On Religion: Passing on a faith that's bigger than cartoons
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t’s easy to capture a kid’s attention with cartoons about Noah and the Ark, Joshua’s laps around the walls of Jericho and other colorful stories from scripture.Phil Vischer ought to know. For millions of Americans under the age of 25, he is best known as Bob the Tomato and the brain behind the original VeggieTales videos. But over time, he realized that he faced a bigger challenge as a storyteller, one symbolized by the sign on his 1990s office wall that proclaimed: “We will not portray Jesus as a vegetable.”