Israeli military strikes Hamas in Gaza after group allegedly breaks ceasefire

The Israeli military conducted strikes against Hamas in Gaza after accusing the terrorist organization of repeatedly violating its ceasefire agreement on Sunday.

An Israeli military official confirmed the strikes to Fox News on Sunday, pointing to attacks by Hamas since Friday. The IDF later confirmed that it was taking actions in Gaza. 

“Earlier today, terrorists fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire toward IDF troops operating to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in the Rafah area, in southern Gaza, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement,” the IDF said in a statement.

“In response, the IDF has begun striking in the area to eliminate the threat and dismantle tunnel shafts and military structures used for terrorist activity,” it continued.

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Israel has responded by striking areas in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he has instructed the minister of defense and other security heads to “act forcefully” in reaction to the attacks.

Hamas claims it has “no knowledge” of any attacks against Israeli forces, releasing a statement on Sunday saying it was still abiding by the terms of the agreement.

“We affirm our full commitment to implementing everything that has been agreed upon, foremost among which is the ceasefire in all areas of the Gaza Strip. We have no knowledge of any events or clashes taking place in the Rafah area,” the group wrote.

“We have no connection to any events occurring in those areas, nor can we communicate with any of our fighters there if any of them remain alive,” it added.

The reported attacks on Israeli troops come after Hamas spent days fighting Palestinian rival groups after the ceasefire went into effect.

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According to Reuters, Hamas executed at least 33 people in recent days in what officials described as a campaign to “show strength” after the ceasefire. Israeli sources say most of those killed belonged to families accused of collaborating with Israel or supporting rival militias.

The U.S. Department of State warned on Saturday that Hamas may break the peace agreement with a “planned attack” on Palestinian civilians.

“This planned attack against Palestinian civilians would constitute a direct and grave violation of the ceasefire agreement and undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts,” the department said in a statement on social media. “The guarantors demand Hamas uphold its obligations under the ceasefire terms.”

“The United States and the other guarantors remain resolute in our commitment to ensuring the safety of civilians, maintaining calm on the ground and advancing peace and prosperity for the people of Gaza and the region as a whole,” the statement continued.

President Donald Trump warned Hamas on Friday that continued attacks on Palestinians would force the U.S. and Israel to intervene.

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“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” he wrote on X.

Louvre museum targeted in daring theft as suspects steal priceless treasures

Thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris and stole priceless jewelry before escaping on motorbikes, French officials said Sunday.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called the heist a “major robbery” that “lasted seven minutes.” Speaking to France Inter, he said the thieves “entered from the outside using a basket lift” and “a disc cutter” to slice through glass panes containing precious jewels.

“The investigation has begun, and a detailed list of the stolen items is being compiled,” the ministry said in a statement. “Beyond their market value, these items have inestimable heritage and historical value.”

The museum posted on X it would remain closed for the day for “exceptional reasons,” though it did not immediately provide details. No injuries were reported.

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According to French daily Le Parisien, the thieves entered through a section of the museum under construction along the Seine River. 

The crew reportedly used a freight elevator to access a room in the Apollo Gallery, which houses part of the French Crown Jewels.

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The crew stole “nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress,” including a crown believed to have belonged to Empress Eugénie, the newspaper reported. The crown was later found broken outside the museum, the report said.

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The Louvre houses over 33,000 works spanning antiquities, sculpture, and painting — from Mesopotamian artifacts and Egyptian relics to masterpieces by European artists. Its iconic treasures include the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

Actor tells Trump ‘no chance’ Chicago will be ‘fascist hub’ during protests

Actor John Cusack sent a message to President Donald Trump during a “No Kings” protest in Chicago on Saturday during an interview with CNN, telling the president to “go to hell.”

“What’s interesting is that he doesn’t understand that all the labor rights around the world came from this town, this place,” Cusack told CNN. “So if he thinks this place is going to be a fascist hub — no chance.”

“Go to hell,” he said, saying that was the message from Chicago when prompted by a reporter.

“No Kings” demonstrations broke out across the country on Saturday to protest the Trump administration. 

Cusack, an outspoken progressive, told CNN that the country was founded on “no kings.”

