We are partisans for the power of stories. We see them as meaning-making machines, and the imagination broadly as the place we form who we are and what we love. 

Because imagination is not neutral, and will serve any master, we believe it is a crucial capacity to value and to place happily under the lordship of King Jesus. 

Story Warren was founded back in ye olden days of 2012, when a lot of us had young children, and we wanted to raise ‘em right. Church life? Check. Catechisms? Check. Discipline and routines? Check and check.

But beyond that, we wanted them to understand the Greater Story. We wanted to inspire them with hope and character that was linked to something bigger. With the help of giants in the Greater Story like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, we set out to help one another—and now you!—with kindling our children’s imaginations for God’s glory.

We can see in the Bible that God has given us both (a) propositional truth and (b) a story. He has told us about himself, and then he showed us the same thing. Would we feel that God is powerful if we didn’t have “And Moses stretched his hand out over the water, and the seas receded and stood up like walls on their right and their left?” That’s powerful! We know in our minds, and we understand it with our hearts.

While they are not the story of the Bible, other faithful stories can also be our advocates in this way. They can be our kind companions, filling our hearts with meaning. The meaning bolsters the truth we know in our heads, helping us to bear up under circumstances and apply what we already know. Faithful stories give us friends for the road ahead and warm communities to rally around us. We need faithful stories, not as an opponent of truth, but as a partner.

You’ll find that we’re inclined towards construction, rather than destruction. We get that sometimes they go together. But it’s important to us that this place is a home for doing, rather than not doing.  There are a million places on the internet to fight about stuff. (We know; we counted.) We don’t want to be another place where angry, anonymous people can prove they’re right on the internet. We want to hand you a trowel or a shovel; we want to help you push the wheelbarrow.

Let’s build something beautiful together. 

We’re on your side.