| Welcome to The
Sunday Paper! We are a family business
and we still go by the principles set forth in the first ad flyer we sent out, way back in 1980: “The Sunday
Paper is informal, whimsical, faithful to Scripture, and in dead earnest. It is not condescending or cute. It
helps children to acquire a vocabulary of crucial Scriptural images, and to relate the Gospel to the Old Testament, the
life of the Church, and their own lives.” The Sunday Paper (age 9 and up) and The Sunday Paper Junior (ages 3 to 10), our lectionary cartoons, are distributed electronically, as
.pdf files sent to you by email. As of Advent, 2025, The Sunday Paper and The
Sunday Paper Junior are no
longer being distributed as “subscriptions.” Instead, customers purchase an
entire lectionary year as a single order. You may place an order at any time,
but it will always need to be for a full lectionary year – A, B, or C
– and the full year’s materials, from Advent 1 through Proper 29, will be sent to you all at once. This greatly simplified system enables us to slash prices dramatically from their previous levels.
Full-sized samples may be downloaded from the “Subscriptions” page of this web site. At the “Order Form” tab is a form
that you may paste into an email and fill out, or may print out and mail or scan it. We do not have full-fledged online
ordering, but these methods do work! We offer a great deal more
than lectionary cartoons. Our books on
the sacraments for children, Alleluia! Amen (Eucharist) and New Life
(Baptism) have been best-sellers for many years,
and our resources for seasonal celebrations also have many fans: Risen With Christ for Holy Week and Easter, and our collection of Christmas pageant scripts, Go, Tell It on the Mountain, which is out in a revised and expanded edition, with four scripts instead
of three. Our brightly colored interactive feltboard system, Beulah Land, puts The Sunday Paper’s visual
vocabulary in your hands—and your kids’ hands—for storytelling and play, and as an inspiration for children’s
artwork. Beulah Land also has a complete
39-week curriculum, centered on worship, song,
story and art response, and widely adaptable for many different settings. Our proprietary Wooden Playsets bring the same designs into a three-dimensional format. These include a
simple church Playset, a Good Shepherd set our popular
set of Jesus, Disciples, and Women, the coordinating Boat and Table, and a collection of 13 New Testament People: four women, four men,
a youth, three children, and a baby. Still in development are a projected House and a Sickbed. These open up many opportunities
for imaginative play with the Gospel story.
Also check out God’s Garden, God’s City, a Vacation Bible School curriculum written by my daughter, the Rev. Grace Pritchard Burson, and revised and expanded
by me on the basis of two years’ experience presenting it at Grace & St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (now Grace
and St. John’s) in Hamden, Connecticut.
Our resources open doors not only to “Christian education” but also to liturgy and play. Sacrament
and celebration, pageants and prayer, are as much a part of Christian education as Bible study. Liturgy in which
children are full participants is the oldest Christian curriculum and still the best. In a culture saturated with
stimulation and “fun,” we offer simple, time-tested materials that invite children to wonder, to imagine, to
pretend, and to make the stories and rituals of our faith a part of their inmost selves. Take
some time to browse this website - information
about our products can be found by clicking on the toolbar on the left, as can a ready-to-print order form. With
few exceptions, our prices have held steady. We
now accept PayPal from customers unable to pay by check in US dollars. We can take your order by mail, telephone or email - our email is sundaypaper@snet.net, and our telephone number is
203-624-2520. When you place your order by telephone
or email, please include your name, your full mailing address, and a telephone number or email address where we can reach
you if we have questions about your order. LIKE us on Facebook to stay in touch! Peace, Gretchen
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