Christian Women's Lifestyle Blog

by Jenny Erlingsson I can still remember the way my daughter looked at me several years ago when we were going over letters. This particular alphabet was also a challenge to me because we were living in Iceland. So when she blinked at me and couldn’t name English and Icelandic letters a few seconds after reviewing them, I thought it was mostly because of the language difference. But as the months passed, I realized that my younger daughter was processing things differently.

by Stephanie Mack As my fortieth birthday began to beam at me from the calendar, I found myself doing what many women do in these quiet, existential moments—perhaps especially us millennials, a nostalgic bunch: Reflecting. Examining. Pondering. Not in regret, exactly, but rather curiosity. I thought almost instantly of the girl I was at twenty-one, fresh out of USC—that bright-eyed, big-dreaming bride at the altar with her college sweetheart. Then the career girl in pen

by Jaime Jo Wright When I sat down to write The Bookshop of 99 Doors, I had all sorts of ideas of where I wanted the story to go. I started out with a dead Civil War captain, a house based on a legendary ruin in Malaysia (of all places) with 99 doors and a rumored 100th that led to a spiritual portal, and a ghost-hunting team of paranormal experts. Let’s face it. Those pieces don’t fit together easily, and in the world of Christian fiction, one may question how I even inten