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Juggling All the Jobs: Family-Life Balance (An Excast)
Season 2 Episode 17
It's pretty easy to ruin your family. Just sell your soul to your career. Then you can uproot your family or stay super late at work and miss bedtime…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Things You Should Say More Often to Your Kids (An Excast)
Season 2 Episode 16
You don't have to carry around all that guilt. Or put your arm around hypocrisy like you usually do. Don't you want to get rid of that haunted consci…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Regulating for Righteousness: A Family Rule
Season 2 Episode 15
What happens when you take a human ear, put a splash of John Cassian in it, pour some wisbits from Hugh of St. Victor on top, and then pepper it with…
9 months ago
Are You Not Entertained? The State of our Screens and Souls
Season 2 Episode 14
Spitballing, here, but perhaps leisure is a factor in the instigation and perpetuation of mental illness. Perhaps our experience of entertainment, in…
9 months, 1 week ago
Say You're Sorry! Siblings and Society
Season 2 Episode 13
"Blood is thicker than water," they say. What they don't tell you is that it boils much quicker and everybody gets burned. As every parent knows, sib…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Spank for the Common Good?
Season 2 Episode 12
You like the taste the soap? Yea, me neither. But how do you know what soap tastes like? I bet your mother probably introduced it to your palate back…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Do You Have to Like Them? The Purpose of a Parent
Season 2 Episode 11
What is a parent? What is the field and domain of parenting? Do you become a parent as soon as you have a kid? Can you be a parent without having you…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Button Your Shirt: Clothing and the Common Good
Season 2 Episode 10
You can’t walk around town without pants—you’ll get arrested for indecent exposure. And you can’t play basketball without sneakers or you’ll get a ru…
11 months ago
Homemaking and the Common Good: Food
Season 2 Episode 9
Creation is dripping with communion and hospitality. It all starts with the triune God setting the table for human beings. We get to eat green leaves…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Homemaking and the Common Good: The Front Porch and Backyard
Season 2 Episode 8
You may put a lot of time and thought into how you present things inside the home–like the inspirational quotes on the walls and the fluffy toilet pa…
1 year ago