Eric Scheske

But animals don't have rational souls, so they can't speak, so what are you channeling? And if you're channeling barks and meows, then . . . ah, nevermind. Link. [http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=49496&paper=62&cat=104] Excerpt: > Barb Mallon,

Interesting article in NYT Magazine this morning. It's an excerpt from Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson. Johnson claims that TV today is making us smarter because its programs make us think. Link. [http:

The BBC broadcasted a Quaker religious service this morning. The BBC broadcasts a different religious meeting every week, so what's the big deal? Quaker services are silent: > A Quaker meeting involves gathering in a room and sitting silently for an hour. There are no hymns, no sermons,

We'll take our friends where we can find them: Atheist and Agnostic Pro-Life League Homepage Link. [http://www.godlessprolifers.org/home.html] Excerpt: > I'm James Matthew (Matt) Wallace, aka The Compleat Heretic. I'm both a Secular Humanist atheist and a pro-life

Obsession with longevity plows forward: > An American expert on longevity believes menstruation may play a part in why women are almost six times as likely to live to 100 than men. > In an attempt to test his theory, Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study, donates

We never thought we'd say this, but it looks like it's time to stop reading Andrew Sullivan. Besides his public weeping at Benedict XVI's election, he is now implying that it is the Catholic Church's goal, with Rove and the Republicans, to

A few excerpts from Weigel's new book about the plight of Christianity in Europe: > European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences for European public life and European culture.

David Scott has written a nice and concise rebuttal of all the criticisms about Benedict XVI. Link. [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/165/story_16573_1.html] Excerpts: > He has never said that non-Catholics can't find God or reach salvation. Indeed, he has written that the

The NYT on-line feature piece this morning is about Benedict XVI's turn to the right in the 1960s. LINK. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/international/worldspecial2/24ratzinger.html?hp&ex=1114401600&en=163fc9d7909d07de&ei=5094&partner=homepage] Overall, it's

"Only a quarter of condoms made in India are used for sex, most of the others are used to make saris, toys and bathroom slippers, a newspaper reported Saturday." Link. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=757&e=10&