Press &amp; Play&#8217; Bible Storybook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t question the Holy Spirit when you feel it strongly. In discernment, I felt very comfortable and at ease and at peace that this was something I should do,&#8221; said Fischer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Continue at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tidings.com\/2008\/091908\/bibletalk_text.htm\">the link<\/a> to find out how it came together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Los Angeles comes this story of an ingenius new tool for teaching children about scripture: a talking bible. Really. From The Tidings: Three years ago, St. Paul the Apostle parishioner Pamela Fischer woke up one morning in Los Angeles with a new vocation. 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