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Why Agenda-Driven Kids’ Books Feel Fake - S.D. Smith
He did not sit down to write a courage curriculum.
When S.D. Smith started The Green Ember, the assignment was simpler: tell his own kids a wonderful, exciting adventure. No heavy-handed “this will teach them good vs. evil.” If your own roots are in Scripture and reality, he says, that comes through. If you start with the sermon and reverse-engineer a plot, kids feel the phoniness—the way you feel it when a “friendship lunch” turns into a sales pitch.
This clip is the difference between allegory and applicability, propaganda and a gift, using children as contacts versus loving them with a…
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