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 […]

God made the world and there is such a thing as cake frosting. One of the things we will hear a lot in this season is lamentation over consumerism, materialism, and other isms that involve buying things we don’t need. There’s something to be said for that (and people are always saying it, so I […]

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 […]

Two weeks ago I went grocery shopping with fifteen stickers on my face. The night before, news had come. It was news about someone I love – the kind of news that etches a mark on your timeline, dividing life before from life after. I was devastated. I woke up the next morning full of […]

Two years ago, on a blustery October day just like the one out my window, I took a walk with six children down a country road near Boston. When it was over, I felt that I had sojourned in a different world and I almost hated to come back to my own. It wasn’t the […]