Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use Neat blog post by a Cleveland-area priest: Coffee, Front Porches, and Church Whispers [http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/2017/06/coffee-front-porches-and-church-whispers.html] . It's not about drinking, but it's about the need for parishes to create community and

John Zmirak draws on my favorite Dostoyevsky book . . . and asks a question that has to be taken seriously by anyone who believes in the spiritual world: > Is Today's Far Left 'Possessed'? | The Stream https://t.co/HlWhbgVW8Y > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) June 21, 2017

The operation edges closer:

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the first day of summer. Okay, not really. Summer apparently starts at 12:24 tomorrow morning. But we're really close. Wow, finally, a sports franchise stands up to the LGBTQIXYZ whatever brown shirt community: St. Louis Cardinals Resist LGBTQ Outcry Over 'Christian Day.

Miscellaneous Rambling I sigh relief. I think the season of busy-ness is over. Although office life promises to stay ramped at difficult levels, the graduation season is over. Michael's graduation party went well, and I survived the hangover, even getting to confession the next afternoon to "

> "One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputation." > — Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 17, 2017 [https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/876123036575039488]

For well over a year, I've looked for The Lost Weekend [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Weekend_(film)] on my Roku, but I've never been able to find it. Then last Saturday night, I stumbled across it on TCM. I was pretty stoked. I

The Eastern Orthodox recognize the prophet Amos today. I don't know a lot about Amost, but I remembered Eric Voegelin spent some ink on him, so I grabbed his Israel and Revelation of the shelf. I didn't see a lot about Amos, but I was interested

Expecting a big harvest later this week. I think I've fallen in love with this stuff: