by Amanda Cox   I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors, whether backpacking in the Smoky Mountains or strolling around my own backyard. Nature...

by Katie Powner   I’ve been a foster parent for almost ten years, and it would be an understatement to tell you it’s been a life-changing...

by Roseanna M. White   When I learned about the now-infamous book burnings of 1933 in Germany, I was partly horrified and partly...

by Jennifer L. Wright   Last Light Over Galveston wasn’t a book I had planned on writing.   I had actually been working on another book...

by Jerry B. Jenkins   When my wife’s and my eldest child, Dallas, was born, I invested a moment gazing into a mirror in the labor room,...

by Dana Mentink   The Lord watches over His sheep, even the silliest one that meanders over hill and dale, completely oblivious to their...

by Angela Carlisle   I have a lot in common with Allye, the heroine of Shadowed Witness . We both love tea, knitting, and caring for the...

by Sara Brunsvold   “Have you ever had something you’ve always wanted to do? An idea that wouldn’t leave you alone? An experience you...

What resilient women and failed rebellions can teach us about each other by Christine Hill Suntz   On January 1, 2021, I made a...

by Shelley Shepard Gray   I do love when a story revolves around two people from completely different worlds. It’s a common storyline in...

by Robin Jones Gunn   Norman Rockwell’s side-by-side painting entitled Going and Coming reminds me of childhood trips to the beach. The...

by Shannon Sue Dunlap   “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13:12, NIV)   Forty...

by Jane Kirkpatrick   “I have your next story!” She stood in line at the Woodland, Washington’s Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens to have me...

by Liz Johnson   I booked the excursion for my niece. At least that’s what I thought as my family and I planned our trip to Prince Edward...

by Suzanne Woods Fisher In 2018, five women in Jackson, Wyoming, launched a campaign called Shoot 'Em With a Camera—Not a Gun to protect...

by Ann H. Gabhart I’m not a dancer. I’ve never whirled around a ballroom in an elaborate, ruffled and beribboned ballgown. About the most...

by Joanna Davidson Politano I do a lot of looking down in this season of my life—down at my computer, down at my nursing babies, down at...

by Pepper Basham Grief isn’t usually something people associate with romantic comedy. Because it isn’t funny. It’s hard, long,...

by Kim Vogel Sawyer In September of 2020, as restrictions were beginning to lift following the COVID quarantine, my husband took me on a...

by Lynn H. Blackburn When I was younger, I frequently made the following statement: I’m not creative. At all. This was before I began...