What is God’s Stories Cues?
The Netflix show “Somebody Feed Phil” is a food and travel series where Phil Rosenthal goes all around the world to learn from the various food cultures and engage with the people who make each destination so beautiful and unique. In one episode, Phil visits Kyoto, Japan, where food tour guide Yuma Wada takes him to Nishiki Market where Phil eats an eel. He’s told this eel is so dangerous, it could still bite you up to thirty minutes after its head had been chopped off!
Which makes you wonder… who was the first person to discover that?
It’s a good question, because it is this kind of practice that is a bedrock to human civilization: the passing along of information for the good of the group, for the survival of the group, for the thriving of the group. That’s where it starts.
But the transformation of information evolves into being more than just: that eel can still kill you 30 minutes after you’ve killed it. It becomes the passing along of stories, tradition, origin myths and meaning making tales.
Stories do more than just give us knowledge. They give us identity. They make us who we are.
That’s why Curious Faith is so excited to launch a collaboration alongside God’s Stories as Told by God’s Children! Because nothing has shaped our collective human story more than the stories found in the Bible.
When our team at Curious Faith first came across God’s Stories, we knew it was the perfect medium for families to encounter the sacred stories of the Bible. Each story, written with kids in mind, captivated us with the seriousness with which it took Scripture, while also making it easily digestible for children.
And the more we read, the more we began to wonder: why stop here?
What if families could take these creatively told and beautifully illustrated stories and continue engaging with them?
What if we created cues for families that prompted them to meaningful dialogue, reflective exercises, interactive activities, and insights into the more challenging questions that may come up as a result of what they have read?
What if the adults got even more insight into the stories to help them grow in their own faith?
What if the stories were the start, but not the end?
We knew God’s Stories was something special. And so Curious Faith wanted to do everything we could to extend the life and impact it is sure to have on any family who reads it.
That’s how God’s Stories Cues was born—as a way to equip families to take the power of the stories of Scripture and experience them in a way they hadn’t before.
At Curious Faith we believe in the power of stories to shape us. And we believe the stories we are told, the stories we believe, and the stories we pass on, have a power much longer lasting than we could possibly imagine.
That’s why we want to tell the stories that matter, and do it well.
