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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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