{"id":31025,"date":"2015-07-13T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31025"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T20:08:06","slug":"different-bricks-different-bibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/different-bricks-different-bibles.html","title":{"rendered":"Different Bricks, Different Bibles"},"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>Now that it has been published, I wonder whether anyone will do a comparison between <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1632207303\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1632207303&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=NZCLQEVTIKKZXEAZ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Unofficial Holy Bible for Minecrafters: A Children\u2019s Guide to the Old and New Testament<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1632207303\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">, <\/i>and<i> <\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1620871726\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1620871726&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=CS2YO5RVLMSEJ7OS\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Brick Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1620871726\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/i>which is most definitely not aimed at children. How do they approach their storytelling? What is similar and different about them? How do the different aims of the authors lead to different results?<\/p>\n<p>Have any readers of this blog\u00a0taken a look at both the <em>Brick Testament<\/em> series and the <em>Holy Bible for Minecrafters<\/em>? If so, I\u2019d love to hear your thoughts!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1632207303\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1632207303&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=NZCLQEVTIKKZXEAZ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1632207303&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1632207303\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1620871726\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1620871726&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=CS2YO5RVLMSEJ7OS\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1620871726&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1620871726\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1616084219\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1616084219&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=HZ63OZFNPCJBWPZ6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1616084219&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1616084219\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it has been published, I wonder whether anyone will do a comparison between The Unofficial Holy Bible for Minecrafters: A Children\u2019s Guide to the Old and New Testament, and The Brick Bible\u00a0\u2013\u00a0which is most definitely not aimed at children. How do they approach their storytelling? What is similar and different about them? 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