Category: The Imaginative Life

Growing Down: Reclaiming a Childlike Imagination

14 December, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

Brian Aldiss suggests that children remind us of our decay. There was once a time when we dreamed long dreams and hoped large hopes, imagining remarkable possibilities for our life stories. We used to dream

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A Quote from Winston Churchill

30 May, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

  “You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many

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Gleaning the Savior

5 April, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

The more healthy the imagination, the more it sees the world as it really is: enchanted with the divine presence. Like harvesters, we walk the fields of this world and look for the marks of

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A River In The Sky

27 March, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 1 category

Imagine this: A river in the sky. I have five children, four girls and one boy. Guy time is a rare and valued treat. When my son was about three, we bought him two foam

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Sacramental Attunement

12 March, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 3 categories

Life is about taking risks. By risks I do not mean jumping out of airplanes, playing chicken with a train, biking across America, or even chasing elephants. The risk I suggest is far greater and

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The Baptised Imagination: Conference Lectures

1 March, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 3 categories

You’ll find here some insightful talks by Ken Myers (Mars Hill Audio) and Matthew Dickerson (The Mind and the Machine, A Hobbit Journey) that help us recover the imagination and recognize its significance. Enjoy.

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Life As A Night Terror

26 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 3 categories

                    Imagine this: Night Terrors. I was eleven. I dreaded the night time and so a visceral and physical something thickened in my belly and chest

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A Quote From Geoffrey Chaucer

14 February, 2013 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

                    “All men know that the true good is Happiness, and all men seek it, but for the most part by wrong routes—like a drunk man

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