About Living Arts Press™
This work was not born out of efficiency, innovation, or a desire to “fix” homeschooling.
Instead, it grew slowly from lived experience—watching how easily good intentions become heavy, and how quickly fear can replace confidence when education is treated as a performance rather than a long, faithful work.
At its heart, Living Arts Press™ is a place of return: a return to clarity, to rest, and to the conviction that formation unfolds best when it is not rushed.
Living Arts Press™ exists to serve weary homeschooling mothers through a calm, classical, and confessional approach to education.
A quieter posture toward education
We stand within the Christian classical tradition, shaped in particular by Charlotte Mason’s humane understanding of children as persons. Education, in this view, is not a system to master but a life to cultivate—through attention, habit, living ideas, and time.
For this reason, our work resists industrial models of schooling, whether modern or classical. We do not measure success by acceleration, output, or comparison.
Instead, we trust slow growth, ordinary faithfulness, and the hidden work that cannot be quantified.
This posture is not nostalgic. It is deeply practical—for mothers who must teach within the real limits of time, energy, finances, and strength.
Confessional, not performative
In practice, this means we teach and write with a clear sense of:
- vocation rather than self-invention
- grace rather than pressure
- realism about weakness rather than idealized strength
- and trust in God’s work in the ordinary rather than anxiety about outcomes
Instead, we speak to mothers who are sincere, tired, and deeply aware of their limits—and who need reassurance more than strategies.
If you are interested in how Charlotte Mason’s Anglican faith informs her educational philosophy, and how we engage that work from a Lutheran confessional perspective, further context is available.
Why we begin with rest
Many mothers come to Living Arts Press™ looking for homeschool help. We offer homeschool guidance for mothers who want to teach faithfully without pressure, performance, or fear.
What they are often carrying, however, is not a lack of curriculum but the weight of constant decision-making under urgency and noise.
This is why we begin where we do.
Before schedules, before plans, before purchases, we tend to the inner posture of the mother. When fear quiets, clarity returns. As urgency loosens, wise decisions become possible again.
Everything we offer flows from this conviction.
About the founder
Sarah has taught in both private and public school settings and brings a deep love of storytelling, relational teaching, and family life to her work. Through Living Arts Press™, she writes to encourage mothers toward peaceful, meaningful learning shaped by grace, beauty, and faithful presence.
Who this work is for
- take education seriously
- feel the weight of wanting to “get it right”
- are drawn to classical and Charlotte Mason ideas
- long for a calmer, more faithful way forward
It may not be for those looking for boxed curriculum, rigid plans, or fast results. This work favors clarity over control, depth over speed, and trust over technique.
An open door, without pressure
There is no rush to understand everything and no expectation to commit. This work will remain slow, steady, and available whenever you need it.
