Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling Ancient Coptic manuscript of the Book of Acts can now be read, thanks to x-ray imagery. Link [https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/meg-bucher/new-technology-enables-reading-of-ancient-egyptian-manuscript-of-book-of-acts.html] . Irony? Pope Francis has issued an apostolic constitution with regard

Miscellaneous Rambling What a beautiful January weekend. I played basketball and did a little gardening yesterday in shorts. A sweatshirt, yes, but shorts. I read yesterday that, when you reach age 100 in Barbados, you get a stamp in your honor [https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7tln3x/when_

When I was a kid, I could tell you everything about the tennis world: Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Becker, Lendl. These days, I follow it a bit but not much. Regardless, it's great to see the Rog back on top. > Roger Federer wins Australian Open for 20th career

Thadurday Ramblings Good "Unregistered [http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/]" podcast last week. Russell interviewed Christopher Ryan, one of the oldest hippies. It's safe to say Ryan is a leftist, but one of the intellectually-honest kind of goodwill. That, quite frankly, is the genius of Russell&

A man broke a Guinness world record by walking barefoot on a 120-foot path of loose Legos. This beats the old record set by every dad getting up to use the bathroom at night.

Holy Beer Font, Batman! Wow, I gotta have it: 2018 Drinking with the Monks Calendar [https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/calendars/2018-drinking-with-the-monks.html] . (Amazon link [http://amzn.to/2EbdGSH]). I haven't been this excited about a calendar since . . . Okay, I've never

My notes from a Theology on Tap lecture 476 to Charlemagne 476: It wasn't the fall of the Roman Empire. The Senate was still in session until 600 AD or so. If you had asked the average citizen in, say, Lyon France, what he was, he would'

Books and Holes Response to a friend who wanted to know what I'm currently reading: "What am I reading? It's scattershot. The Virgin Eye is my mainstay right now and has been for months. It's kind of a book you pray with, so

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, I made a big decision. I'm going to attend a Cursillo retreat in February. I have attended three Catholic retreats in my life, and all were a colossal waste of time. Two of them were so bad, I was (no joke) embarrassed to be there.

Miscellaneous Rambling Wow, the winter blues. If you're suffering from them, do a white man thing and think about the farmers markets that you can attend this spring. And why is it a white man thing? Because a couple of professors have declared farmers markets to be white