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“Everyone knows the score, right? The authoritarians divide and conquer and they create an ‘other’ and then they pick on it, pick on the person, harass them, jail them, and that’s all used as a direction so they can steal as much as they can [and] maintain power,” Cusack said. “We all know history. So, that’s what he’s doing, and we have masked goons roaming the streets, hiding their faces, abducting people.”

The “No Kings” protests first mobilized back in February on President’s Day to denounce the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency and cuts to the federal government. 

The movement gained national prominence in June, when Trump held a miliary parade honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also fell on his 79th birthday. 

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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel compared the “No Kings” protests to the American Revolution on Thursday.

Kimmel defended the planned “No Kings” rallies, saying the cause reflects what those who fought for American independence believed in. 

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“There is nothing more American than a political protest. The American Revolution was a ‘No Kings’ protest,” Kimmel said.

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Trump team’s Bluesky debut sets off outrage among users on left-leaning platform

The White House officially joined the liberal-leaning social media platform Bluesky on Friday with a gleeful post of President Donald Trump’s “greatest hits.”

In its first post, the Trump administration appeared to poke fun at the platform’s liberal users, many of whom joined the site to escape conservative voices. Many once-prominent users of Twitter, now known as X since Elon Musk bought it, solely post on Bluesky. 

“What’s up, Bluesky? We thought you might’ve missed some of our greatest hits, so we put this together for you,” the post read, featuring a reel of the administration’s top-performing memes.

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“Can’t wait to spend more quality time together!” it continued, adding a heart emoji.

The 52-second video includes clips from Trump’s rallies and meetings with foreign leaders. 

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At the start, he can be heard saying, “My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over. In fact, our fight has only just begun.

“We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.”

The video then shifts to showcase some of the administration’s most viral memes.

They include an image of the autopen replacing former President Joe Biden’s photo in the White House, a “Daddy’s home” meme referencing NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s well-known phrase, a sombrero and mustache superimposed onto House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and an AI-generated image of Trump dressed as the Pope, among others.

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Bluesky surged in popularity after billionaire Elon Musk’s 2022 purchase of Twitter, now rebranded as X. The platform also grew following Trump’s November 2024 presidential election victory. 

In June, Vice President JD Vance also joined Bluesky. 

“Hello Bluesky, I’ve been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I’m thrilled to be here to engage with all of you,” Vance wrote.

Vance’s initial post was briefly banned by the platform after being flagged as a potential impostor account. The company later reversed the ban, telling Fox News Digital in an email, “We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky.”

Vance posted an AI video to Bluesky of Trump putting on a crown Saturday in a trolling response to the day’s “No Kings” protests.

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The White House wasn’t alone in joining Bluesky. Several other Trump administration agencies — including the departments of Transportation, Health and Human Services and Homeland Security — also launched Bluesky accounts on Friday.

Tactics of ‘Dr Antifa’ turned on him before professor bolted to Spain

A Rutgers University professor nicknamed “Dr. Antifa,” who fled the U.S. for Spain after saying his home address had been doxxed, and his family threatened, portrayed doxxing as a legitimate tactic for use against political opponents in his seminal work. 

Mark Bray, who now teaches his history courses for the public New Jersey university online from abroad, is best known for his book, “Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook,” published in 2017. 

That book, which is based on 61 interviews with “current and former anti-fascists from seventeen countries in North America and Europe,” references doxxing in a positive light three times. 

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On page 87, Bray quoted a Danish Antifa interviewee named Rasmus Preston, who said doxxing is “‘a very important tool to create conflict within far-right movements’ by causing a ‘constant mental burden.’”

In another instance, Bray relayed the story of Antifa Nebraska scoring a “major victory” by doxxing a political opponent, noting that the far-left group “printed thousands of flyers with his name, photo, and information on his Nazism and plastered them around town, forcing him to drop out of college, take down his social media, and go into hiding.”

The book offers an appendix where Bray invited his interview subjects to provide advice to fellow or prospective Antifa members. A source named Brett A advocated in favor of doxxing as one of many tools in Antifa’s political war. 

