{"product_id":"third-ways","title":"Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies—And Why They Disappeared","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe American economy was built on the bedrock of family farms and family businesses, but the Industrial revolution replaced that with factories and businesses. Although it seems like history has moved on, there were men who said that the family could be the center of production again.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;We tend to think being \\\u0026quot;stressed out\\\u0026quot; is a normal state of affairs, and that contentment means sitting back and just bottling things up. For the Christian, however, contentment is something we must apply, work at, and make our own in every circumstance, because anxiety and frustration are not neutral behaviors.\\nIt is certainly easier to go with our natural impulses when times are very hard or even just \\\u0026quot;annoying,\\\u0026quot; but contentment is an important part of our Christian life. Even the apostle Paul had to \\\u0026quot;learn\\\u0026quot; contentment. So we shouldn't wonder why we're still in spiritual kindergarten—repeating the same lessons over and over again—if we haven't given ourselves to study contentment. Thankfully, every test God gives on contentment is open book (even the pop quizzes!). In Learning Contentment, Nancy Wilson looks to the Bible and Puritans like Jeremiah Burroughs, Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Watson, and Charles Spurgeon to help us develop the practical, spiritual strength and the perspective that comes from contentment's deep satisfaction with the will of God. This encouraging little book follows after Nancy Wilson's Virtuous: A Study for Ladies of Every Age. Learning Contentment includes concise explanations, application questions and assignments that will involve and challenge everyone, and lots of biblical wisdom for individuals and groups.\u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6fa8dc;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/I-148.pdf?v=1650305378\" title=\"The Household and the War for the Cosmos Look Inside the Book\" style=\"color: #6fa8dc; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff9900;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorian and activist Allan C. Carlson has shown that the decline of the productive household has been part of the reason for the decline of marriages and the family in modern America. The modern capitalist economy is eager to put women in the workforce and to put kids in day-care, and communism would like nothing better than to get rid of the family altogether. However, big business and big government were not the only two options in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThird Ways\u003c\/em\u003e tells many never-before-told stories about economists, politicians, and activists who wanted the productive family to be the center of the modern economy. If you are dismayed by the rise of divorce, fatherlessness, consumerism, and statism, then this book will show you how many men tried to imagine a different, better world. Carlson tells the stories of heroes like Chesterton and Belloc, the misunderstood Swedish socialist housewives, the peasant revolutionairies in Eastern Europe, and many more in this historical tour-de-force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world has not always been this opposed to the family. Read this book to find out how it could be different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThird Ways\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative and persuasive book.... Dr. Carlson is profoundly successful in making his case. Perhaps most of all, this book helps expand political imagination, and that is the most fundamental issue facing American politics now. We certainly do need a “Third Way,” and we can only hope this book serves as a signpost toward that road.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Steven Wedgeworth,\u003cem\u003e The Calvinist International\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The breadth of Carlson’s book is impressive.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eHumanum Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllan C. Carlson\u003c\/strong\u003e a scholar and professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. He is the president of the Howard Center, a director of the Family in America Studies Center, the International Secretary of the World Congress of Families and editor of the Family in America newsletter. He is also former president of the Rockford Institute and the author of many books including \u003cem\u003eThe American Way\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/I-139.pdf?3851\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eAUTHOR: Allan C. Carlson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ePAGE COUNT: 336 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eSIZE: 5.5x8.5\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eISBN-10: 1952410932\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eISBN-13: 9781952410932\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ePUB. DATE: May 3, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allan C. 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