Is Something about to Happen?
by Timothy Jones Once I was struggling to discern next steps in what God was calling me to do. (Well, there’s been way more than one...
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Mar 17, 2017
Those Kids Still Have No Idea
Last week, the internet nearly caved in on itself when a happy toddler in white glasses and a yellow sweater danced her way into her...
Dec 15, 2016
(Re) Remembering What We Mean
Author’s Note: Last May (2016) I enlisted Jamin Still’s visual genius and together we launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring our...
Nov 24, 2016
A Liturgy for Feasting with Friends
For the occasion of our final meal at Hutchmoot 2016, Doug McKelvey wrote this liturgy. He gave me permission to reprint it here in hopes...
Sep 15, 2016
Let Kids Fight Evil So They Can Be Heroes: A Response
A year ago, I posted an article titled, “Let Kids Fight Evil So They Can Be Heroes.” It was among the simplest, shortest articles I’ve...
Sep 5, 2016
Small Kids, Fat Books, and Chewy Ideas
I’ve got two children I like to call my own—for clarity, I’ve no other kids from whom I withhold that distinction, but I do enjoy calling...
Aug 11, 2016
We Need to Talk
I’m somewhat familiar with the feeling, but I’ve never made the decision. There was a period in my mid-twenties when I felt completely...
May 30, 2016
100-Year Vision
I carry through life many images and impressions from my annual childhood treks to Ponca City, Oklahoma. I remember the Marland Mansion &...
May 26, 2016
Notes to a Young Man Interested in My Daughter
I’m now at that stage in life when–as a father of 3 beautiful, sparkly, creative daughters each at or near college age—I have been...
Apr 26, 2016
To My Girls, On Your Baptism
To my beautiful daughters, Last night in our church, surrounded by so many of the people we love, I watched you stand up together and...
Nov 26, 2015
Don’t You Want to Thank Someone? (2012)
Happy Thanksgiving, Rabbit Roomers. I’m writing this from Shiloh, my parents’ 150-year-old Florida Cracker house, where we Petersons plan...
Jul 29, 2015
Let Kids Fight Evil So They Can Be Heroes
In the early to mid ’80s, I was a boy in a family where I was allowed to have a He-Man action figure, but not Skeletor. I could play...
Jun 17, 2015
Twenty Years
“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.” – African Proverb Twenty years ago when I married my wife, I did not know her. And...
Jun 10, 2015
Cultivating Creativity
At the start of each day for the past week, I’ve been doing an ink warm-up drawing to keep my ink skills flowing. A lot of my final...
Jun 1, 2015
The Man Who Planted Trees
[This piece first appeared at Jonathan-Rogers.com.] Until recently, my in-laws had a farm in South Georgia. When they bought the place,...
Aug 20, 2014
Comic Parenting Guilt
The inaugural Hutchmoot in 2010 was something else. All the speakers were amazing. Walter Wangerin, Jr. was masterful. Months later,...
May 20, 2014
An Artful Ally to Parents: Jennifer Trafton
Almost nothing is as refreshing to parents as someone who will come alongside you in the fight to love and shape your children. This...
Mar 19, 2014
A Tricycle, A Leg Trap
My friend Hilton grew up poor in South Alabama. He and his older brother didn’t have a lot of toys, but they did have one tricycle to...
Feb 20, 2014
The Long Way (by Alyssa Ramsey )
[We were so delighted to publish this at Story Warren because it zeros in on so much of what we are aiming for. But this doesn’t only...
Feb 17, 2014
An Epic Tale in Eight Hours a Day
When my aunt passed away, I inherited a little black journal of my grandfather’s that she had kept. It’s just big enough to hold in one...
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