When homeschool fathers need inspiration, ask for St. Thomas More’s help, to be like him, “God’s good servant”, offering love and sacrifice for our family.
Read More »St. Rita of Cascia – Saint of the Impossible
Saint Rita of Cascia, born Margherita Lotti, was an Augustinian nun known as a peacemaker and patron saint of impossible cases, abused women, and parents.
Read More »Messenger of Divine Love – St. Gianna Molla’s Heroic Choice
Gianna Molla, wife, mother, physician; a heroic decision during her complicated pregnancy. “If you must decide between me and the child...Save the baby.”
Read More »Is Marriage in God’s Plan to Raise Saintly Children?
Mary Kay Clark uses teachings of the Catholic Church to illustrate how the sacrament of marriage fits in God's plan to educate and raise saintly children.
Read More »Summer Faculty Meetings – Time to Relax, Talk, and Reconnect
Mary Ellen Barrett says this is a perfect time of the year for some all-important faculty team-building activities. She's speaking of you and your spouse.
Read More »The Enduring Power of Parental Love
Kids might be embarrassed or slightly unnerved when they witness a show of parental affection, but they need to see it anyway. Ashlynn Smith explains why.
Read More »How To Be A Superman Dad In A Kryptonite World
A father is often seen as Superman to his child. As John Clark found, to live up to that, we must first discover what our Kryptonite is. And overcome it.
Read More »Simple Ways to Find the Missing Element in Your Life
Sometimes small changes yield great happiness. Dr. Kalpakgian considers what literary characters can teach about finding the missing element in our lives.
Read More »3 Keys to the Foundation of the Homeschooling Family
In educating our children, Dom Baker offers us three concrete things that homeschooling parents can do to truly be the foundation of our own families.
Read More »3 Ways Homeschool Husbands and Wives Can Stay Connected
Amy Pawlusiak shows us 3 ways that husbands and wives can accomplish much more when we support each other in our roles as parents of homeschooled children.
Read More »The Art of the Possible: Choosing the Best Way to Live
Prince Rasselas searches for the best way to live. When there are too many valid options, how does one decide? Dr. Kalpakgian provides the prince’s answer.
Read More »Got Grace? How Homeschooling is Saved by Sacramental Graces
Cindy Costello, homeschooling veteran of twenty years found the fruit of success not in her own strength, but rather through sacramental grace.
Read More »3 Fantastic Ways to Inspire Our Kids’ Vocation
How can we prepare children to embrace God’s plans for them? Inspired by Pope Francis, Gina Berrios shares practical suggestions to foster kids’ vocation.
Read More »Defying Convention: Elizabeth Bennet’s Hunt for a True & Happy Marriage
by Dr Mitchell Kalpakgian | A “proper match/marriage” meant a gain in a woman’s economic status and social respectability. She no longer had to feel financially dependent on her family or embarrassed by the stigma of old maid.
Read More »A Wedding Toast: Marriage, the Only Sacramentalized Relationship
This year, Lisa and I attended two weddings. Two of my nieces kicked off the Clark wedding cycle that—considering the gaggle of nieces and nephews—is likely to last for many ...
Read More »The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin: Why We Protect Innocence
by Dr. Mary Kay Clark | It was Anne’s and Joachim’s realization that she needed to be protected from the curiosity of others, that made them decide to take Mary to the private, protective...
Read More »Culture Matters in College! (Especially if You Hope to Find a Spouse)
There is an old joke that young women go to college in pursuit of the MRS degree. Of course, this is not entirely true. Women obviously have an interest in ...
Read More »The Bible vs. Contraception: “Be Fruitful and Multiply”
by Dave Armstrong | Some things are so obvious that we take them for granted. We don't feel that we need to “argue” them because we casually assume that everyone “knows they are true.” The old Frank Sinatra song comes to my mind: “Love and marriage: go together like a horse and carriage . . .”
Read More »Why The World Is In a Mess, And How to Fix It
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.
Read More »The Day You Couldn’t Stop Smiling
by Kevin Clark | When you first graduate from college, you attend many weddings. For the five years or so after college, several weddings seem to come every year—some weddings where you know the betrothed well and you are actually in the wedding party, and some where you merely witness the proceedings.
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