It was one of those muggy, hot evenings last month—the kind of evening so common this summer, with a thundershower often interrupting but not bringing any relief to the sticky heat. We were gathered at my nep…

Homeschooling was a given for us. My husband and I never sat down and had a conversation about it. We never methodically weighed the pros and cons. It just made the most sense to us, intuitively. So we went for it,…

As the mother of adopted children and later as a kinship parent to her grandchildren, Susan Seavers has sometimes felt misunderstood by other Christian parents. “I think it comes from wanting to meet the need…

Jordan Smith has been writing on occasion for Living Letters since its inception. Each time she has shared with us…