Is it “stepfamily” or “blended family?”

Should I say “stepfamily” or “blended family?”

How can my work to help marriages adapt to include blended families?

How can I help non-nuclear families feel seen and included?

What does the Bible say about birth control? On FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson host theologian Wayne Grudem, who explores God’s Word about tricky ethics surrounding contraception and fertility.

Author Albert Hsu is a suicide survivor. He didn’t try to take his own life, but he has grieved his own father’s suicide. Hsu remembers his brilliant 58-year old father, an electrical engineer by trade, who had been stricken with a stroke just three months prior to his suicide. He recalls his father’s battle with clinical depression and his lost sense of hope as he fought for normalcy in rehab. Hsu talks about the effect his father’s suicide had on their family and gives us a first-hand look at this complicated loss.

Ron Deal and Michelle Hill talk about the grieving process and how to care for yourself and others you know who may be grieving.

What is forgiveness? What isn’t it? Join us on the journey of biblical forgiveness with Leslie Leyland Fields, Voddie Baucham, and Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth.

“My wife had a miscarriage. Why do I feel so lost?” Eric Schumacher recounts the grief in his own marriage and how ultimately, trauma brought them closer.

Charmaine Porter shares candidly with Michelle Hill how she has processed her own discontent with being single, and how the church has—or has not—been helpful in her struggle.

If God is real, why do we suffer? Author Paul Miller proposes a new framework for life’s losses—and revolutionizes the way we see God in our pain.

Matt Chandler, Tiffany Lee, Chip Ingram, and Tim Muehlhoff address the dynamics involved in conflict, and coach us toward resolution and closer relationships in the aftermath.

We have a God who has been tempted in every way, but without sin. Trillia Newbell talks about a biblical view of eating disorders, so that young men and women will know it is OK to discuss their problems to get the help they need.

Parenting their sons’ autism, Sho Baraka and his wife Patreece felt blindsided—including a loss of dreams & sense of failure. On FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson talk with the Barakas about how God met them in their shame.

God is good, even when life presents challenges. Dr. Laura Hendrickson, a mother of an adult autistic son, shares what she’s learned about autism over the years and explains what treatments were helpful to her son during his development.

Did you know that 1 in 6 children have some form of learning disability and some form of developmental disability, according to the CDC?

Rosaria Butterfield illustrates how “radically ordinary hospitality” can be a bridge for bringing the gospel to friends and neighbors who don’t know Jesus.

How do you help a child or stepchild who feels lost, or angry, or who really fights against the family? And what if their anger or hurt is justified—and you deserve it, but everyone else doesn’t?

Stepcouples hope and pray they can have peaceful relations with their former spouses, and it is possible. But for some couples, no matter how much they try, the venom and vitriol of the former spouse drowns out all reason and compromise. Rodney and Lisa Webb, and counselor and therapist Helen Wheeler share their difficult blended journey.