Question·
What does it mean to raise children in an age that confuses freedom with rootlessness? Notes for a long essay.
Notes, essays and tools from real life.
A place to think, raise and live with hope.
Faith. Science. Formation. Fatherhood. Body. Home.
I'm Julio Padilla and I share what I study, practice and learn about faith, science, fatherhood, formation and everyday life.
My desire is to help you think better, raise with wisdom and live with hope.
Manifesto
An integrated life
You can be raising a child, caring for a tired body, forming students, reading science, serving in the church and asking yourself how to remain faithful. This site is born from that intersection: the place where real life forces us to bring together what we often keep apart.
Thinking well can also be a way of loving better.
Integrated life
Faith, science, body, home and formation are not separate areas.
Embodied learning
I share what I study, teach, practice and learn in real life.
Tools with a soul
When they help us care better, teach better and live with more hope.
Reading
Start here
Four entry points based on what brought you here.
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If you want to understand the heart of this site
An integrated life
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If you came for faith and science
Thinking scientifically without losing the soul
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If you came for fatherhood
Dad in the Lab
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If you came for body and habits
Caring for the body without asking it for salvation
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There's more to read. 7 essays in total, organized by area.
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What I'm reading
Three books open on the table. Each with notes, underlines and questions.
Not a list of recommendations. It's a reading notebook while I try to integrate science, faith, formation and daily life.
Enter the libraryNotebook
From the notebook
Notes in process. Readings, questions and practices that aren't essays yet.
Reading·
Rereading Polkinghorne. The difference between explaining and understanding still seems to me to be at the heart of the faith-science dialogue.
The Discovery·
Sleeping well is also a doctrine of creation. A tired body distorts theology faster than bad arguments.
Living projects
Living labs
Spaces where ideas become practices, questions and tools.
Activo
Papá en Laboratorio
Paternidad, crianza, rutinas familiares y microexperimentos para criar con ternura, evidencia y esperanza.
ExplorarActivo
Fe y pensamiento
Ensayos sobre teología, ciencia, cultura, cuerpo, sufrimiento y esperanza cristiana.
Leer ensayosActivo
Formación cristiana
Recursos para enseñar, aprender y acompañar procesos de madurez bíblica con claridad.
Ver formaciónEn curso
Cuerpo y mayordomía
Notas sobre salud, entrenamiento, metabolismo, sueño, límites físicos y vida cristiana encarnada.
Ver notasEn diseño
Sistemas de vida
Rutinas, calendarios y pequeños sistemas para ordenar el hogar, la vocación y la comunidad.
Ver sistemasTool
Where to start this week?
When everything matters, it's easy not to know what to attend to first. The Integrated Life Compass helps you look at six areas of your life and choose a small experiment of faithfulness for the next seven days.
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