Now That We're A Family

Long time listener and I love these folks! Thank you for all of the encouragement and practical tips while I grow my faith and my family. God bless you!

I am a wife and mother with 2 boys (2 years old and 5 months old) and I recently found yalls podcast and I wanted to say thank you- listening to your biblical view on so many aspects of life has changed my perspective for the better. Hearing you both share about parenting all your children, training them up and loving each other in the midst of parenting has led me to believe I can have the big family my husband and I have wanted! I have been edified by your sound judgment, simplicity in the chaos and saturation in the Gospel. I am grateful for your honesty and openness, from which I am benefiting. Thank you both :)

I just started subscribing to you guys after I heard Katie on culture apothecary. I love your beliefs,wisdom, and advice.

I’ve listened to Elisha and Katie for over three years. I was initially drawn in by Jenise’s wisdom, but I stayed because they consistently championed values that are increasingly rare: protecting family connection, refusing to let youth sports dictate family life, honoring the Sabbath, and shaping ambition around God’s design for marriage and family. Those convictions were what made their message so compelling. Lately, though, I’ve found myself wrestling with what feels like a tension between those values and what they now share publicly. Hearing about family dinners being interrupted by sports, the Sabbath becoming more flexible around activities, and the possibility of stepping away from homeschooling because of the demands of a growing business has been surprising to me. As someone who has listened for years, it’s been difficult to understand how these changes fit with convictions that once seemed so central to their message. I fully recognize that every family has seasons, changing circumstances, and decisions that outsiders can’t fully understand. I’m not writing to judge those decisions or expect perfection. I simply wanted to share that, as a long-time listener, I’ve felt some sadness watching what once seemed like defining convictions become less clear. I’m deeply grateful for all I’ve learned from them over the years, and I sincerely hope the values that first encouraged so many families continue to remain at the heart of what they teach and model.