• About
  • Submissions
  • Store
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Twitter

Story Warren

Kindling Imagination for Kingdom Anticipation

  • Fostering Imagination
    • Valuing Imagination
    • Parenting
    • Faith & Vision
  • Resources
    • Books
    • Music
    • Movies
    • Interviews
    • Lists
  • Warren & the World
  • For Kids
    • Poems
    • Stories
    • Songs

Forever You Instructs and Delights

February 15, 2013 by Loren Eaton 7 Comments

A couple years ago, I read an op-ed in the paper where the author bemoaned how toy manufacturers always marketed their products as “educational.” Nowadays, it seems as if every dolly and digger needs some sort of salubrious rationale before a kid can play with it. What’s the problem with simply having fun? the author […]

Filed Under: Books, Discovering Resources

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes: Book Review

January 30, 2013 by Carolyn Clare Givens 6 Comments

Editor’s Note: We are very pleased to welcome our very first ever Guest Poster here at Story Warren. Carrie Givens is a fine writer from Pennsylvania who we met at Hutchmoot in Nashville last year. I’m grateful she said “yes” when I asked if we could post her book review to SW. If anyone would […]

Filed Under: Books, Discovering Resources

The Stories We Shared

December 21, 2012 by Sarah Clarkson 7 Comments

A couple of days after Thanksgiving, just minutes before I left to take the visiting half of my family back to the airport, my brother Nate pulled me aside. “Can I borrow Peace Like A River?” he begged. He needn’t have begged, because he knew I would instantly grin and agree. The mention of that […]

Filed Under: Books, Fostering Imagination

Behold the Lamb of God

December 17, 2012 by James D. Witmer 5 Comments

Trickle-down imagination, SD Smith calls it: “We want to share [things] that will inspire, encourage, and foster holy imagination in you. Children become engaged when we are engaged.” (Why Story Warren) That’s what Russ Ramsey’s Behold the Lamb of God has done for my family this year. An advent narrative with twenty-five readings, Ramsey’s book […]

Filed Under: Books, Discovering Resources Tagged With: Russ Ramsey

Newly Minted Familiarity

December 14, 2012 by Zach Franzen 6 Comments

Fantasy is a two-edged sword. It can amplify our disenchantment with the world, or refresh our appreciation of it.  William Jay Smith does a great job communicating the romance of domesticity and refreshing our appreciation of life in his poem, “The Toaster.”  He uses the unfamiliar (dragon) to refresh our wonder at the familiar (toaster).  Tolkien […]

Filed Under: Books, Discovering Resources

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • Next Page »

Get Story Warren in Your Inbox

Join us on Facebook

Story Warren
  • Latest Posts
  • Store

Copyright © 2012 - 2021 Story Warren, LLC · Site by Design by Insight

Copyright © 2021 · Story Warren on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in