14 May 2024
FamilyWhat to tell your spouse when words fail
Some things are so large that they resist being spoken. A letter gives them room to be said slowly, carefully, without interruption.
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Letters, legacy, and the end of time
On the things people mean to say, and why most of them wait too long to say them.
30 April 2024
PreparingThe comfort of a letter in dark times
A letter arrives once and stays forever. In the worst moments, the ones that come at 3am, a letter is the one thing that does not leave.
Read more12 March 2024
LegacyStewardship of your last words
You are a steward of everything God has given you — your time, your resources, your gifts. Your last words are no exception.
Read more13 February 2024
WritingWhy people cry when they finish writing
It is not sadness. It is relief. The thing you have been carrying has finally been set down, and for the first time in years, your hands are empty.
Read more23 January 2024
LegacyThe Christian tradition of farewell letters
From Paul to Polycarp to Bonhoeffer, Christians have written letters knowing they might not survive to say it in person. You stand in a long tradition.
Read more5 December 2023
WritingHow many letters should you write
One is better than none. But most people find, once they start, that they have more to say and more people to say it to than they expected.
Read more21 November 2023
FamilyLetters your grandchildren will never expect
They may not be born yet. But one day they will exist, and one day they will wonder who you were. A letter answers that question in your own voice.
Read more17 October 2023
ProphecyWhat Jesus said about his return
Not what commentators say. Not what prophecy teachers say. What Jesus himself said, in his own words, about the day he would come back.
Read more12 September 2023
PreparingThe case for writing it now, not later
Later is not a plan. Later is an assumption that tomorrow will be like today, and that you will feel braver then than you do now.
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