Heather Morton

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Heather Ferngren Morton is a writer based in Cheverly, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., where she lives with her husband and their three children. Her work has appeared in Plough, Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, Fathom Magazine, and other publications.

Recent Essays

Atticus, Scout, and the Gift of Children: On Reading To Kill a Mockingbird with my Daughter in 2020

Heather Morton - March 24, 2021

This is the humbling gift our children offer. If we seek to shape their character, at some point in the journey we’ll find ourselves backed into a corner, faced with our own hypocrisy.

A Resurrection Story

Heather Morton - May 20, 2020

On May 20, 1945, days after the end of World War II, my mother’s Aunt Anne was shot in both legs by a Communist gunman in Yugoslavia and left for dead.