(RNS) — The Rev. Jacqui Lewis, a New York City pastor, and the Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, an associate dean of a seminary in the city, teamed up to reach young readers with a colorful Bible focused on justice and love.
“The Just Love Story Bible,” released last month by Beaming Books, a children’s book publisher, follows a theme Lewis has long preached at Middle Collegiate Church, a multiethnic congregation in Manhattan’s East Village affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
“This feels to me like a ubiquitous call to make ‘just love’ the window through which Christianity happens,” Lewis, 66, said in an Oct. 8 interview with Daley-Harris, 60, associate dean of Auburn Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights…