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Anticipating The Right-Side-Up World Through Imagination

July 16, 2018 by S. D. Smith 17 Comments

An old man kneels by a fire, telling imaginative tales to eager children. They hang on his every word, transported from their world to another. Their world is beautiful, but broken. He speaks words into their hearts, words that string together to form new worlds, anticipating the one which will surely come. These are the […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination Tagged With: Imagination, Kingdom, Story

Anticipating The Right-Side-Up World Through Imagination

July 10, 2017 by S. D. Smith 14 Comments

An old man kneels by a fire, telling imaginative tales to eager children. They hang on his every word, transported from their world to another. Their world is beautiful, but broken. He speaks into their hearts words that string together to form new worlds, anticipating the one which will surely come. These are the seeds […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination Tagged With: Imagination, Kingdom, Story

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 […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination Tagged With: Jennifer Trafton, Play, Story

N.D. Wilson: “Stories Are Like Catechisms for Your Impulses”

June 11, 2012 by S. D. Smith 2 Comments

From a brief Q/A by Marvin Olasky (World Magazine) with author N.D. Wilson. Olasky: You’ve said you learned more philosophy, maybe even theology, from C.S. Lewis and Tolkien than from anything you studied in college. Is that one reason you write fiction rather than theological tomes? Wilson: Christians have sometimes been suspicious of stories, because […]

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Stories as Mirrors

May 22, 2012 by Randall Goodgame 1 Comment

For years I’ve been making up stories for my kids at bedtime. It started with the two older kids when they were four and six and sharing a room, and at first all the stories were unrelated. Maybe a butterfly king was searching for his lost butterfly crown, or maybe two clouds were racing to […]

Filed Under: Fostering Imagination, Valuing Imagination Tagged With: Andrew Peterson, Bed Time, Jennifer Trafton, Story

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