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Category Archives: Family

Oikonomic Wealth

August 20, 2014

In previous posts, I’ve tried to shape a conversation around the differences between economics and oikonomics by arguing that economics is centered in the …

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Resumes vs Roots (Economics vs Oikonomics)

July 27, 2014

In previous posts, I’ve started a conversation related to two different ways of seeing and being in the world: what I …

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Economics vs Oikonomics

July 18, 2014

**In the next few posts, I am going to spend some time unpacking what I think is a central way …

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Rule of Life

July 10, 2014

In several different posts (Set Your Mind on Things Above, The Beauty of Discipline, among others)  I have written about …

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Career Advice from my Mother

January 8, 2014

“We should go with our lives where we most need to go and where we are most needed” Frederick Buechner Growing …

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We Will Be Known By Our Love

September 18, 2013

The Martin family is trying something new: we are beginning a discussion with our seven and three-year old around the …

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The Christian’s Awakening

July 16, 2013

In one of my favorite novels, The Curate’s Awakening, by C.S. Lewis’ old Scottish master, George Macdonald, the main character, Thomas Wingfold, …

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There and Back Again

July 14, 2013

Since there are a good number of you who have just recently joined the conversation, I thought it might be …

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Moving to the Center

June 23, 2013

**This blog post has been greatly informed by time spent with two great thinkers and prophets of the scorched-earth kind, …

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The Art of Making a Life

June 18, 2013

“We must be careful with our lives, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going …

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