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Eric Scheske

The Shamanic Catholic

All right, we're assuming actor Jack White wanted the priest and the bride wanted the Shaman priest. Why the priest blessed a shamanic wedding, we don't know. > The [wedding] service was conducted by a shaman priest on a canoe in the Amazon basin. It was

Arrested for Animal Cruelty?

> Sam Brown, 21, had staggered out of a bar in the early hours and came face-to-face with two mounted officers. > Sam, who is studying English at Oxford University, approached one of the cops and asked: “How do you feel about your horse being gay?” > He

Hooked on Phonics (and Common Sense)

Some different fare: Britain's whole-word reading programs that were imposed by the government have been a disaster. Bring back phonics, says this editorial. Link to Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/04/dl0401.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/06/04/

Left Coast Uses Scarlet Letter?

We like it, we like it a lot: > People who solicit prostitutes in Oakland, California, could find their faces plastered on billboards under a new shaming program that one civil rights group calls bad public policy. > The city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco started

One Born Every Minute

Prosperity theology fails yet again: > A man posing as a government employee approached a business owner and said he needed to take soil samples from the property. > The next day, the suspect returned with a metal detector claiming he found gold or silver in the soil. > The

Book Review of Sacred and Secular

Here's a fairly interesting review by Os Guiness of Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. It re-hashes a lot of the stuff we hear from other sources, but it's a decent overview. Link [http://wwics.si.edu/index.

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We've been asked by other sites and bloggers about adding links to their sites. We have, accordingly, come up with this policy: We are not picky about the links we provide under the Bloghorn. If you update your blog at least once a week and the content is

The Weekend Eudemon

It will be a light Weekend Eudemon today. Eric Scheske's wife and girls are abandoning him this morning, leaving for Detroit while he stays home with the four boys, including 22-month-old terror, Max. When we named the kid after Maximilian Kolbe, we hoped he would imitate

Female God Incarnate

> A new edition of the Gospels of the Bible for the first time shows Christ as a woman, named Judith Christ of Nazareth, and God as female. In all other respects, the classic texts of the Gospels remain unchanged. > The publisher, LBI Institute, has released this new Bible

Ban Bible from U.K. Hospitals?

> Hospital bosses in Britain were meeting on Friday to discuss a controversial move to ban Bibles from patients' bedsides after they were decreed not only insensitive to other religions but also a health risk. . . > . . . The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, which runs the three main hospitals