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Friday

It seems like the Catholic Church has a lot of patron saints of alcohol. Here's a partial list I assembled from random Internet surfing: St. Augustine (brewers), St. Arnold of Soissons (hop-pickers and Belgian brewers), St. Dorothea of Caesarea (brewers), St. Amand (brewers, bartenders, vine growers, and

Gilson

"The human mind feels shy before a reality of which it can form no proper concept." Etienne Gilson, God and Philosophy. Too many Christians, of course, know no such shyness. Bible and this morning's newspaper in hand, they have all the facts and knowledge they need

GK

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

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It's been a rough week for Anthony Weiner. His campaign manager in the race for mayor just quit because of Weiner's newest scandal. And it's tough finding a replacement because every time he emails someone, they're like, “I'm not opening

Voegelin and Pressure

Voegelin with a Nock Kicker History, said Voegelin, is "the perpetual task to regain the order under God from the pressure of mundane existence." That's the science of history? Heck, it's the science of everyday life. Just as Plato noted that society is man

Monday

I have a few contemporary things to discuss, so today's Eudemon will revert to the traditional TDE style. * * * * * * * Received in the mail: The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic by Fr. Robert Wild. I'm looking forward to reading it. From the back cover: Franz Kafka said

Friday

BYCU If you haven't spent a lot of time with Zmirak's Bad Catholic series, you're missing out. The material is flat-out brilliant. Content, prose, humor: it's all there. I expect to draw a lot of BYCU material from Zmirak, including this

William James

I've always meant to read more William James or, failing more by James, more about James (“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.” Disraeli). Early on, I read his Varieties of Religious Experience [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James#Philosophy_of_religion]

GKC

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

De Lubac and Dostoyevsky

If you're intrigued by Dostoyevsky but can't bring yourself to read any of his lengthy fiction, get a copy of Henri de Lubac's The Drama of Atheist Humanism. It ranks in my top 10 books of all time. The reader will be rewarded with