Ten Lenten Family Traditions
One of the greatest gifts I've received is living according to a liturgical calendar. Moving from season to season, from Advent to...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Feb 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Case for an Aristocracy
I recently attended a bioethics seminar on gene enhancement. One participant was making an argument against because it could potentially...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
Goal Setting as a Family
Every January, usually around the 1st of the year, we sit down as a family, review our goals from last year and adjust them for the new...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Dec 25, 2019
- 4 min
How to Celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas
We are all familiar with the song about the 12 Days of Christmas and what her true love gave her. But, did you know that the Medievals...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Nov 23, 2019
- 2 min
Advent Traditions that Bind a Family Together
Traditions bind a family together. Here is how the Biffert family celebrates Advent to prepare for the great celebration of Christmas!
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Nov 2, 2019
- 4 min
Head to the Graveyard
Gaining indulgences with your children during the octave of All Souls Day.
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Kenton E. Biffert
- May 13, 2019
- 3 min
Boys need Hardship and Responsibility
Boys need responsibility and hardship in their journey to manhood.
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Dec 19, 2018
- 3 min
The Family Dinner and the Wedding Feast
We know that having dinner together as a family is something important to do. Search the internet and you'll find all kinds of reasons...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Sep 28, 2018
- 3 min
How Should a Man Respond when his Wife Alphabetizes the Spices?
It took me by surprise the other day when my wife asked me to note the spice area and that it was alphabetized and that this should help...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Aug 5, 2018
- 2 min
The Danger of Training Children to Think
This post is a short anecdote about how logic can be used to unearth fallacies, but can also be used to manipulate.
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Jun 3, 2018
- 6 min
A Call to the Remnant
Our western culture has been in flames. Beauty has been replaced with the drab. Our boys don’t read. Our girls, barely. Grown men walk d
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Jan 27, 2018
- 2 min
Teaching our Children to Work
Last week we had freezing rain and then snow and then rain. The result was a snow-day for the schools, people working from home, and...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Oct 11, 2017
- 3 min
Dynamite or Prayer?
This afternoon I was reminded of an old Christian rock song from the '80's called I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good. The song was a fa
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Kenton E. Biffert
- May 23, 2017
- 4 min
Why Bother Getting Married?
Why bother getting married? The question was posed over a beer and was considered. If marriage is simply about sex, then why bother? One...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Apr 24, 2017
- 4 min
The Independent (?) Woman
Is the Independent woman really independent? This post looks at what it means to be independent of the home and independent outside the hom
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