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Wisdom and folly: essays on faith, life, and everything in between
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Publisher
Cruachan Hill Press
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
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From the Book
Friendship is always conditional
Online communities are not real communities
The ins and outs of male friendship
Do men need other men?
I don't belong here anymore
Can people with different values truly be friends?
Subversion through friendship
What does it mean to be faithful?
The time for preaching and teaching is over
Say it with a smile
Why is it so hard to be good?
"It's been God all along"
Being the saint for your age
Persisting contra God's will
Want to suffer shame for the Name? Start telling the truth
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"
Shop talk
The gates of hell will not prevail against your marriage
Top of the sixth, bottom of the ninth (and tenth)
The principle of subsidiarity in marriage
Arm in arm
The spiritual investment in your marriage
The flowers in the corner
The Proverbs 31 conundrum
Marriage: a life sentence
Being present in the marital act
The threats to a Catholic marriage
No country for married men
Laugh your way to heaven
When your wife doesn't respect you
That's the good stuff
What should a good Catholic family look like?
The most ordinary things
A father's eye view of motherhood
My son, where have you gone?
Mountains and homepaths
Saint Joseph's pain
Have all the babies
Second generation Catholicism
A wallet full of memories
Do the hard thing
Sex is the snare
Spiritual direction: men need not apply
The stay at home dad dilemma revisited
Don't fear the heart
Led like an ox: the effeminacy of carnal capitulation
Trad piety vs. an abasement of trust
"I no longer fear God, but I love Him"
Consummation What's old is new
The mammon of iniquity
Make room for mystery
"He who lives well dies well"
Wherever truth may be found, it belongs to his Master
I will see you there
What you live for: drafting your death wish
Scrupulosity: a thousand frightening fantasies
When you can't take the stairs
On secret faults
The art of listening is an act of charity
I will celebrate before the Lord
We are all a mess
Life by a thousand aspirations
The pet project of spirituality without mortification
All I hear is silence
Let's be honest: you're just not that into Him
You have ten fingers
If the love of the world is in you
In desperate need of a friend
I will not rise from here
Getting on base
The Church is hierarchical for a reason
The faithful bishop: a meditation
Beauty will not save the world
Bishops are born of families
Healing the Church from the ground up
Spare not the rod: a letter to our bishop
The Church will hurt you
A revolution of saints
Converts are made by witness, not pastoral letters
Why do I write?
The witching hour
Letter to an aspiring writer
What makes and artist an artist
Reasoned order and creative mess
Letter to a housewife.
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Contributors
Wells, Kevin author of foreword
ISBN
9781957206219
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