Not to be a whiner, but there have been parts of this Advent which have felt like Lent in our house.  Rather than cheerfully preparing for a beloved guest, I ...

by Lorraine Espenhain | In this holy and penitential season of Advent, the court of Heaven is summoning you to stand up, step out, and dare to become one of them!

by John Clark | No Christmas season is complete without a family viewing of 'It's a Wonderful Life', but homeschooling dads can get more out of it than you thought...

Christmas is upon us again! Here are five favorite, seasonal recipes submitted by our Featured Families, traditions in their homes. Thank you for being a part of our Christmas issue, ...

The "12 Days of Christmas" gives us a chance to ponder aspects of our Catholic Faith inspired by the gifts mentioned.

by Dave Armstrong | I emerged from Hezekiah's Tunnel in my swimsuit and rubber sandals (the water is almost three feet deep in some places), and met the rest of our party sitting by the side of the Pool.

It could be said, without exaggeration, that the family is the engine of the world and of history.

by Christine Smitha | It isn’t easy to keep the Christmas spirit alive, especially after Christmas, when everyone else seems to have forgotten that it ever was Christmas.

by Mary Ellen Barrett | Christmas week can be a very stressful one for us homeschool moms, maybe even more so because...

by Emily Molitor | Growing up in a large family, this time of waiting meant baking cookies, reading books, and creating crafts.

As I finish out my blog posts of 2014, let me just say thanks to all of you who have read and contributed to the success of this blog. I ...

This famous short story that often appears in Christmas anthologies perfectly captures the Christian ideal of the joy of giving and the virtue of poverty of spirit. A young husband ...

by Dr. Mary Kay Clark | With all the hectic activity of December—preparing for Christmas parties, buying gifts, cleaning the house—it’s easy to forget that we should mainly be preparing our hearts

by Lorraine Espenhain | If our motives for working give value to our labors for God, how can we be sure that those labors are done for love of God and not to promote and glorify self?

by John Clark | Pope Francis challenged me to see the joy in the virtue of poverty. For whatever reason, I got a glimpse of it, and it looked wondrous.

by Dr Mary Kay Clark | As we homeschooling families approach Christmas, it is not easy to keep the children attentive to their studies.

by Dave Armstrong | Golgotha. It's the epicenter of Christianity: our “holy of holies”; indeed, the spiritual center of the entire universe...

by Bob Wiesner | The Soviet system gave the world more holy martyrdoms in just the 20th century than died in all the previous history of Christianity.

by Mary Ellen Barrett | I wanted a beautiful home for Advent, but instead got sheetrock, spackle, large men with tool belts and very little heat.

by Lorraine Espenhain | Spending five or six hours in a kitchen preparing food is just not my idea of a good time.