Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling There are few things better than a warm fall evening. I didn't want yesterday to end and looked for things to do outside: play tennis with kids, harvest some Jester lettuce seeds, say the rosary while I strolled around my yard. But I finally bid the

> Today in unfortunate placement. @iowahawkblog [https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/RGGGinVJVv [https://t.co/RGGGinVJVv] > — David Deeble (@DavidDeeble) October 20, 2017 [https://twitter.com/DavidDeeble/status/921373167725285377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use Those Theology on Tap sessions take it out of me. I was wiped out all day and didn't get a chance to take a nap. I finally reached the end of the day at 8:00 last night, free-poured myself a gin and

Theology on Tap went alright. The biggest problem was the venue: The restaurant was filled, resulting in a lot of background noise. The lecture itself was a bit more dense than the last one (I had 40 minutes to pack in 75 years of history, instead of 30 minutes to

Tonight's Handout: Nominalism William of Occam (Early 1300s): All is the way it is because God says so. Common sense be damned b/c it detracts from God's glory. Does God ordain something because it's good for humans? Or is something good because God

Miscellaneous Rambling The second lecture in my 7-part Theology on Tap session is tomorrow night: "The Reformation: Causes and Early Years." It basically goes from 1350 to 1525. The November lecture will from 1525 to 1650. Our parish administrator puts the over-under attendance at 30. We&

Miscellaneous Rambling I guess Saturday Night Live tooks swipes at Harvey Weinstein: "The real burn came from Colin Jost and Michael Che at the Weekend Update desk. After reporting that Weinstein was headed to a rehab center, Jost fired back: 'He doesn't need sex rehab. He

> Social media is a great opportunity to love one's neighbor....and enemy. I think the way we respond even to anonymous trolls matters. > — Fr. Jonathan Morris (@fatherjonathan) October 11, 2017 [https://twitter.com/fatherjonathan/status/918144160212946944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

When Frank Chodorov condemned the Communist hunts of the 1950s, someone asked him, "Well, what would you do about Communists in high government offices?" Chodorov responded, "Get rid of the high government offices." (Rough quotes.)

Nock sighting: > On Albert Jay Nock and the Russian Roots of a Gentleman Anarchist (essay by Glenn Davis) https://t.co/vUti7m4hwH > — ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) October 14, 2017 [https://twitter.com/imaginativecons/status/918997328127766528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] It's mostly about Nock's relationship to Russian