Eric Scheske

"Christians should be the salt, not the syrup, of the earth." Georges Bernanos "What matters is not what ideas do to men but what men do to their ideas; how and when they choose them, and how and why they accommodate them to their own wishes, interests,

You'll have to excuse this salacious slice of commentary. The subject matter requires ribaldry. There's a rock-n-roll morning show in my little corner of the world that is hosted by two male DJs and a female sidekick. The DJs have been in the same

"When the motorcar was new, it exercised the typical mechanical pressure of explosion and separation of function. It broke up family life, or so it seemed, in the 1920s. It separated work and domicile, as never before. It exploded each city into a dozen suburbs, and then extended many

Fyodor Dosoyevsky, Orestes Brownson's junior by eighteen years, would write on a theme similar to Brownson's concerns about humanitarian democracy. Just as Brownson worried that North American progressives would sacrifice men on the altar of the abstractions known as “Man” and “The Rights of Man,” Dostoyevsky

"The glory to which man is called is that he should grow more godlike by growing ever more human." Dumitru Staniloae "Christ is looking at us through the eyes of all those whom we meet. Once we recognize his universal presence, all our acts of practical service

The World of Two Consenting Adults and Do as Thou Wilt I've been in circles when young, growing families are discussed. The conversation goes something like this: Person One: “E is having another child.” Person Two: “Another! What is that, five?” Person One: “Yeah; five kids, can you

Daily negligence deadens the soul. Gregory of Sinai

What men want to be is often even more important than what they 'are.' John Lukacs If only more of us, including this writer, truly wanted to be saints.

California "is a renowned haven for faddists, individualists and nuts of every kind. . . There's always some screwball out here who's got some new cult or ism working and a band of happy unrealistic acolytes around him who are now convinced that they've discovered

Exalt leisure and contemplation over money-making and success. s/ G.K. Chesterton, The Agrarians, Richard Weaver, Legions of Monks, The Inklings, Russell Kirk, Josef Pieper, Christopher Dawson, and The Wise Men.