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Put It Back: Shopping like a Saint
Season 3 Episode 4
Must you always act like Uncle Screwtape in the aisle? Do you have to storm the register like an ogre, or steal that parking spot with unconscionable…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Wipe the Seat When You're Done: The Christian Art of Using Public Restrooms
Season 3 Episode 3
Mothers give the talk beforehand ("don't touch a n y t h i n g"). When inside, we tiptoe. We're shocked when we walk into one that isn't repr…
8 months ago
Recreate Harder: Going to Playgrounds and Stadiums
Season 3 Episode 2
When the presumptuous dad “looks up” while pushing his daughter on the swing, it isn't an innocuous glance. It's a glare meant to jab the jugular. Wh…
8 months, 1 week ago
Your Table Is Not Your Own: Dining Out Like a Christian
Season 3 Episode 2
Your table is not your own, which is why you have to wait for it. But you don't have to do the dishes, which is a plus. Yet you have to eat in front …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Desire and Discipleship (with Special Guest, Rev. Dr. Nick Barrett)
Season 3 Episode 1
Three guys walk into a hotel room in Brazil, clip mics onto their t-shirts, and start excasting. All heaven breaks loose. They start talking about ev…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
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…
9 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…
9 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…
11 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…
11 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…
11 months, 2 weeks ago