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Imaginations Should Be Exercised

April 2, 2018 by James D. Witmer 14 Comments

What is imagination good for? And why do we need imaginative stories? The real world is full of beauty. Normal lives are full of drama. And beneath it all is Truth; bright, hard, sharp as the point of a spear. So why make stuff up? Why read (or play at) things that aren’t real? Because […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination Tagged With: C.S. Lewis

The Gift of Grief

September 18, 2017 by James D. Witmer 9 Comments

It is the business of a sinful world to turn our eyes away from Jesus – to the more pressing, familiar-seeming things around us: “a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past” (Lewis, The Screwtape Letters). Our work, entertainment, and hobbies act as anesthetics. And like anesthetics, they block pain […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting Tagged With: C.S. Lewis

Imaginations Should Be Exercised

February 20, 2017 by James D. Witmer 20 Comments

What is imagination good for? And why do we need imaginative stories? The real world is full of beauty. Normal lives are full of drama. And beneath it all is Truth; bright, hard, sharp as the point of a spear. So why make stuff up? Why read (or play at) things that aren’t real? Because […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Uncategorized, Valuing Imagination Tagged With: C.S. Lewis

The Gift of Grief

July 9, 2012 by James D. Witmer 7 Comments

It is the business of a sinful world to turn our eyes away from Jesus – to the more pressing, familiar-seeming things around us: “a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past” (Lewis, The Screwtape Letters). Our work, entertainment, and hobbies act as anesthetics. And like anesthetics, they block pain […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Parenting Tagged With: C.S. Lewis

Why Story Warren?

June 18, 2012 by S. D. Smith 57 Comments

Don’t you hate it when people go straight to a section from The Lord of the Rings to explain something important in their lives? It reminds me of the part where the army of Gondor is overrun, hopeless, on the edge of defeat. Their allies in Rohan have not come to help, even though the […]

Filed Under: Faith & Vision, Fostering Imagination Tagged With: C.S. Lewis, Imagination, Parenting, Story Warren, Tolkien

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