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Eric Scheske

Thursday

Bullets The Seven Sisters [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant#Denominations]? It rings a bell, but I'm not sure I've heard of the mainline Protestant churches referred to that way. The Sisters are: American Baptists, Disciples of Christ, Congregationalists / United Church of Christ, Episcopalians, Lutherans,

Wednesday

From the Notebooks What can a man like DH Lawrence tell us about the afterlife? He may have intuited quite a bit, even if he didn't understand it himself. In his excellent little book, Studies in Classic American Literature, Lawrence wrote: > The central law of all organic

Tuesday

Time Management. Or, Increasing Self-Awareness I see friends take long lunches, run personal errands during work hours, drop by their houses in the middle of the afternoon, chat with colleagues, call on the phone and talk for 30 minutes with no apparent qualms. It got me thinking: How much

Monday

Graduation Day Alex graduated from high school yesterday. I'm not sure I've ever felt such mellow sadness. I wasn't crying or anything like that. But I was sad, no doubt about it, and if I could turn the clock back and give him another

Something for Sunday Morning

"If you can't praise, say nothing." St. Gregory Nyssa

BYCU

I'm not a big fan of Wikihow, but once in awhile, they run something interesting. This piece caught my eye earlier this week: How to Cook Deep Fried Beer [http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Deep-Fried-Beer]. I'd never even heard of such a thing, but

Thursday

Stocks, Food, and Diet The stock market takes its biggest one-day lost since last August. There's fear back in the air. People see more and more signs of a double dip. Link [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576359003490165720.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&] . I don'

Wednesday

Catholic Blogging Wednesday Summer comes in four stages: Memorial Day, the first day of June, kids out of school, June 20th. Welcome to Stage Two. * * * * * * * Talk about a priest shortage: "Whispers in the Loggia" says there are only 275 Catholic clerics for all five of the military branches.

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly The quiet Catholic convert and scholar Gerard Casey reviews the case for conservative libertarians. Required reading for everyone who clings to the worn-out idea that libertarians are godless antinomians. . . . more>> [http://lewrockwell.com/orig10/casey-g2.1.1.html] Gadgets zapping your

Monday

Happy Memorial Day. I expect a dearth of traffic today, consistent with past holiday experiences. I expect the traffic to be especially light, since the country is drying out for the first time in a week. We're expecting mostly sunny skies and our first 90-degree day. I&