Eventually, if we are serious about building anything—a household, a church, a friendship, a community, a culture—we have to concern ourselves with preservation. We have to ask what threatens the thing we are building, what belongs inside it, what does not, what needs repair, what needs correction, what needs protection, and what perhaps needs to be driven away.More
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Inflation, Inheritance, and the Parable of the Prodigal Son
The prodigal son too was short-sighted. Asking his father for his share of the inheritance now, he then proceeded to spend it on lavish parties. America is like that.More