Story Warren Weekend, Vol. 14, Issue 15

Hello and happy weekend!

This weekend some of the Story Warren team are together for the HopeWords conference in Bluefield, West Virginia. We’ve been meeting fans new and old, reconnecting with good friends, and putting the brand new book in lots of hands! We are always delighted to have a new book to share, but getting to share it with so many of you in person is even more fun! Do you have your copy yet?

Around the Web

The Heidelberg Catechism’s Lesson for Foster Parents. Kyle Worley shares comfort from the catechism for foster parents—and all parents. “This reality, at first blush, can appear harsh and calloused, but it is a path towards freedom. Surrendering the illusion of self-ownership and autonomy requires us to believe big things about God and counterintuitive things about self.”

‘Project Hail Mary’ Offers the Good, Clean, Fun Moviegoers Have Missed. Brett McCracken reviews this old-school blockbuster. “Perhaps the most metamodern, vibe-shifty quality to Hail Mary is how redemptive it is on a spiritual level. The film draws from Christian virtues and ideas like sacrifice, selfless love, and—you guessed it—grace.”

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Around the Warren

On Monday, in celebration of the new book, we resurrected an old post from our founder, S. D. Smith. He told us what he loves about C. S. Lewis’s Wonderful Letters to Children. “He shows tremendous compassion for a child suffering through intense spiritual confusion. He is gentle and empathetic. (The child is deeply troubled about loving Aslan more than Jesus.)”

We heard from Lara d’Entremont on Wednesday when she suggested A Better Motto Than Live, Laugh, Love. “G. K. Chesterton says that this kind of wonder requires humility. Pride, being high and lifted up, looks at everything from above, as if from a plane or air balloon or space ship (or like the kid who now knows the Easter Bunny also isn’t real). Being so high up is a magnificent way to view the world—but Chesterton reminds us that you’re not really seeing anything once you’re so far away from it; it’s all dots and fragments.”

Something to do with your kids

As it’s warming up, outdoor projects are back in the mix again! Here’s how to make a sundial clock.

Something to watch

In case you missed it, here’s our livestream from Tuesday night! Get your copy of the newest Green Ember adventure here.

Thanks for reading. We’re on your side.

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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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