ellsworthlink.net

My friend Krista passed along what I think is an interesting link depicting many Biblical stories all in Lego (my brother David should love this!). Check it out here.

The site is put together by an expressed atheist, but is recommended by numerous pastors and Diocese’s as a way to get children engaged in learning about Bible stories. I find it all very interesting from a bunch of different perspectives. He (the artist/evangelist/jokester Brendan Powell Smith) is extremely faithful to the Bible stories, so on its face can be considered a reliable source. But as you read the press on his site (or this article—which is one of the best of the pieces I read about the site) you see that perhaps his motivations weren’t so pure. In one place I read that he started the project to help people see how “ridiculous” some of the Biblical stories were. But other interviews seem to indicate that people who have spoken with him think he has been affected/inspired(/converted?) by his project.

Anyway, no matter the subtext—you can just enjoy the novelty of fully-illustrated Bible stories on The Brick Testament website and not think too hard about it like I’ve evidently been doing…