AMDG.  If you want to make boys into men, it requires a brotherhood of men to set a disciplined example.  Jason Craig joins the Kolbecast today to visit about calling men to conversion and brotherhood.  He, Bonnie, Steven, and Jordan discuss disorders of loneliness in today’s society, the imbalanced emphasis on mothers to the exclusion of fathers in various homeschooling discourses, and the necessity of living out mercy and community locally.  He also compares and contrasts centripetal and centrifugal forces in current life, shares about the organization Fraternus, and describes his experience of homesteading.  All in all, his message is that the classical world is a lived culture that requires men as well as women.

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Relevant Kolbecast episodes:

• 79 Doors to Your Memories, featuring Jordan discussing his book When the Earth Was Flat: One Boy’s Life at the Edge of the Millenium, to which Jason refers
• 111 What Treasures Remain
• 116 Things I Would Tell My Students

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Learn more about Fraternus here. Catch the first couple of episodes Till and Keep here and look for it in your favorite podcast app soon!

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Jason’s books:

• The Traditional Virtues according to St. Thomas Aquinas: A Study for Men
• Leaving Boyhood Behind
• The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead

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Jason also mentions a forthcoming book on localism to which he contributed: Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching

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