So, maybe you need a laugh. This (video below) will certainly provide it. But, I also thought it was a good occasion to ask what our readers’ favorite mercy ministry/charity serving kids are. So, I’m asking. It can be something you support, or are involved with, or just an organization you admire. Feel free to…
This was one of my Papaw’s favorite poems. I have fond memories of him reciting this on his back porch, tearing up and recalling his own little children and their sneak attacks. It’s also a vision close to my heart. For the deep joy of a loving connection to my own kids is one of…
Note: I wrote this over a year ago (though it hasn’t been previously published). That’s why the ages are all wrong and I’m even balder now. Why haven’t I published it till now? Well, it’s more intimate and self-revelatory than I’m usually very comfortable with. (I am, as that one man once said, a man.)…
Take a peek at our event coming up on March 23 in southern West Virginia for kids aged 7–12 (featuring our own, illustrious Zach Franzen–creator of the image above). It’s called: Illustrate Your Imagination: A Workshop For Kids Who Love to Draw. Check it out. And now, a movie. This short film won an Oscar…
“Wonder is involuntary praise.” Edward Young said that and I’m glad he did. What are we doing to facilitate wonder in our families? C.S. Lewis said we need an enchantment to set us free from the bondage of worldliness. How are we working for our children’s liberty? If it is only in books and art and…
Have a wonderful Christmas! We’re taking the holiday off here at Story Warren and will be back after all 12 days are done. For this last day of Advent, a thought from our friend, Thomas McKenzie… “The story we tell every Advent, like the story we tell every Sunday, is an old one. It is…
Need to laugh? Me too. The kids write the script and do the voices. The adults act them out. Your job: laugh. This one is a baby fighting. HT: Kevin DeYoung
A few weeks back I shared why I love and appreciate the writings of my friend (yes, my friend –I’m rubbing it in) Sally Lloyd-Jones. It was sort of anticipatory to receiving Thought to Make Your Heart Sing. I had seen the book briefly, but we didn’t have it yet. Now we do. And wow….
Note: I have published this elsewhere before, but thought it was appropriate for Thanksgiving. I hope it is is encouraging. –Sam —————————————– My son scampered around the graveyard, having to be reminded not to be too rambunctious. I asked him to stop playing on the gravestone pictured and got his happy, “Sure, Daddy.” I commented…
This is a small section from an interview J.B. Cheany (World Magazine, etc.) conducted with Alan Jacobs (The Narnian, etc.) over at what certainly appears to be a delightful website called Redeemed Reader. (See full interview here.) I thought these answers very insightful. “Insight,” by the way, is one of the words my kids brought…
There are echoes of Eden in our pain, a longing to slide past the angel’s burning sword and, though singed, reenter Paradise. The Bible and all human experience is haunted with our loss. Shortly after the Fall in Genesis 3 we read a refrain that’s as hateful as it is perpetual. “And he died…and he…
Part of the heart behind Story Warren is serving parents (and others who care for young humans) as allies by connecting them to artists who are truly, well, allies. This week Andrew Peterson releases Light for the Lost Boy, a record so well-suited for the regular readers here (the latest in a long line of…
