Introducing The Ally in Imagination Award

Do you remember who it was who first introduced you or your kids to The Green Ember? Was it a teacher? A librarian? A conference speaker?

Is there a bookstore or library where you can go as a family and explore new adventures together? Who is in your community who makes the world more delightful and beautiful for children? Do you know of an author or illustrator who is striving to uplift kids with stories of courage or grace?

We want to recognize that person, but we need you to tell us about them!

Today we’re launching a new initiative: the Story Warren Ally in Imagination Award. We’ve set up a page for you to nominate someone in your life who embodies our Story Warren mission. Once a quarter, we’ll choose a favorite and recognize them here on our site (with their permission, of course).

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

To help you, we wanted to remind you of what we’re about:

Story Warren was founded back in ye olden days of 2012, when a lot of us had young children, and we wanted to raise ‘em right. Church life? Check. Catechisms? Check. Discipline and routines? Check and check.

But beyond that, we wanted them to understand the Greater Story. We wanted to inspire them with hope and character that was linked to something bigger. With the help of giants in the Greater Story like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, we set out to help one another—and now you!—with kindling our children’s imaginations for God’s glory.

We can see in the Bible that God has given us both (a) propositional truth and (b) a story. He has told us about himself, and then he showed us the same thing. Would we feel that God is powerful if we didn’t have “And Moses stretched his hand out over the water, and the seas receded and stood up like walls on their right and their left?” That’s powerful! We know in our minds, and we understand it with our hearts.

While they are not the story of the Bible, other faithful stories can also be our advocates in this way. They can be our kind companions, filling our hearts with meaning. The meaning bolsters the truth we know in our heads, helping us to bear up under circumstances and apply what we already know. Faithful stories give us friends for the road ahead and warm communities to rally around us. We need faithful stories, not as an opponent of truth, but as a partner.

Is there someone in your life who embodies this spirit? Tell us about them!

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Kelly Keller

Kelly Keller is the managing editor of Story Warren. She has her BS in Elementary Education from Messiah University and has taught various ages, but her favorite was worldview and literature with high school students. The “gap” in her resume is actually a window of eighteen years of homeschooling, which she recommends as an effective, though demanding, way of expanding one’s home library.

When she’s not behind her laptop, Kelly enjoys live music, baseball, reading great books, and traveling with her husband, David. Kelly hails from beautiful snowy New England, but after nearly two decades in North Carolina, she feels right at home.

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