“Ideally, you want a diverse squad with members who have different talents,” Brett said. “Some folks will be best used on the front lines in confrontations (usually strong, fit people who can fight if need be), some folks need to be really good with intel gathering (monitoring right-wing pages, doxxing, etc.), some folks need to be good at graphic design for flyer campaigns, some folks need to be well-versed in security culture, etc. The more diverse your organization is, the better equipped it will be at effectively organizing and staying safe.”

Brett alluded to another tactic supported in Bray’s book: violence. 

Antifascism is not just one tactic, but many, and those include “combinations of physical confrontations, doxxing, infiltration.”

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Fascists are defined ambiguously as the “Far Right,” which Bray speculated could evolve into something worse than fascism. Throughout the book, though, he referenced the MAGA movement and opposition to the Trump administration. 

Bray openly praised the violent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown’s death involving police.  

“Moreover, these riots pushed police brutality and black oppression to the forefront of the national consciousness in a way that ‘nonviolent’ tactics could not have achieved on their own,” he wrote. “Yes, most Americans were repulsed by the sight of looting and burning, but for once they were forced to take note of the scale of injustice. Subsequently, Black Lives Matter cultivated a very significant base of popular support despite having a ‘violent flank.’”

On page 64 of the book, Bray relayed the story of Italian Antifa groups Autonomia Operaia and Lotta Continua from the 1970s. He described those groups as “militants wearing ski masks and bandannas, armed with clubs, iron bars, Molotov cocktails, and sometimes handguns.”

He justified the groups’ violent outbursts with a talking point often used in far-left circles in the U.S. today. 

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“While the expressed purpose of such marches may have been opposition to fascism, the state and the entire capitalist system were implicated in fascist violence, and therefore legitimate targets for widespread looting and property destruction,” Bray wrote. 

The book later claims that “anti-fascism must necessarily be anticapitalist.”

Later, he described the Autonomen in Germany, a group descended from Autonomia Operaia. He fawned over the group for inventing black bloc, the now-ubiquitous black head-to-toe uniform Antifa groups wear worldwide.

He described a “direct action” where the group “dressed in black with their faces covered by motorcycle helmets, balaclavas, or other masks to create a uniform, anonymous mass of revolutionaries prepared to carry out militant actions, sometimes involving weapons such as flagpoles, clubs, projectiles, and Molotov cocktails.” 

Censorship is viewed as a powerful tool in fighting the people Bray calls fascists, too. 

His book roundly rejects free speech absolutism, and rages against “liberal anti-fascists” whom he characterizes as being too stalwart in their defense of open debate. 

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“When militant anti-fascists successfully deprive fascists or white supremacists of a platform to promote their agenda, ‘liberal anti-fascists’ often argue that shutting them down is counterproductive because it only gives them more attention.… Anti-fascists argue that any rhetorical benefit gained from such confrontations is outweighed by their reduced ability to disseminate it,” Bray wrote.

“Liberal anti-fascists,” Bray complained, have too much “faith in the inherent power of the public sphere to filter out fascist ideas, and in the institutions of government to forestall the advancement of fascist politics.”

Bray even briefly touched on internet censorship, which he favors. 

“The Internet is a platform that anti-fascists cannot completely contest, though efforts to persuade Reddit and other forums to ban racist threads have borne some fruit,” he said. 

The history professor fled the U.S. to Spain after President Donald Trump announced that he would designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. After that, the Turning Point USA chapter started a petition to have Bray fired. 

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Bray said he received threats and was doxxed, prompting his move overseas. 

He did not return a request for comment.

‘Nobody’s spending $17 on an egg sandwich,’ say restaurant owners amid high inflation

Diners already concerned about the cost of eating out may be disappointed to learn that many restaurants are considering raising prices to keep up with inflated food and drink costs.

Restaurant management software company Toast recently released its 2025 Voice of the Restaurant Industry Survey, revealing that improving profitability was the top concern for operators headed into next year.

Operators ranked inflation (20%), marketing (16%) and hiring (16%) as their top three business pain points.

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Nearly half of all 712 restaurant decision-makers surveyed (48%) said they plan to increase menu prices if inflation continues to be a factor.

The National Restaurant Association estimates that, to maintain a 5% profit margin, the average restaurant needs to raise prices by 31%, according to data compiled by the D.C.-based industry trade group earlier this year.

