The Berenstain Bears, once known for promoting family values sans religion, have broken their self imposed moratorium on declaring whether they are people of faith or no faith. Actually, it’s more complicated than that. Their sans religion titles will continue to be published by Random House. Their overtly Christian titles are being published by Zondervan. Just why Random House is not also publishing the Christian titles isn’t explained, but it could be the Berenstains (the humans who author and illustrate the books) want to avoid sending mixed messages to their secular audience.
One wonders if the evangelicals are aware that the author of the Berenstain Bears series, Jan Berenstain, is a faithful Episcopalian.
See:
USA Today – Berenstain Bears find God: Tea Party next?
New Yorker – The Berenstain Bears get an App and find God
Related:
Vatican – Homer Simpson ‘is a true Catholic’