Study Guides by
Justin Whitmel Earley
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Habits of the Household
In Habits of the Household, Justin Whitmel Earley argues that the most powerful parenting tool available to families isn't a grand strategy or a weekend retreat — it's the ordinary, repeating rhythms of daily life. Drawing on the Christian tradition of liturgy, Earley makes the case that the small moments of the household (waking up, eating together, disciplining a child, putting kids to bed) are not interruptions to spiritual formation but the very place where it happens. The book's thesis is simple but convicting: habits form hearts, and whoever designs the habits of your household is discipling your family — for better or worse. Earley invites parents to be intentional architects of those habits, not passive passengers swept along by whatever the culture (or the screen) offers next.
View Discussion GuideThe Common Rule
The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction by Justin Whitmel Earley is a book about the quiet, daily practices that shape who we are becoming — often without our awareness. Earley's central argument is simple but arresting: habits form us more than we form them. We are not the autonomous, self-directed people we imagine ourselves to be. Instead, we are creatures of routine, and those routines — scrolling our phones in bed, eating lunch alone at our desks, filling every silence with noise — are quietly forming us in the image of a distracted, anxious, and isolated culture rather than in the image of Christ. Earley's answer is not a self-help program but a "rule of life" — a structured set of daily and weekly habits drawn from the ancient tradition of Christian community life — that gently reorients our loves toward God, neighbor, and truth.
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