Guest Voices

We have wonderful readers from all over the world and they are using the reviews and Links found here in some exciting ways. We would love to share your work and ideas in this area of the website. Please contact us if you’d like to share your own work connecting children’s and youth literature with our shared faith story.

Today is a Baptism Day

10 September 2018, Comment are Off

We are happy to welcome back and celebrate with Storypath guest author Anna V. Ostenso Moore as she shares ways to use her new book that is being published on September 15, 2018. One of the joys of my ministry is working with people of all ages preparing for baptism. When I...

Peace is an Offering: Children and Charleston

19 June 2015, 1 Comment

As I write this, pastors, parents and church educators, are considering how to talk to their children about the events of the last few days with the murder of nine people gathered in their church sanctuary to study the Bible and pray together. As adults, we can hardly deal with...

Space for God in Family Storytime

07 October 2014, Comment are Off

As I was leaving church after a chaotically beautiful Christmas pageant rehearsal, a young father approached me. His family had joined Nativity within the past year. He was delighted to share that his shy four-year-old daughter had begun to end family storytime with her baby...

Anna Hibiscus’ Song (and an Interview with Hanna Schock of Picture Book Theology)

26 August 2014, 1 Comment

Earlier this year, we were so excited to find another site where connections between children’s books and faith are being made. If you aren’t familiar with Picture Book Theology, we hope you will be by the end of this post. To introduce you to the site, we thought...

Assembling and Managing a Picture Book Library

19 August 2014, 2 Comments

Assembling and managing a picture book library takes time and resources, but it can be joyful work. Here are a few things I have learned as I have grown the library of picture books for my congregation, Nativity Episcopal Church: Read, read, read. Always have a stack of books at...

Biographies: Meeting the Cloud of Witnesses

30 June 2014, 1 Comment

Virginia Thomas, co-author of Children’s Literature for All God’s Children and one of our regular book reviewers on Storypath, has written an introduction to the role of biography with children and youth as a prelude to reviews of six particular biographies. The book...

Guest Voices: Wondering with Sacred Stories

28 August 2013, 3 Comments

It is always exciting to us to hear from those of you in homes and churches who are using stories in creative and engaging ways. On our new site, we wanted to be able to share some of those stories with you! Today we welcome guest blogger Anna Ostenso Moore. “I wonder where God...