What a Woman Does in the Home

What a Woman Does in the Home

I have written on this before, and I plan to write on it again. I know I will never sufficiently understand it in this life, but I will keep trying. I’m talking about what a woman does in a home. Herein is a primordial revelation about how God loves us, and...
Front Porch Time: An American Tradition*

Front Porch Time: An American Tradition*

In The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place, Michael Dolan shares that in researching his book he discovered that what he thought was as American as “a greenback dollar” turned out to be instantiated across epochs and cultures. What Dolan learned...
Speaking as Though I Received What I Say

Speaking as Though I Received What I Say

There are a number of lines that I repeat often to my students as capturing root truths. One of them is this: always be attentive to what you can call ‘mine,’ or not. At the heart of reality is the truth that much can become ‘mine’ that was not originally mine. This...
Coping with Busyness: Leisure

Coping with Busyness: Leisure

In Aristotle and Aquinas’s mind everything comes down to leisure—that is, if we understand the term as they do. So I never tire of trying to understand it, and of revisiting key statements about it. One of my favorite lines gives a great angle into one of the foremost...
Joy Comes with Morning

Joy Comes with Morning

There is something about morning. I was struck that in Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on the gospel he associates morning with “the glory of the resurrection” and quotes Psalm 30:5, “Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Yet I ask myself: does...

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