Jun 29, 2016 | Good Work, Restoring Home Life, Wednesday Quotes
“…the heart of this common area is a kitchen or an eating area since shared food has more capacity than almost anything to be the basis for common feelings… …all the members of the family [need] to accept, fully, the fact that taking care of themselves by cooking is...
Mar 2, 2016 | Good Work, Wednesday Quotes
“That day when Turnus raised the flag of war… The high commanders… From every quarter drew repeated levies And laid the wide fields waste of their field hands.” Virgil, The Aeneid I have always been alarmed by the ease with which a sand castle is stomped down by a...
Jan 27, 2016 | Good Work, Introducing Aristides, Wednesday Quotes
“In fine, having established the dominion of his city over so many people, he himself remained indigent; and always delighted as much in the glory of being poor, as in that of his trophies.” Plutarch on Aristides This renowned Athenian statesman’s attitude toward...
Jan 20, 2016 | Articles, Crisis Magazine, Crisis Magazine, Good Work, Wednesday Quotes
How each of us responded to the Lotto jackpot gives us an opportunity to reflect on our relationship with money. I posted this article today at Crisis Magazine. My series on Aristides will return next Wednesday. John CuddebackHusband, father, and professor of...
Sep 2, 2015 | Good Work, Wednesday Quotes
“The man who keeps his oath, or is just and good, will not be favored, but the evildoers and scoundrels will be honored…” Hesiod, Works and Days Whom do we as a people honor? Aristotle once asserted that a nation will produce the kind of men that it honors. There is...
Jul 8, 2015 | Good Work, Good Work (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“The gods keep livelihood hidden from men. Otherwise a day’s labor could bring man enough to last a whole year with no more work.” Hesiod, Works and Days In both biblical and ancient Greek accounts, work is something of an enigma. Having an aspect of punishment, it is...
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