A brilliant text by St Maximus the Confessor could be an antidote to fragmentation and the contorted relationality  induced by digital media in family life and society: ‘Do not use ideas wrongly so that you may not be forced to also wrongly use things. For if a person does not initially sin in mind, he / she would not either sin in deed [. . .] Sin is the wrong use of ideas, which is followed by the wrong use of things’.