Household and Beyond: the Common Good

Household and Beyond: the Common Good

There are so many centrifugal forces today that pull us away from what should be the center in daily life. I often dwell on the need to be intentional and re-focus on what we do inside the home. Yet this focus is not only compatible with but demands an appropriate...
The Home of Responsibility

The Home of Responsibility

The crisis of responsibility, which is obvious to anyone today, first took root in our homes. We should then address it in our home life. For, of course, home is the ‘home’ of responsibility. There is no context that so clearly demands taking responsibility for others...
3 Reasons to Do a Staycation

3 Reasons to Do a Staycation

By staycation I simply mean a sort of vacation done at home. It could be very short (even a day or two) or it could be a week or more. Ideally not a replacement but rather an addition to a vacation (a going way of some kind), a staycation can be an excellent...
Where Do You Graze Your Flock?

Where Do You Graze Your Flock?

It is perhaps the most important thing I ask someone I love. In a sense, nothing else matters. “Show me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest at midday.” (Song of Songs 1:7) Wherever that is, so there will I live. With you. This brings to...
Mothers and Swiss Army Knives: Seeing the Difference

Mothers and Swiss Army Knives: Seeing the Difference

Few of us reach for our Swiss army knife when we simply want to cut something. Aristotle asserts that nature is not like the Delphic smiths, makers of the original Swiss army knife, “a single knife for all kinds of use,” a knife with which, clearly, he was not...

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