Today at lunch, my seven-year-old summed it up neatly. “Is the virus going to last forever?” she asked. I took a few meditative bites of leftover tandoori before I answered. “No,” I said. “It … Read More ...
Fostering Imagination
The Miracle of Imagination
One morning when my granddaughter Easton was three years old, she and her mom and I were driving to get donuts when she said, “A lion!” My daughter and I glanced back at Easton in her car seat, then followed her gaze and chubby finger pointing up to white clouds in the blue sky outside […]
Resources
The Sunlit Lands Series by Matt Mikalatos
The Sunlit Lands Series by Matt Mikalatos is my top pick for kids who have grown up reading The Chronicles of Narnia, The Wingfeather Saga, and The Green Ember Series and are now ready to dive into young adult. These books contain the same kind of deeply true and meaningful stories as the above mentioned […]
Warren & the World
The Warren & The World Vol 9, Issue 35
From a look at the holiness of God to a meditation on living life a little larger, we’ve got a lot of great stuff this week. And that doesn’t even get you to the Story Warren site, where our contributors are recommending books and encouraging you as you foster holy imagination in the kids in […]
For Kids
The Ice Cream Truck at Midnight
We hear the owl call around midnight. That’s how we know it’s here. I remember well the first night it arrived. I was up late with a spinning mind that wouldn’t let me sleep. That particular summer day had been a rough one for my family. I lay in bed, looking at the shadows on […]