{"id":3905,"date":"2013-01-15T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2013-01-15T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T10:00:30","slug":"gods-upside-down-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/2013\/01\/15\/gods-upside-down-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"My Next Book: God&#8217;s Upside-Down Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m excited to be able to tell you about the writing project that\u2019s kept me busy since I finished <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eat-Joy-Redeeming-Gods-Gift\/dp\/0830836586\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eat with Joy<\/a>\u2014<\/em>a book about Jesus for children with the working title <a href=\"https:\/\/olivebranchbooks.wordpress.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>God\u2019s Upside-Down Kingdom.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Equally appropriate for church-based Christian education, homeschooling, or Christian school, <em>God\u2019s Upside-Down Kingdom<\/em> is the third volume of the <em>Telling God\u2019s Story <\/em>series, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/olivebranchbooks.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Olive Branch Books<\/a>,the religious education division of Peace Hill Press (who publish the fabulous <a title=\"Do YOU Know the Name of Alexander the Great\u2019s\u00a0Horse?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/2012\/08\/13\/do-you-know-the-name-of\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Story of the World<\/em> <\/a>by Susan Wise Bauer, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welltrainedmind.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Well-Trained Mind<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Scholar (and blogger) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/peterenns\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Enns<\/a> wrote the introductory text and the first two volumes of the series, which I\u2019ve been using with my children at home. 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