John Clark has hoped for a sign from God, and 'known' that he shouldn't expect one. Until it actually happens... Perhaps his perceptions were wrong before.

Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian explores the importance - and joy - of introducing friends and family to new things, to increase wisdom and happiness.

by John Clark | Both men had something to say about the subject of humility, and it was not what I might have expected.

by John Clark | 'The Screwtape Letters' provides an apologetic for homeschooling, and how homeschooling is a powerful response to many of these demonic tactics...

by John Clark | Because we sometimes consider the relationship between holiness and happiness to be contradictory, we condition ourselves to think that holiness is something that happens afterward...

by Malia Lewis | When you have a chronic illness, you don’t always know what will set it off. I am constantly discovering...

By John and Athanasius Clark After he had taken his last college exam of the year, my son Athan (Athanasius) mentioned to me that he wanted to create a summer ...

by Malia Lewis | When I began to homeschool, my oldest was in fourth grade, so I figured there wouldn’t be many challenges right away.

This Easter season, many new Catholics will be entering the church. It wasn’t very long ago that I took that same leap; so, when my husband and I were asked ...

by Kevin Clark | In 'Mere Christianity', C. S. Lewis presented a sort of "baseline" Christianity to get across the most important points without broaching the contentious issues.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | According to the worldly wise, the end justifies the means. If one achieves his ambitions, he need not be scrupulous or squeamish for doing what most people do—even if they are dishonest.

by Mitchell Kalpakgian | In the “Preface” to The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis explains the nature of moral error in the modern world as an endless progression on the wrong road-- the assumption that all roads sooner or later lead to the same destination.

In C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, Uncle Screwtape, the master devil, counsels his junior apprentice, Wormwood, to use tried and true techniques to seduce souls into sin. One tactic he highly recommends is the strategy that perverts man’s natural love of change:

My father, an accomplished carpenter, always seemed to be building “one more bookcase” to meet the literary demands of his wife. For all the things that our large Catholic family did not have, we had a treasury of books. My mother’s consummate genius in homeschooling pedagogy reached its zenith with a simple rule for her children: you can stay up as late as you want as long as you are reading.