Eric Scheske

Miscellany A lot of people brought gifts to Marie's birthday party. I was impressed by the assortment of unusual, small gifts that she received. There were plenty of wine bottles (my standard present) and gift certificates, which are always cool, but also lottery tickets (she won $10), decorative

Miscellaneous Rambling The saddest story of the week: "The police officer who died after taking the place of a hostage in France was a practising Catholic who had 'experienced a genuine conversion' around 2008." Link [http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/police-officer-

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to Holy Week 2018. It hasn't been a great Lent for me, so I'm trying to double down this week. I'm reading nothing but religious works, with focus on Romano Guardini's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano_Guardini] The

Miscellaneous Rambling I pass along a lot of historical, political, and religious podcast recommendations, but I'm not sure I've ever recommended a fun podcast. So here goes: The Conspirators [http://www.theconspiratorspodcast.com/]. The podcaster, Nate Hale (an entirely fictional identity), does a great job of

BYCU A TDE reader alerted me to this story in the Wall Street Journal that interests me on many levels: Drinkers Go Crazy for Gin, Investors for Tonic [https://www.wsj.com/articles/drinkers-go-crazy-for-gin-investors-for-tonic-1521199401] . Regular TDE readers know I've been

YouTube is planning a "Karate Kid" series that follows the characters 34 years later. The show is entitled "Ralph Macchio's Mortgage Is Due." Conan

Lecture Notes Picture non-Christian Europe in 850: The Scandinavian countries and their Vikings, ravaging everything from Ireland to Russia. Saracen Muslims pushing into southern Italy, even sacking Rome. Magyars invading central Europe before finally conquering and settling in what we know as Hungary. Poland, much of the Slavic countries

Miscellaneous Rambling Theology on Tap session tonight. The topic: His Ontological Suffering. It's a meditation on Guardini's passion meditation in The Lord. In particular, it revolves around this passage in Guardini's work and why His suffering had to be this way: > No one

Miscellany Re: Yesterday's post. “The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” GKC Intriguing essay by Patrick J. Deneen at First Things: "The Ignoble Lie [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-ignoble-lie]." I

The Wing Ding The kids and I did it. We threw the mother of controlled wing dings Saturday night for Marie's 50th birthday. The kicker: It was a surprise party. And she was shell-shocked surprised. Friends and family came from Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago; her local friends