“Raising menu prices is typically a last resort for restaurant operators, but with the rising costs of food and labor, their operating math still has to work,” Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Restaurant Association, told Fox News Digital.

Small business owners like Michael Brafman, who operates The Sandwich Board in New York City, are concerned about it.

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“The basic math is whatever product you have, you divide it by .3, and that’s what the product should cost to the consumer to operate at that healthy margin,” Brafman told Fox News Digital. “If the prices continue to increase, there’s only [so much] that the consumer will be willing to pay.”

The sandwich shop owner said he wrestled with this issue during the egg crisis.

“I held out a long time to raise the [price] of our egg sandwiches,” Brafman said.

He added, “You can only get away with charging so much for an egg sandwich. … Nobody’s spending $17 on an egg sandwich just so you can keep your margins.”

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He tacked on an extra dollar, he said, “which was very marginal, but people were concerned.”

Increasing menu prices can be an added challenge when the business is new.

“It’s always a tenuous line to walk,” Brafman said. “It is a game of chicken.”

Since opening The Sandwich Board last year, Brafman said he’s seen a spike in the cost of proteins.

“Proteins are increasing exponentially — eggs, dairy, meat, poultry, all of the core parts of the sandwich,” he said. “When a steak per pound goes from $7 to $11, that’s an unrealistic price increase.”

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Passing that off to customers could spell bad news for cost-conscious diners.

“I have people [who] come here repeatedly per week, and that’s the fear,” said Brafman. “How many times will they stop coming because the cost is prohibitive?”

John Loeffler, innkeeper and chef at The Inn at Gristmill Square and Waterwheel Restaurant in Virginia, said he’s been watching similar trends play out, just at a different price tier.

“Beef is always a huge, huge seller for us. It is one of our more popular items,” Loeffler told Fox News Digital. 

In June, a whole loin of certified Angus ribeye cost $14.75 a pound, he said. Today, it’s $17.99.

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As costs climb, keeping guests happy becomes about more than the food alone, Loeffler said.

“How do you make money, sell people something that they feel good about and feel a value, even at a higher price point?” he said. “I think that’s the challenge facing all restaurants — adding value as menu prices go up.”

After 30 years in the business, Loeffler said he’s learned to think differently about profit.

“I think about margins less than percentages,” he said.

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His approach often means absorbing part of the cost to preserve the dining experience.

“At the end of the day, we’re in the business of taking care of people, nourishing them, making them feel good … and making them feel good about spending money. That’s our job.”

Trump library will bring jobs and prestige to city’s bustling downtown, developer says

South Florida developer Gil Dezer, who has partnered with former President Donald Trump on several luxury real estate projects, says it’s no surprise Trump chose Florida for his presidential library — and believes Miami is “ready” to carry the weight of that legacy.

“How great is it that we’re having it here? From all the different cities and states he could have chose, I mean, Florida showed him a lot of love, and he’s showing it right back at us,” Dezer told Fox News Digital. “So we’re very proud to have it here in Florida, in Miami.”

Earlier this month, Florida officials approved plans for Trump’s presidential library to be built on a prime parcel in downtown Miami, next to the city’s iconic Freedom Tower.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, and the Florida Cabinet voted to transfer a 2.63-acre parcel on Biscayne Boulevard to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation, on the condition that construction begin within five years — roughly a year after the president completes his second term.

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Trump has long maintained a presence in nearby Palm Beach and made history in Miami-Dade County during the 2024 presidential election, winning by 13 points — the first Republican to do so since 1988.

“It’s great to have his stamp in downtown Miami. It’s great to have something of the White House here in South Florida,” Dezer — the developer behind the Porsche Design Tower, Bentley Residences, Trump Towers, Trump Royale and Trump Grande — said. “It’s going to bring jobs to the area, construction, obviously, and it’s gonna make a beautiful building, whereas right now … it’s just parking lots right there.”

The Miami site is currently used as an employee parking lot for Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus and sits next to the historic Freedom Tower, which served as a resource center for Cuban refugees who fled communism in the 1960s and 1970s. The century-old building is widely seen as a symbol of the city’s vibrant immigrant heritage.

