Now all of us value stability and security - but at what cost?

One of the greatest gifts I've received is living according to a liturgical calendar. Moving from season to season, from Advent to Chris...

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 y...

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 medi...

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 va...

Gaining indulgences with your children during the octave of All Souls Day.

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.

Boys need responsibility and hardship in their journey to manhood.

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 ...

There is something very masculine about chopping wood. I recently purchased a home with two wood burning stoves. This winter will be ou...

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

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 dis...

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 ...

Why do we desire so much good things and yet our passions are never satiated? We must go to the Author of good things.

Why did God create mosquitoes? I personally despise the blood-sucking fiends. And yet ... and yet it was due to these ferocious crazed ...

Why bother getting married? The question was posed over a beer and was considered. If marriage is simply about sex, then why bother? One...

Teaching children to pray is hard. Here are a few strategies we have found that work.

Our sons need to see their fathers cherishing their Mother and their sisters. Here is one strategy of how to do this.

"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 st...

Immediate engagement strategies are good, but poor engagement can be symptomatic of a deeper issue. It is this that I hope to address in...