Christian Educators' Journal

Items tagged imagination

• Life's like an onion

  As an animated film, Shrek defies the norms set by sweet and predictable Disney films.

• Calvin's experiment

  What happens when a science project doesn?t go exactly as planned?

• The Scandal of Harry Potter

  A discerning look at the controversial series reveals common misconceptions about fantasy.

• Is your church fantasy-friendly?

  On the need to cultivate the fantasy-lives of believers in Spirit-filled churches.

• Needing home

  Will a place to lay my head ever materialize?

• On mystery, curiosity and the Mediterranean sunbather

  A conversation between husband and wife about a curious European phenomenon.

• Slaying the monsters

  How do we process what comes from the generation before to benefit the next generation?

• Template <i>(Store for Future Use)</i>

  A letter for an as-yet unformed person, a letter imagined, and a letter that may never be sent.

• A good restaurant

  Memories and dreams inform criteria for what makes a restaurant good.

• Friction makes fire

  On the energy that results from tension within the self and within communities.

• Imaginative fancy and innocuous fantasy

  A reflection on the energizing power, for better or worse, of imagination.

• Stimulating imagination

  On finding the energy to change the world through environmental practices.

• Outdoor heart

  Deconstructing garden admiration reveals a longing for self expression.

• Storytelling

  Thoughts from a writing teacher and father-to-be.

• A story before bed

  Reflection on a nighttime ritual that fills various kinds of needs.

• Anarchism and hope

  An exploration of the definition of anarchism and what Kingdom truth it can speak into contemporary culture.

• Give me liberty or give me death

  A review of Garth Jennings’ film Son of Rambow.

• Conversation: “When I Grow Up”

  Contribute your stories comparing your childhood ideals with the reality of growing up.

• This was not always the case

  A letter to future offspring in the wake of a U.S. election.

• In the flesh

  On the Divine's experience of love from within a body.

• From Buster to Batman

  The blessings and curses of growing beyond imaginary friends.

• Are we there yet?

  How impatience can affect the stories we tell and the ways in which we remember.

• Ten places I want to visit (or re-visit without my children)

  An imaginative world tour through several historical sites with a surprise ending.

• Imperial cohabitation

  An evaluation of the messages that limit our household vision.

• Secondhand subversive

  Shopping to dismantle the empire, one article of clothing at a time.

• An open letter to literature

  Chronicling an English major's complicated relationship with books.

• Life on the threshold

  The nature poetry of Liberty Hyde Bailey and the igniting of an urban imagination.

• My first favorite

  On taking an unconventional route to becoming a lover of books.

• Writing with light

  The photographs of Andre Kertesz and the world of stories, and the stories of the world.

• Love, love, love…doo doo doo-doo-doo!

  A written tour of an imaginary musical.