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Picking up from The Manga Bible to The Rhyme Bible to The Manga Bible (8/19/2011), More on The Manga Bible by Siku (8/20/2011), Siku: concept/art for The Manga Bible (8/22/2011), and Akin: Script for The Manga Bible (8/23/2011) . . .

I came across this Youtube clip, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoQcpD3Km9Q, of Akin sharing The Manga Bible with school kids in London (BBC).

The power of art and storytelling to engage. Is the The Manga Bible what the youth need today? I like the idea of a 'first step.' It's not where they are dwell as there is teaching/wisdom alongside (and informing) the action of the Biblical story. Maybe in some ways the The Manga Bible is also prophetic wake-up call needed by some in the church to remind them of the gritty Bibilcal story. A question, one might come away with is, "How much of the Bible do you really read and such has does that inform your life as shared with God and others?" If I was revising, I'd seek to weave in the central themes of creation care/culture-making (left out of creation account) AND the Shema (Loving neighbor question is answered by 'The Parables of Jesus: The Good Samaritan,' but I don't remember Loving God, Loving others being explicit).