One of my favorite responses to certain theological questions was from someone who said, \u201cHow can anyone know that?\u201d If religious people are honest, they accept that there are many unanswered questions about God and the spiritual realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A delightful and beautifully written and illustrated new children\u2019s book deals with one of those mysterious questions: What does God look like? Drawing God<\/a>, <\/em>written by Karen Kiefer and illustrated by Kathy De Wit, tells the story of Emma, a young girl who is inspired to draw like Picasso after a field trip to an art museum. She decides to draw God as \u201cthe brightest sun.\u201d After Emma shows her drawing to a friend who tells her that she drew the sun, not God, Emma draws God as a loaf of bread. Once again, a friend tells her she hasn\u2019t drawn God. After another drawing is rejected by her friends, everyone in her school knows about her drawings of God and they start drawing God \u201c\u2026and every picture was different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author Karen Kiefer was inspired to write the book when she overheard two children talking about how \u201cyou can\u2019t talk about God at school, because it makes people too uncomfortable.\u201d Kiefer has not just written a book but launched a movement. November 7 is World Drawing God Day, an event to \u201cconnect children around the world, and to unleash the contagious faith that lives in each one of them.\u201d The World Drawing God Day section<\/a> of The Drawing God website has a wonderful Idea Kit to use with the book and there\u2019s even a patch for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The suggested activities could be used at home or in Sunday school or another children\u2019s ministry or intergenerational event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is published by Paraclete Press<\/a>, which celebrated the book by creating their own Drawing God pictures<\/a>; quantity discounts are available from Paraclete. You can also purchase the book from Amazon<\/a> and other online and brick and mortar booksellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my favorite responses to certain theological questions was from someone who said, \u201cHow can anyone know that?\u201d If religious people are honest, they accept that there are many unanswered questions about God and the spiritual realm. A delightful and beautifully written and illustrated new children\u2019s book deals with one of those mysterious questions: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review-blog","tag-drawing-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10339,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/10339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}