It seems like we live in a world where everyone thinks they have a right to an opinion about everyone else’s family size (and parenting strategies, but that’s another post entirely). Many people think two is the most appropriate number and are fascinated by asking the question, “Are you done now?” Some Catholics get a [...]
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We’re Not Just Bodies Walking Around
May 9th, 2013 · 155 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
Tags: babies·catholic·faith·pregnancy·WAPF·Weston A. Price Foundation·women's health
Convenience Food: Our Culture’s Attempt to Weasel out of the Physical Consequence of Adam’s Sin?
March 27th, 2013 · 47 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
I’ve been doing some more thinking about God’s plan for agriculture since the “Does Satan Hate Bread?” post and after writing about the seasonality of meat. I was pondering the verse in Genesis when God doles out the list of consequences for the first sin ever committed. Man’s sin damaged the threefold harmony of the [...]
Does Satan Hate Bread?
February 12th, 2013 · 147 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
Whenever we talk about bread being bad, whether it be because of phytic acid, lectins, carbs, or gluten, many Christians offer a simple rebuttal: Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life.” If Christ raised bread in such high esteem as to become bread, how can it be so evil? In fact, in Catholic teaching, [...]
Monday Mission: Don’t Try to "Get Something Done"
November 5th, 2012 · 19 Comments · Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go a whole week (or a day) without using the phrase "get something done" to talk about your goals for the day or "couldn’t get anything done" to evaluate the day’s success. Do you hear your own voice in those phrases? This mission was inspired when [...]
Tags: faith·kids·Monday Missions·organization·time
Mary and Martha Moment: Declutter Out of Love for God
November 1st, 2012 · 24 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
Remember that movie “Speed” with Keanu Reeves? You know, the guy who delivers lines in this voice: “I will sword fight you now. Yes. We will fight. I am delivering a line in a movie using my hero voice, but you do not need to remember that I am acting.” Anyway. The entire movie [...]
Tags: faith·Organizing in October
Does Being Too Strict on Food Take the Joy out of Family Life?
April 10th, 2012 · 114 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments, My Story
“I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our food restrictions,” my husband admitted to me last week. “What if they offer the kids a juice pouch, or the dreaded freezer pops with artificial colors? And then there’s the [...]
Do We Need “Stuff” for Faith?
September 16th, 2011 · 16 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments
I’ve really enjoyed pondering the ways in which I share my faith with my children and how being a parent enriches my faith so far in the Faith of Our Children series, but this final topic threw me for a loop. We’re supposed to write about the tools we use to build our children’s faith, [...]
Tags: catholic·faith·kids·sacramentals·The Faith of our Children
