The Servile State
Now all of us value stability and security - but at what cost?
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Feb 27, 2020
- 4 min
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
- 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 4, 2019
- 2 min
When life hits you hard ...
There are times when life hits you hard. Everything seems to go bad within a short amount of time. All of a sudden you have a $3000...
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Kenton E. B iffert
- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
Do you know your limits?
This past All Souls Day, I participated in a tradition wherein a group of pilgrims would bike around the lake and stop and pray at the...
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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
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
Rite of Passage for Girls
This post tells how we set up a six month Rite of Passage for my daughter as she exited childhood and began her journey as an adult.
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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
- Jan 9, 2019
- 2 min
Homosexuality Emasculates
The complimentarity between a man and a woman is a beautiful thing. In many ways do they accent each other, augment each other and push...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Sep 18, 2018
- 2 min
Boys Need to Chop Wood
There is something very masculine about chopping wood. I recently purchased a home with two wood burning stoves. This winter will be...
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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
- Sep 8, 2017
- 3 min
If you CAN see your breath - it's a great time to tent with your family
Two weeks ago, we packed up and headed out of Dodge to camp at Pog Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park (approximately 3 1/2 hours north of...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Aug 15, 2017
- 2 min
Confessions of Restless Father
Why do we desire so much good things and yet our passions are never satiated? We must go to the Author of good things.
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Jun 26, 2017
- 5 min
A Tale of Perseverance
Why did God create mosquitoes? I personally despise the blood-sucking fiends. And yet ... and yet it was due to these ferocious crazed...
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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
- Mar 15, 2017
- 4 min
Teaching Children to Pray
Teaching children to pray is hard. Here are a few strategies we have found that work.
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Feb 17, 2017
- 2 min
Modelling to our sons how to Cherish our Women.
Our sons need to see their fathers cherishing their Mother and their sisters. Here is one strategy of how to do this.
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Feb 6, 2017
- 3 min
Boys Can be Readers: strategies to get boys reading.
"Readers are Leaders." I was told this by a teacher when I was young and it stuck with me my whole life. I was one of those boys who...
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Kenton E. Biffert
- Jan 26, 2017
- 5 min
Engaging Boys in Education II: Long-term Strategies.
Immediate engagement strategies are good, but poor engagement can be symptomatic of a deeper issue. It is this that I hope to address in...
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