If you follow Living Letters with any regularity, you might have noticed every month has a theme. The May first blog was the story of three hymnwriters. The next one was supposed to be about worship music, and th...

My treks through cemeteries a few weeks ago, left me thinking about many things—how fleeting life is, how u...

God spoke to Jeremiah early in his life saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5). God&r...

Recently I read the following from a book of advent devotions:

“I feel so strongly that among those of us who have grown up in church and who can recite the gr...

Taken from the words of the angels to the shepherds on the night of Jesus’ birth, these words are frequently excerpted and repeated this time of year. It is as if they are associated in the public’s m...

Sometimes when we Americans gather around the table for a Thanksgiving feast, and everyone is asked to say something they are thankful for, we say stupid things like, “I’m thankful that Aunt Mary didn...