The parcel was appraised at more than $66 million, according to local reports, but could sell for upward of $360 million, The New York Times reported, citing a real estate consultant.

Dezer suggested the library’s design should blend Trump’s signature style with Miami’s terracotta influence to complement the Freedom Tower.

“I don’t think you want a stark difference with a new modern building there,” he noted, “but something that will be timeless and elegant, the way [Trump] does all his stuff … I think incorporating things about the history of the city are important.”

“I think a real library … the ones we used to remember, where you can actually take a book in and take the book out with a library card, a place to read, a quiet area, I think that’s what’s absolutely needed in the downtown area,” he added. “We had classes growing up about the Dewey Decimal System that my kids never bothered to learn today, because everything’s online. So going back to, ‘What is a library?’ and having real important books there that kids should be reading is something absolutely important for Miami.”

Dezer said he doesn’t expect major planning or market hurdles when it comes time to break ground, though he acknowledged there could be political opposition.

“It’s always the political challenges. You always have those naysayers who don’t want it,” he said. “What he has shown to us is, he’s a master fundraiser. He raised funds to build a ballroom next to the White House, which hasn’t been done in a hundred-plus years. And so he’s shown that if anybody’s gonna get this done, he’s the guy to pull it off.”

“He’s gonna push it and make sure it’s on time and on schedule, and going to be amazing,” Dezer continued. “For most presidents, these things are a legacy. They want it to be remembered for the next 200 years. . . . He’s placing a stamp right [at the] dead center of Miami, which is going to be seen by all for many, many years to come.”

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The Trump Presidential Library Foundation did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the project’s design or timeline.

Under the Presidential Libraries Act, such libraries are typically funded by private donations and later transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for long-term maintenance. Trump’s foundation has not yet released formal architectural renderings or budget details.

“We have become a world-class city in the last 10 years, 15 years, and this is just the additional cherry on the cake, if you will. Like I said, he could have chosen anywhere to go and he could’ve put it anywhere, but Miami is mature enough and ready enough for this kind of project,” Dezer reflected. “So we should be very proud that Trump chose us, and it’s gonna be here forever.”

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Former VP reveals White House blunder that ‘hit Elon hard’ before he backed Trump

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said her onetime boss, former President Joe Biden, made a “big mistake” by not inviting Tesla CEO Elon Musk to a 2021 White House event on electric vehicles. 

In August 2021, Biden hosted an EV event at the White House with executives from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, but Musk was not invited, despite Tesla being the nation’s leading EV manufacturer. 

“I write in the book that I thought it was a big mistake to not invite Elon Musk when we did a big EV event,” Harris told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell on Tuesday at the news outlet’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., referring to her memoir, “107 Days,” in which she criticized Biden for initially running for re-election despite his health struggles.

“I mean, here he is, the major American manufacturer of extraordinary innovation in this space,” Harris said of Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX.

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Musk’s snub was widely viewed as an effort to support the United Auto Workers and organized labor overall, since Tesla plants are not unionized. Harris wrote in her book that she believed Biden was “sending a message about Musk’s anti-union stance” but that she thought excluding him as the top player in the field “simply doesn’t make sense.”

Then–White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the event featured “the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers,” emphasizing that Tesla’s workers are not unionized.

Pressed on whether Musk’s snub was punishment for his workers not being unionized, Psaki told reporters: “I’ll let you draw your own conclusion.”

The Biden administration defended inviting only those automakers, calling them key partners in the president’s push for union jobs.

Harris said that presidents should “put aside political loyalties” when it comes to recognizing technological innovation.

“So, I thought that was a mistake, and I don’t know Elon Musk, but I have to assume that that was something that hit him hard and had an impact on his perspective,” she said.

Musk did appear to take offense after he was not invited to the event, taking numerous jabs at Biden.

“Yeah, seems odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,” Musk wrote at the time on social media.

A month later, he said the Biden administration appeared to be “controlled by unions” and was “not the friendliest administration.”

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After Musk learned Tesla would not be invited, administration officials offered an apology, according to The Wall Street Journal. Biden aides later attempted to soothe things over, but tensions remained.

