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Eric Scheske

Celebrate: The Nightmare is Ending

The nightmare will be replaced with something else, but I'll take my pop culture condolence wherever I can find it: > Television industry insiders in America are quietly acknowledging this weekend that a trend long predicted but never quite proven may at last be coming true: the appetite

American Girlcott

A boycott looms. American Girl is dismayed that their innocent support of a pro-abortion/pro-lesbian group could be twisted to serve political purposes. I know where they're coming from. I was dismayed to see people construe my contributions to the KKK as some sort of racist

Nazis and Gang Bangers Don't Mix

Nazis gather to protest against inner-city gangs. What could possibly go wrong? > A crowd protesting a white supremacists' march Saturday turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, and setting fire to a neighborhood bar, authorities said. . . > At least two dozen members

Another Atheist Shows His Idiocy

> To millions The Chronicles of Narnia are a childhood tale of wonder and triumph now made into a film that could inspire millions of children to read. To others, including the celebrated fantasy author Philip Pullman, they are stories of racism and thinly veiled religious propaganda that will corrupt

The Russian Icon

By the time Russia embraced Christianity through the Eastern Orthodox Church, the theology was already highly developed. Russia took the highly developed theology and enthusiastically embraced its conclusions without necessarily absorbing its rationale. The result was a somewhat unorthodox Russian Orthodox Church. They produced some wild saints and some unique

Something for Sunday Morning

> The soul that looks up towards God, and conceives that good desire for His eternal beauty, constantly experiences an ever new yearning for that which lies ahead, and her desire is never given its full satisfaction. Hence she never ceases to stretch herself forth to those things that are

Emilie Rose School Days

> It was the first day of school, so some students were understandably nervous. But then again, they were not taking just any course, but one run by a Vatican university to teach aspiring demonologists and exorcists. > "There is no doubt that the devil is intervening more in

Bamboo

It would appear that you can make anything from bamboo. Link [http://www.bambus.de/infos/1000/indexx.php].

The Quiet Room

People are puzzled when they see my home study: a room about twice the size of a professional's office, with thousands of books, two upholstered chairs, lights situated at various spots, two desks, a computer, and reasonably-neat piles of notes, manuscripts, and correspondence. If they're

The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce

The forthcoming issue of The American Conservative has a favorable review of Elizabeth Marquardt's Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307237109/thedailyeudem-20]. There's no link available, but here's a bullet summary of