S4E1 - The Sin You’re Committing While Being Productive: The Quiet Sin of Sloth

S4E1 - The Sin You’re Committing While Being Productive: The Quiet Sin of Sloth

From Intentional Fatherhood by Brook Mosser, Justin Whitmel Earley

September 8, 2026 · 1h 19m

About this episode

The episode discusses the sin of sloth and its implications for fathers in the context of productivity and spiritual engagement.

This week, we're opening a new season built around the seven deadly sins: sloth, anger, envy, lust, gluttony, greed, and pride. We’re spending this season walking through each one in depth, not to shame you, but because you can't fight what you won't name. This episode starts with sloth, what we think is the defining sin of our generation. Sloth isn't what most of us picture. Thomas Aquinas called it “sorrow about spiritual good,” a sadness that sets in when the right thing is also the hard thing. That means you can be productive at work all week and still be spiritually asleep. It's a sin of omission, not commission: the gap between the life you're living and the life you were made for. And you don't close that gap on willpower alone. You can only do it with the help of the Holy Spirit. We trace where this actually shows up in a father's life: the hard conversation you keep putting off, the disengagement that looks like exhaustion but is really avoidance. It's the same instinct Adam had in the garden. God asks where he is, and Adam says, "I heard you and I was afraid, so I hid." Sloth hides. What it's chasing is comfort, when it actually needs rest. Here's the hope. The opposite…

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