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The Warren & the World Vol 3, Issue 44

November 7, 2015 by Carolyn Clare Givens Leave a Comment

The Warren & the World is Story Warren’s weekly newsletter, providing a round-up of our favorite things from around the web as well as a review of what was on our site over the past week. We’re glad you’re here!

Around the Web

How Do You Walk Into Church?

Tim Challies recommends a book by Tony Payne about how our experience in church has to do with how we walk in the door.
  • I do it three times every week: Every Sunday morning, every Sunday evening, and every Wednesday evening I walk into church. Sometimes I walk into church eager and full of expectation; sometimes I walk into church grudgingly and grumpy; sometimes I walk into church sick or sorrowful. But week after week I do it. And I attach very little significance to it.

Read more.

Why I Show Children Hospitality (Even Though I’m Not a Parent)

Abigail Murrish gives another perspective on hospitality at Grace Table. .
  • How did I, a woman without children of my own, end up hosting a tea party for six year olds? When I followed my husband to a new city a year earlier, making friends was challenging as a young, work-at-home woman with no children. Fortunately, my life was made richer through young moms in my church inviting me into their homes for coffee with them while their children napped. And, unsurprisingly, my coffee dates with the moms often included children too. And I realized I had a choice. I could see these children as a hindrance to my adult relationships or as an opportunity to show hospitality.

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For the Love of your Soul

A bunch of my friends are participating in November’s Poem a Day challenge and some great stuff is being written. Meagan Smith’s “For the Love of Your Soul” stood out to me.

  • For the love of your soul,
    God sent you His Son
    For the love of your soul
    A great journey, begun 

Read more.

Gifts for Young Writers

Melissa Taylor has some good suggestions of gifts for your budding young writer over at Imagination Soup.
  • It’s always a challenge to get kids to write at home, isn’t it? Special writing materials and inspiration help. Peruse through this list of gifts for young writers to see if our kids would like any of these ideas — maybe you’ll get your kids to write more than you even imagined!

Read more.

Around the Warren

Battling at the In-Between

Guest Jake Nuckolls considers life in the in-between, the liminal space.

  • Let’s face it. Things are not as easy as we want them to be. I want to take my kids to the baseball game, but I have to make sure they have sunscreen on, water bottles prepped, a blanket, a chair, enough snacks or enough money to pay for snacks, and so on. It’s not like the “glory days” of college when I could simply wander down to the ballpark in the middle of the day just to catch the third inning on. Oh, and I didn’t care about sunscreen, because I didn’t have to.

Read more.

“…they are crying out everyday.”

A Josh Bishop/Paul Boekell match-up. Good stuff on both sides.

Experimental and Edifying, This “Dawn” is Brilliant

Loren Eaton reviews Andrew Peterson’s The Burning Edge of Dawn.

  • You’ve got to hand it to Andrew Peterson: The man isn’t afraid to take a risk.I first saw Peterson perform at Wheaton College’s Edman Chapel, a venue we fondly termed The Big Blue Cave. Few musicians seemed to be able to handle its cavernous acoustics, but I remember how Peterson filled the venue with warm, harmonious, pop-folk arrangements. It’s a signature sound I’d personally track from his freshman album Carried Away all the way to 2012’s Light for the Lost Boy.

    And it’s a sound that has almost disappeared from his most recent effort, The Burning Edge of Dawn.

Read more.

Dandelion Wondered

Guests Danielle Chalker and Chinwe Edeani partner up to bring us a new story, illustrated with photographs..

Read more.

Something to Do with Your Kids

Have you ever been in a thrift store and seen how many knife blocks there are for sale? Here’s a fun project for using one make an art supply caddy.

And Something to Watch

This artist mom takes her 2-year-old daughter’s drawings and turns them into watercolor paintings. And that’s cool.

Thank you for reading. We’re on your side.

 

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Carolyn Clare Givens
Carolyn Clare Givens
Carolyn Clare Givens is displaced Northerner exploring the foreign ways of the South. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her two literary cats, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. She's the author of The King's Messenger and Rosefire and in her free time helps run Bandersnatch Books.

You can find her at carolyncgivens.com or on Facebook or Instagram at @carolyncgivens.
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