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Make Believe Makes Believers

October 15, 2012 by S. D. Smith 7 Comments

My son plays happily. He flits easily between two worlds, the world that is and the world he imagines. His conversation assumes the extraordinary. His play is an adventure in make believe. How like faith. Perhaps nothing is more like faith than play. This “admission” would no doubt make Christians raised in an era of […]

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C.S. Lewis on “Grown-Up” vs. Children’s Stories

August 15, 2012 by S. D. Smith Leave a Comment

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And […]

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Imagination Gets You

August 8, 2012 by S. D. Smith 1 Comment

I share the following quotation because it gets at, in a somewhat indirect way, why we believe fostering imagination in children is so central to the life of faith. -Sam “The Church needs artists because without art we cannot reach the world. The simple fact is that the imagination ‘gets you,’ even when your reason […]

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Let There Be Play –Jennifer Trafton on “Holy Silliness”

July 31, 2012 by S. D. Smith Leave a Comment

Jennifer Trafton has a happy habit of hitting the nail on the head. Below, I share a poignant portion of an astonishingly good read on Children’s Stories, Imagination, and Joy at the Center of Creation. I would urge parents to read it and then march forth and post-haste feed your children’s souls on stories and […]

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Love Like Birch Trees

June 14, 2012 by James D. Witmer 4 Comments

My wife loves plants. I love beautiful places that encourage a restful heart. The result is that I have learned to love gardening and the general niftyness of the plant world. Caring for plants can also open our eyes to larger truths. For example: After thinking over the relationships I’ve been blessed with, I’ve concluded […]

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