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The Top 5 articles for your week:“Routine Maintenance” (Harper’s)Because - are habits and routines “machine-like” or are they closer to what Benedictine monks discovered in medieval times as a healthy way to live?“It does not escape me that what I’ve been describing as a spiritual discipline bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the cruder ethos of “life hacking.” Perhaps I am no different from th...

Dear Friends,Happy Epiphany! We’ve got a name for the podcast - Wear is the Love. Like it? Hate it? Michael is still open to another option, so let us know your best case for a different name. In our second episode, we discuss predictions for 2022 amongst other things, like having COVID in our household this week. After this podcast episode, all new episodes will appear via the weekly Top 5 email,...

As you can see, we decided to try out a podcast together. We hope you’ll like it, and most of all, we hope it’ll be fun. The podcast will be a companion to the newsletter, and it will feature marital chatter about the latest in politics, faith and family life. Sometimes we may talk about things or issues outside of what’s written on Substack, but mostly we want this to be a place where we talk abo...