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Heaven in Your Home Letters

The Hardest Spiritual Lesson

April 15, 2025

Listen Now In the sacred days ahead—the Holy Triduum, beginning this Thursday—each of us has the opportunity to encounter the cross in a new way. But will we, actually? To help answer this question, we’d like to do three things:…

Harmony, Disharmony, Repair

April 8, 2025

Listen Now Sometimes life is just simple. According to psychologist Ed Tronick’s 1970s research on videos of mothers interacting with their infants, the mother-infant relationship all comes down to three things: harmony, disharmony, and repair. “The infant starts off molded in the mother’s…

Barely Treading Water

April 1, 2025

Listen Now “Everyone we know is barely treading water,” a friend of ours shared the other day. And not long ago, a friend and mother of multiple young children mentioned that she and her family are in a “season of…

What Happens When You Ask for Help?

March 25, 2025

Listen Now Last week was a milestone. First, the backstory. As many of you know, our Trinity House Community ministry has run and operated Trinity House Cafe + Market since 2014. Last fall, about 114 monthly rent payments later (but who’s…

Your Trinity House 101

March 18, 2025

Let’s get back to basics this week with a “Trinity House 101” recap! To that end, we are excited to share a special new podcast interview with Joseph Gruber on the A Word from Our Outpost podcast. While Ever worked…

One Husband’s Sunday at 9 p.m.

March 11, 2025

Listen Now At about 9 p.m. on a stressful Sunday evening, which came on the heels of a stressful weekend, which came on the heels of a stressful week, I turned to Ever and asked, “How am I doing at being…

Remembering Your Spiritual Giants

March 4, 2025

Listen Now If you’re like me (Soren), you have giants who helped shaped your life of faith. I met one of mine in my freshman year of high school. Growing up non-denominational Protestant in the western suburbs of Chicago, I…

Family Reading Contest

February 25, 2025

Listen Now “‘Come on, Dad and Mom!’ our daughter goaded us the other day, ‘You’re falling behind!’ With New Year’s resolutions still in the air, we’re reminded of a family goal that our daughter set for us a few years…

A Tabor Vision of Your Spouse?

February 11, 2025

Listen Now With National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14), Valentine’s Day, and World Marriage Sunday (Feb. 9) upon us, we can’t help but take a moment to reflect on marital love. It’s a time to celebrate it and also to focus in on how we…

Beware the “Februarization of the Mind”

February 4, 2025

Listen Now Last Saturday, as we joined hundreds of parents filing into the public high school auditorium where the All-District Band (which included our 17-year-old son on trumpet) was to hold its concert, we were just glad we made it. It had been one…

Finding the Off-Ramp from Busy

January 28, 2025

Listen Now “Parents are so all-in with their kids’ activities and the culture of achievement that they scarcely realize they are sacrificing their family culture in the process,” Cristina D’Averso-Collins, Director of the Diocese of Metuchen’s Office of Family Life, shared…

Home Maintenance & Our Heavenward Journey

January 21, 2025

Listen Now What a memory. Ever’s dad was in town all the way from Ft. Worth, TX, for a rare visit to us in Leesburg, VA, and our kids were enjoying time with their beloved Papa. Except…that turned out to be the…