What Do We Fear?

Perhaps in our age we have made science our god and when, like Baal failing to rain fire from the heavens, our god lets us down, what will we do? Cut ourselves until the blood flows? Fear sickness or any other threat to our body?

Daily FaithKatie SaundersMay 6, 2020Covid-19, Coronavirus, Trust, Faith, Science

A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Saunders about Faith and Psychology

“And I have an admiration for the people that I work with, because I know it was hard for them to get therapy, to overcome their sense of embarrassment, as if there’s something wrong with having a mental illness. And yet they come in and they gift me with their presence and they gift me with their stories and they gift me with the chance to try to help them.”

ConversationsKatie SaundersMay 2, 2020Martin Luther, Melancholia, Mental Health

Several Steps to Reduce Screentime

Look at your life. Examine your habits. Honestly assess that nifty little screentime function on your phone. Have you made the changes you want? Have you decreased the overall time you spend looking at a screen every day? If you haven’t, and you have the desire to change that, this is for you. Here are four steps to help you reduce your daily screentime.

Woman's Craft, Intentional LivingShannon AllgeierApril 28, 2020Screentime, Computers, Phones, Television, Habits, Boredom

A Podcast Recommendation: Catching Foxes

One of Shannon’s favorite podcasts to listen to.

What We're LearningShannon AllgeierApril 24, 2020Catching Foxes, Podcasts, Recs

In Defense of the Personal Library

The art, the pleasure, of building your own library attaches specific books to your soul. You make them your own, not only by reading what is written in them, but by touching them often, being perennially reminded of their lessons, marking them with your own thoughts, and committing them to your entire being.

Martin Luther on Mental Health: A Presentation by Stephen Saunders, Ph.D.

Stephen Saunders, professor of Psychology at Marquette University, explains how Martin Luther dealt with mental health and how that practice was directly derived from Luther's theology.

Learning in Wartime - or during Covid-19

One small silver lining in the midst of this crisis is that we are now in an excellent position to learn from those who lived through such harrowing events and then to apply their hard-earned lessons to our lives. One such individual was C.S. Lewis.

What We're Learning, BooksShannon AllgeierApril 14, 2020C.S. Lewis, Covid-19, Coronavirus, Learning in Wartime

The Great Battle: A Brief Reflection

And so, through all this, entrenched in both spiritual and physical disease, we come to another Good Friday, the Day of days, the culmination of the Great Battle.

Daily FaithKatie SaundersApril 10, 2020Good Friday, The Great Battle, Bernard of Clairvaux, soldiers, coronavirus

Sourdough: The Tips, Tricks, and Recipes that Work Best for Us

Shannon and Katie share their favorite pieces of advice for baking with a sourdough starter and the recipes that have worked best for them.

Classical Music Should Be Beautiful

This is what I want to see in modern classical music – ingenious effort expended to draw in the listeners, in the process exposing them to the best intellectual music the world has to offer, and making them better, more appreciative listeners in the long run.

Erik's Posts, What We're LearningErik SaundersApril 7, 2020Erik's Guest Post, Musicd, Classical Music

A Conversation about the Idea for Penelope's Loom, the Name, and...Feminism?

Click to listen to our first recorded conversation. We discussed how we developed the idea for Penelope’s Loom, where the name comes from, and then we jumped right into a conversation about Woman’s Craft, feminism, and what we think of when we hear the term womanhood.

Baking Bread: The Joy of Developing a Craft

Baking bread renews and generates humility in my prideful heart. It is difficult to make good bread by hand and it requires great attention to someone else’s word and to the dough. Mastery takes patience, care, and a good bit of failure.

Woman's CraftKatie SaundersMarch 31, 2020Bread, Sourdough, Cultural renewal