released 3/27/2020

While many families with young children struggle to adjust to a new state of being constantly (and hectically) home-bound, households with one or two occupants may be perplexed about how to endure a protracted season of solitude. In his 2007 book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, Christopher Lane examined the prejudice in favor of gregariousness which led to the medicalizing of reticence and reserve. In this Friday Feature, an excerpt from the Journal interview with Lane (Volume 89) is followed by a reading from theologian Romano Guardini about the necessity of contemplative recollection in sustaining a centered interiority capable of attending to the face of God.

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