8 unique and intentional ideas for an outside-the-box Thanksgiving
Avoid the chaos and stress threatening to take over the holiday season from Halloween to New Year's with these eight outside-the-box Thanksgiving ideas to simplify and spice up your celebration!
8 unique and intentional ideas for an outside-the-box Thanksgiving
Avoid the chaos and stress threatening to take over the holiday season from Halloween to New Year's with these eight outside-the-box Thanksgiving ideas to simplify and spice up your celebration!
Growing up with ultra-processed foods, Gina's life was changed when she tried real maple syrup for the first time. And it taught her a larger lesson, too: even in the most commercialized, artificial world, there's always something real to be found.
A house curated by real-life is better than a perfectly matched and designed showroom. Here's a guide that shows how to layer old with new, personality with personality, real with storied, to collect a meaningful, welcoming, and reasonably messy home.
Feeling sad, lonely, perplexed? The new Doctor of the Church can help
Everyone Desires the Aesthetic Cross
John Henry Newman's "Mission Prayer" is so much more than a prayer, says Sarah Robsdottir - it's a chin-lifting, life-giving, 30-second benediction. If you're feeling sad, lonely, or perplexed, this prayer will be good for your soul.
We like to picture our crosses in heroic terms: we are persecuted because we stood up for the truth, we maintain steady faith during the illness of a loved one, etc. But the cross is messy and humiliating. How about getting fired because you just weren't performing well enough? Br. Gabriel O'Neill helps us root out our desire for the "aesthetic cross."
Taking your little ones to church can be unpredictable and far from perfect — but it's absolutely worth it. There's no quick fix for making church with little ones easy, but here are a few strategies that can help your kids learn to sit through and even love being at church.
It's easy for us to forget that toddlers have basically zero context for anything you tell them. Long explanations are far less meaningful to them than simple directions. Here are some tips for building understanding, meaning, and sense in the mind of your little one.
5 Decor Mistakes That Make Your House Feel More Like a Showroom Than a Home, Designers Warn
Feeling a little upset in your stomach? Rotate these gut-healthy ingredients through your diet, focusing on diverse, fiber-rich, and fermented options.
Seven Samurai, the 1957 masterpiece of a film, is about a poor village whose inhabitants hire seven samurai to protect them from bandits. Deep down, it's a meditation on leadership, honor, humility, and what it means to live by a code. Here are seven lessons from this film.
We tend to dismiss the suburban garage as a symbol of consumerism (think of houses where the garage looks bigger than the house itself), but Sarah Wilder argues it's more than storage for cars. It's a father-son workshop, a rite of passage, a space of ownership and repair. And losing garage culture means losing something deeply American.
As we continue to fight for a culture of life, it's good to remember the heroic example of those who lived in perhaps the darkest and deadliest period of human history, the 19th century. Here is an introduction to several "women warriors" who bore witness to the culture of life in the midst of the dealth culture of the Nazis.
As we continue to fight for a culture of life, it's good to remember the heroic example of those who lived in perhaps the darkest and deadliest period of human history, the 19th century. Here is an introduction to several "women warriors" who bore witness to the culture of life in the midst of the dealth culture of the Nazis.
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