“Storied” Articles

This helpful collection of essays is a welcome guide to finding new books for young readers.

Children should be free to be children; it’s the job of adults to protect and preserve innocent life.

Stranger Things has always been about recalling people to life—about fighting for your life and others’ lives.

It is a thousand and one stories woven together in a tapestry, a Persian rug, of beauty.

“The Eleventh Hour” shows us that sometimes having faith like a child awakens belief when all else fails.

We don’t have any stories of heroes without heroes in real life.

Till We Have Faces expresses the way in which Christian storytelling at its best has the potential to work upon people.

Wordle feels like something so weird, wonderful, and pure that it shouldn’t exist on the internet in the Year of Our Lord 2022.

Stories that don’t end hint that the storyteller is writing aimlessly into the void, and they trap the audience in the world of the story.

Even criminals deserve a chance at redemption, and there is always hope where there is new life.

A Castle for Christmas is hopeful in the same way that Advent is a season of hope.

Eternals is a movie that purports to be about human exceptionalism, but doesn’t give us anything exceptional about humans to cheer for.

Immaturity and innocence must die, Dune says, for children to become adults.

Nate’s finally getting a taste of what it feels like to be on top, and he likes it. 

With an MLM, you give yourself over; you sell yourself to the business because you are the product. They make money off you and if you make any money, it’s off your downline.

Certainly grief fatigue is real and present with so many of us right now, but even in the midst of ongoing, present tragedy, we must pause when we can to remember why life is sacred at all.