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2021
February
7 Intimacy Spoiled

2020
December
24 Are you lying to your children about Santa?
24 ‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus’
24 G. K. Chesterton on Santa Claus
23 It’s the old things that startle and intoxicate
23 A better way to think about work-life balance
23 Stop wasting food! Get this magical machine.
23 What are neat piles of leaves for?
November
26 The First 22 Years
26 The Minimum Requirement
26 How to Choose a Career
11 Don’t treat your wife as an “equal”
11 The most important thing for my children?
11 The Merits of Motherhood
October
28 It’s Irresponsible to Teach STEM
28 Director of Your Life
28 Who needs to know about your life?
28 A Tale of Two Families
28 The Wrong Kind of Work
14 The Overflowing (vs. Competing) Home
14 Worrying too much (and avoiding charity)
14 Is your family really more important than your work?
13 12 Most Important Metrics for your Child’s (and your) Education
September
30 Has technology been good for us? Or bad?
16 Rebel Educators
2 The Upside-down News Pyramid
August
19 The Procrastinator
5 How much cake should I eat?
2 The absurd trade-offs of modern work
July
20 Environment eats intention
18 Efficient is over-rated
16 Two Lights: Which is more real?
8 Why modernity remains primitive
6 Tell Your Boss You Don’t Want a Raise
June
24 The Home: A Space that Speaks
24 10 Habits for Healthy Information Consumption
23 What’s your idle?

2019
June
29 Working Differently
March
15 Rediscovering Home Economics
13 Rethinking Education
January
17 A Return to Ritual
16 Liturgizing Life
14 Living Simply
12 A good home is like good soil

2018
July
10 It’s too late for me
9 Who is it for?
May
13 Which way ought I to go?
12 The home is not the point
10 The way forward (not back)
March
26 What is Back to the Home?

2016
May
25 The most meaningful, profound adventures of your life are hiding in plain sight
March
31 God never gets tired of forgiving
1 Which monk are you?
February
24 Beautiful Art: The Virgin Consoles Eve
3 Overcoming our Modern Snobbishness
3 Material beings vs spiritual beings
January
29 A tale of two babies
1 For when the thrill is gone

2015
July
9 Unimpressed by miracles
May
13 A Different Kind of Life

2014
October
7 This is what it feels like
September
17 On to Something Big
4 How good things in life can be dangerous
August
27 The Purpose of School
21 The reason you don’t have enough time
14 This is in God’s plan for you today
July
18 How to deal with darkness
2 Willing to Watch
June
24 The Great Story of the “Sign of the Cross”
12 Why you should think about your death
6 How did the first Christians worship?
May
29 Do it anyway
21 Break the convention. Keep the commandments.
April
24 10 Things We Could Do If We Didn’t Love Porn So Much
16 Are you tired?
7 Are you profiting from your sin? You should be.
March
3 5 reasons to love fasting
February
25 7 Steps to a Holier Life – by Mother Teresa
13 The best way to drink: Carelessly
January
9 Why your life seems ordinary

2013
October
30 Don’t get too comfortable
10 Do you consume information? Or does it consume you?
September
24 Francis’ Cup O’ Tea
12 Forgetting Ourselves Completely
August
21 12 Most Important Metrics for your Child’s (and your) Education
8 That annoying, really hurtful person in your life
July
30 It’s My Fault
11 The REAL Reason to Quit Facebook (and 10 what-ifs)
5 Before the first skirmish
June
26 The first skirmish
13 Are you as free as you think?
5 Proving God exists
May
30 Made to Choose
23 Perseverance, not Perfection
15 The Secret to Living Life to the Full
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