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Together Paper – Forming Others Requires Forming Ourselves

27/07/2024

Forming our children requires formation of ourselves, and while we try our best, we can’t expect perfection, Emily Shaw explores in her latest Together Paper article.

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The Power of Silence – A Sub-Virtue of Temperance

24/07/2024

In the virtue of silence lies the hidden power of temperance – the power to listen deeply and make authentic connections. Stina explores the importance of silence in
fostering healthy and fulfilling relationships.

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Austen, Temperance and Sensibility

20/07/2024

Emily Shaw takes on the virtue of temperance in her latest blog, referencing Jane Austen’s character Marianne Dashwood from her famous novel Sense & Sensibility as a prime example of temperance not in action, and the lack thereof having effect on the world around her.

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A Christian False Sense of Security

13/07/2024

Elise Drum shares that comparison and relativism to those around us is a slippery-slope from having virtue turn to vice. And how we should be comparing ourselves to those we admire rather than those we feel morally superior to.

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Stewardship and the Virtue of Justice

25/06/2024

Stina shares the perspective of Justice in the form of stewardship, by means of giving others what is rightfully due of our finance, energy, talents and time.

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Dare to Jump: Forming Couples For Marriage

22/06/2024

Emily Shaw shares in the Together Paper the importance of preparation and human formation for better success in our marriages in this current age.

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Crossing the Line: Competition & Justice

15/06/2024

Justice does not always mean equal. Emily Shaw shares insight into how equality and equity do not mean the same thing, and how flexing the virtue of justice means things may not look fair from the outset.

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Butker, Bias & Leaning Into Your Vocation

08/06/2024

Emily shares her thoughts on the Butker speech and how the world has lied to us as to focussing on our selfish ideals, rather than focussing on God’s will for our life and following our vocation.

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A Temple of the Holy Spirit

01/06/2024

Elise Drum reflects on the human body, how we treat it, in what ways we may abuse ourselves mentally and physically, and considers how we truly are temples of the Holy Spirit.

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Stay Malleable: The Potter is Still Forming Us

22/05/2024

In Emily’s latest article in the Together Paper, she addresses how being perfected in the virtues is no easy task, but through desire for adult formation and openness to malleability, we can allow God to work in us, to go from merely ‘good’ to ‘perfection’.

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