It’s been a week, folks. There’s a difference between knowing something and experiencing something, and I feel like this week was the move from knowledge to experience. We’ve all been learning crazy new family rhythms and many of us have faced disappointment as something we were looking forward to has been canceled or changed. We’re finding […]
A Time To Embrace…Artists: Pandemic Patrons, Assemble
It’s extremely noisy out there, I know. I feel it. It seems like, on top of the news and toilet paper memes, everyone is launching online solutions and online classes and online everything. It’s often generous and sacrificial. Some of it is because artists and others are scared and don’t know what to do. On […]
Stardust
Glancing over featured books in a children’s library, a gleaming cover caught my eye. From beneath the dust jacket, a young girl gazes at a silver, iridescent title — Stardust. The back of the book declares, “We are all made of stardust, so shine in your own way.” Stardust, by Jeanne Willis and Briony May […]
The Warren & the World Vol 8, Issue 10
I’ve watched on Facebook and read emails from my friends living in Asia over the past five or six weeks and their stories of changing schedules, ministries, schooling, etc., have felt far away. But this week, as school after school and church after church announced moves to online gathering and as the toilet paper disappeared […]
Edward Tulane and the Soft, Sharp Heart of Love
At first blush, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane seems an odd choice of book to encourage holy imagination in a child. Newberry-winning author Kate DiCamillo’s tale of a china rabbit who becomes separated from his owner (one Abilene Tulane of Egypt Street) and undergoes numerous misadventures has a distinctly downbeat tone. The trouble, if […]