A Husband’s Place: Forging Peace in the Home

A Husband’s Place: Forging Peace in the Home

A husband and father struggles to discover his place in the home. What exactly is his mission and how does he go about achieving it? A proper notion of peace, and of home, can offer clarification. Augustine’s definition of peace is my all-time favorite definition....
Restoring Craftsmanship to Restore Humanity

Restoring Craftsmanship to Restore Humanity

Cultivating the earth is an exercise in being human. And this exercise is more important today than ever before as we suffer an increasing loss of a sense of the human difference. Here I mean all of us, not just confused intellectuals or mislead youth. Human life is a...
Maturity: Focus in a Distracted World

Maturity: Focus in a Distracted World

As research continues to expose the catastrophic consequences of unreflective social media use—especially but not only for the young, we realize it is emblematic of a deeper problem affecting all of us. Most troubling is that this problem is so normal and so fostered...
Grandparenting: the Pinnacle of Marriage

Grandparenting: the Pinnacle of Marriage

There is much more than meets the eye in grandparenting. In grandparenting is perhaps the single greatest instance of the active human life coming to fruition. If this seems an exaggeration, it at least bears closer examination. We should not be misled by a popular...
The Eternal Root of Homelife

The Eternal Root of Homelife

How we live in a home stems from how God lives in eternity and how he wants to live with us. What might seem beyond imagining is really the root of family life and its incomparable importance. In a stunning reflection, Thomas Aquinas uses two verses of Proverbs,...
The Hard Reality of Disagreement in Marriage

The Hard Reality of Disagreement in Marriage

Open disagreement between spouses, or even just not seeing eye to eye, can be very painful. It is also quite common. Central to the art of marriage is to be able to accept this while also addressing it. Experience shows that it is to be expected. To some extent then,...

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