we abdicate the home for being the center of identity shaping, you know, and we let other things

be centers of identity shaping.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So when everything started going

down with the coronavirus, Jeff shot me a article by Andy Crouch,

who's a really favorite writer and thinker for both Jeff and I.

And he wrote a great article about what's going on.

But he had one line in there that I just wanted to tease out with you, Jeff,

because I thought, man, this is really relevant to what we are talking about at family teams.

He wrote, one of the things that this crisis represents is that we can reclaim the household as the fundamental unit of personhood, the place where we all are best known and cared for, reclaim the household as the fundamental unit of personhood.

I've thought a lot about, like, what is Andy saying there? Because that is very much what,

if you were to describe, we were to describe what we feel is the crisis of the modern family.

It's really the destruction of the household and the devolution of the family

into the nuclear family.

We've left being the household, a household that really was an economic unit, a religious

unit.

There was so much to the first century household.

And this was true all the way up till very

recently. Basically in 1950s, we kind of started to fall into nuclear family land for about 15

years. And then we've been into the modern family since then. So yeah, I just wanted to hear

you, Jeff, tease out that a little bit. What do you think, Andy's talking about reclaim the household is the fundamental unit of personhood? Yeah, I feel like he's talking

about like there's, we don't realize how much we abdicate the home for being the center of

identity shaping, you know, and we let other things be centers of identity shaping. So we're

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