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Harris’ comments on Tuesday mirrored a passage from her new book in which she wrote that the Biden administration’s move not to include Tesla was a mistake and that it appeared to alienate Musk, who later became one of current President Donald Trump’s top financial backers.

“Musk never forgave it,” she wrote.

Musk later endorsed Trump in the 2024 election and contributed roughly $300 million toward Republican campaign efforts. 

‘Open-minded’ Bible aims to reach progressive Christian families turned off by tradition

A crop of new children’s storybook Bibles aims to reach progressive Christians who are turned off by traditional presentations of Scripture, offering messages focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.

Publishers say the projects are meant to reflect the faith values of a changing audience — and to fill what they describe as a gap in faith resources for progressive believers.

“The Just Love Story Bible,” a “justice-oriented” storybook for readers ages four to 10, was released last month. The book, authored by Rev. Jacqui Lewis and the Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, features 52 Bible stories and illustrations portraying characters in Black, Brown and tan skin tones.

“Our agenda is to teach young people a theology of love and justice that we don’t have to unlearn,” Lewis said in an interview with Religion News Service.

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“The biblical characters mostly look Black and Brown and caramel … now White children, I imagine, looking in this Bible and seeing brown people and thinking to themselves, ‘Oh, brown people belong to God, too,’” she added.

The authors said they also hope to prompt children to ask questions and challenge traditional beliefs about God, Jesus and the biblical narrative.

“Did that happen?” Lewis said, describing how the storybook presents Jesus’ resurrection. “For me, it matters more that children know that love never dies, so that’s where I landed.”

“It’s OK to actually tell kids from the get-go: Some of these stories are about true people and things that really happened, and some of them are made-up stories, but they’re in there because they can still teach us true things about God,” Daley-Harris said, referencing the story of Jonah.

The authors acknowledged that readers who interpret the Bible literally may not be the right audience for their book.

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“There will be a group of sort of literalist or fundamentalist folks for whom this isn’t a welcome resource,” Daley-Harris said. “But it’s been really interesting to see the reception from not just folks who are raised progressive, but those who are raised in a tradition that no longer fit them, who did grow out of a theology and are looking for one that they can grow into and grow with alongside their children.”

Lewis said the book also highlights women in Jesus’ ministry and portrays him as a “feminist.”

“When Shannon and I say we don’t want children to learn something they have to unlearn, we don’t want them to learn patriarchy from this story Bible,” she told RNS.

The book’s publisher, Beaming Books, says it hopes to reach progressive Christians seeking an “open-minded Bible.”

“We noticed a gap in the marketplace for people who are looking for a more open-minded Bible for progressive Christians, one that is focused on love and justice,” said Naomi Krueger, senior acquisitions’ editor for Beaming Books, in an interview with Publishers Weekly.

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“Its countercultural message is really appropriate for this time,” Krueger added, saying the book is intended to be “an antidote to Christian white supremacy.”

“The Just Love Story Bible” is one of several new titles pushing for broader representation in children’s Christian publishing.

Hodder Faith, a U.K.-based Christian imprint, released “Come and See: An Invitation to a Radical Encounter with Jesus,” last month. The devotional book, aimed at readers 11 and up, was written by Shannon T.L. Kearns, described as the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, according to the author’s biography.

“If you want to take children into the Bible and still be respected as an LGBTQ person, there are not a lot of resources for you,” Hodder Faith publishing director Andy Lyon told Publishers Weekly. “It’s called ‘Come and See,’ because it’s about being seen and knowing you belong. You see Jesus and then Jesus sees you.”

Another devotional, “Growing in God’s Love: A Family Devotional,” is out from Westminster John Knox Press. The book offers daily readings that bring “substantive, progressive lessons in faith for all generations,” and is aimed at adults and children ages five to 17.

Author Jessica Miller Kelley, an editor at Westminster John Knox, said she intentionally avoided using gendered language such as “mother” or “father” in the devotionals, except when directly quoting Scripture, to make the stories more inclusive of gender diversity and different kinds of families, she told Publishers Weekly.

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The book’s early readers praised its emphasis on justice, inclusivity and diversity.

Krueger said in the report that progressive Christians are looking for more resources that affirm their values – and expects the number of such projects to grow.