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Letters & Devotion vs The Good and the Beautiful

We make one of these, so read this the way you would read any comparison written by a seller. What we can do is be specific about our own product, accurate about the shape of theirs, and honest about where they are the better answer. Their current price is on their site, not on this page, and the reason is at the bottom.

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What The Good and the Beautiful is

The Good and the Beautiful is a printed, parent-led curriculum from Jenny Phillips covering preschool through high school in language arts, math, science, history and handwriting, with art, nature and good literature woven through all of it. The books are genuinely beautiful, which is the point and not a decoration. Several courses are offered as free PDF downloads and printed sets are sold per level. It describes itself as nondenominational Christian, with doctrinal content limited to principles shared across Christian denominations. Its founder is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; their own FAQ addresses that directly, and a family for whom it matters should read what they say there rather than what anyone else says about it.

The pricing difference that actually decides it

The Good and the Beautiful is a one-time purchase per course per level, not a subscription. Some courses are free as PDFs you print yourself; printed course sets and the consumable student books are bought again for each child and each level. A household total is their per-course price, times subjects, times children, plus printing, repeated each year as children move up. Their prices are on their own site and change with their sales, so read them there.

Letters & Devotion is $29 a month for every child in the household, month to month, with no per-child seats and no course limits. That is $348 a year whether you have one child or four, or $290 a year on the annual plan. The first 30 days are free with no card, and when they end, lessons pause unless you choose to subscribe.

The comparison to run is the same either way: monthly price, times the number of children, times twelve.

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When The Good and the Beautiful is the better choice

  • You want school to happen in printed books at the table, with as little screen as possible. That is what The Good and the Beautiful is, from the first page. Letters & Devotion is a website with a teacher inside it, and a family that wants no screen should not buy a screen.
  • You want to do the teaching yourself and want a curriculum that assumes you will. Their courses are open-and-go for the parent, scripted so that a mother with no teaching background can read the lesson aloud and run it. Letters & Devotion hands the teaching to Clara instead, and if you would rather it stayed with you, choose them.
  • Money is tight and you can print. Their free PDF courses are real courses, and a family willing to print and bind can cover a large part of the early grades for the cost of paper and ink.
  • You want art, nature study and handwriting treated as part of the curriculum rather than electives. They integrate all three throughout; Letters & Devotion has visual art and music as courses and nothing comparable to their nature strand.

Where Letters & Devotion is different

A full Bible course every year, King James throughout

Every grade in Letters & Devotion carries a full Bible course, Genesis in kindergarten through Christian ethics and vocation in twelfth, with a memory verse each week from the King James text. The Good and the Beautiful integrates faith across its subjects rather than teaching Scripture as its own course; which of those you want is a real difference and worth deciding on purpose.

Origins, and who decides

Letters & Devotion teaches six-day creation in Creation units inside its science courses, and lets each family choose at signup whether evolution is taught alongside it as what mainstream science says, or never shown. The Good and the Beautiful presents God as Creator and, by their own account, does not teach evolution; read their FAQ for their current wording. A family should choose the curriculum that teaches what it wants taught, and here that choice stays with the parent.

A teacher inside the lesson, not a script for the parent

Clara reads the actual wrong answer your child gave and explains the specific mistake in it, in conversation, without a parent delivering the lesson. For a parent who cannot give the morning to teaching, that is the whole difference; for a parent who wants to, it is a loss.

One price for the household, and nothing to print

Letters & Devotion is $29 a month for every child in the family, no matter how many, with no per-child books, no per-level sets and no printing. All 84 courses are readable in full before you pay, every unit, skill and objective, with no account and no card.

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Before your child starts: what we collect and why

We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Ticking the box below is how you, as the parent, give consent.

Read what we collect and why

Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic writes Clara's replies from the chat, the lesson and your child's first name. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies into the read-aloud voice. Spoken answers are turned into text on our own server and never sent anywhere. Our email provider sends you reports. Nobody sells your child's data or uses it for anything else.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailing our support address. If you refuse the sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
  • Safety: if your child writes something suggesting they may be hurt or in danger, we email you and the owner of Letters & Devotion the same day.

Ticking the box below is how you, as the parent, give that consent. Full details, including how long we keep each thing: Privacy Policy (version 2026-10-09).

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Questions parents ask

Is The Good and the Beautiful an LDS curriculum?

Its founder is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the curriculum describes itself as nondenominational Christian with doctrinal content limited to principles shared across denominations. Their FAQ answers this question in their own words, and that is where a family should read it. Letters & Devotion is nondenominational, teaches from the King James text, names the questions on which Christians differ rather than settling them for your family, and publishes what it teaches on its own site.

Which one needs less of my time?

Letters & Devotion, by design. Clara does the teaching inside each lesson and you review afterward. The Good and the Beautiful is built for a parent at the table reading and running the lesson, and treats that as the point rather than a cost.

Is Letters & Devotion cheaper?

For a family using their free PDFs and printing at home, probably not. For a family buying printed sets for several children across several subjects each year, usually yes: Letters & Devotion is $29 a month for every child, $348 a year. Read their current prices on their own site and do the arithmetic for your family.

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Why there is no price for The Good and the Beautiful on this page

We checked in September 2026 and the sources contradicted each other, including the companies' own pages against the review sites. Publishing a competitor's price that turns out to be wrong is unfair to them and useless to you, and any figure here would be out of date within a month anyway. Ours is above, because it is ours and we can stand behind it. Theirs is one click away, on their site, where it is current.