You don't have to carry around all that guilt. Or put your arm around hypocrisy like you usually do. Don't you want to get rid of that haunted conscience? You just have to stop pride clutching. Walk over there, and say it. Say, "I'm sorry." Say, "I love you." Say, "good job." Parents aren't above peccadillos. Fathers can utter felicitations. Superiors can say they are sorry.

In this episode, Chris and Kyle discuss things we should say more often to our kids. We don't tell our kids we love them enough (perhaps only when we drop them off at school). We don't say we're sorry when we should (like after losing our cool). We don't say "yes" enough (especially when all they want to do is throw the pigskin). You don't have to tell them they're the best, because that's a lie. But you could edify them once in a while.

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Welcome to another episode of Two Pour Spirits.

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

Project : Neighbor is co-directed by Kyle David Bennett and Christopher Cimorelli.

https://www.projectneighbor.org/ | https://x.com/proneighbor |

What happens when you take a human ear, put a splash of John Cassian in it, pour some wisbits from Hugh of St. Victor on top, and then pepper it with a little Plato? You get a podcast episode that talks about domestic disorder and patterns of fear, frustration, and freakouts. You get a conversation about household habits—parents as abbots and children as mini-monks.

In this episode, Chris and Kyle explore the notion of a family Rule. A Rule is a document with instructions for a single house to monitor and moderate individuals goods within community. It aims to make everybody's lifestyle consistent with our Lord's Kingdom. It sanctifies our shuffle. So gone is the day of letting the tiny tyrants throw their wills around willy-nilly. Get yoself a Rule.

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Welcome to another episode of Two Pour Spirits.

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

Project : Neighbor is co-directed by Kyle David Bennett and Christopher Cimorelli.

https://www.projectneighbor.org/ | https://x.com/proneighbor |

Spitballing, here, but perhaps leisure is a factor in the instigation and perpetuation of mental illness. Perhaps our experience of entertainment, in which we passively enjoy or amuse ourselves to death, is decapitating our attention. Maybe concerts, movies, competitions, travel, and literature are full of sneaky and sinister sins and the screens we hold have our souls in their hands. Just spitballing.

In this episode, Chris and Kyle tackle entertainment in the family—basement, living room, and bedroom. They take stock of what we are feeding our feeds and why we are willingly walking in various wastelands. Perhaps we as parents want to get away from our kids, so we intentionally throw them into “techno-hypnosis.” Also, Kierkegaard was wrong: boredom isn't the root of all evil; negligence is.

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Welcome to another episode of Two Pour Spirits.

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

Project : Neighbor is co-directed by Kyle David Bennett and Christopher Cimorelli.

https://www.projectneighbor.org/ | https://x.com/proneighbor |