The Testing Point of Every Virtue

Welcome to Bright Hearth, a podcast devoted to recovering the lost arts of homemaking and the productive Christian household with Brian and Lexy Sauvé. In this episode, Brian and Lexy talk about why things must be made, understood, and cared for in light of their nature—and what this has to do with truth, goodness, and beauty in the Christian household.

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