The Man and the Woman Before God: Welcome to Season Two
Bright Hearth
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Do You Have a Father?
In the pre-modern world, a father gave his household its vertical dimension. But vertically didn't begin or end with him. Now we all live in a single story ranch style house. The unexpected consequence of this has been a doubt great in the father's authority. In our time, just what is a father supposed to be in charge of anyways? What to watch on TV? Consequently, modern houses don't have a vertical dimension built in. This is one more reason why piety itself has been downgraded to a walk in the garden. Piety consists in performing his duty. It is hard to see how duty can apply to the modern family. Duty impresses a structured hierarchy into our
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