Eric Scheske

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Weaver

Richard Weaver, professor at the University of Chicago fifty years ago, wrote of “the Great Stereopticon,” a term roughly equivalent to what many call “mass media.” It is the technology that reaches out to everyone in western culture and tells us “the time to laugh and the time to cry.

"It!"

In today's idiom, it is common to use the word "it" when describing the sexual act or related things. It reminds me of beatnik hero in Jack Kerouac's On the Road named Rollo Greb, a “wild, ecstatic” man who “didn't give a

Sunday

You can trace almost every Protestant sect today back to five branches: 1. Lutheran 2. Reform 3. Radical 4. Anglican 5. Pentecostal The first three were in existence within a few years after 1517 and had already started splintering among themselves a few years after that. Anglican in less than

Thursday

H.I.F. A rumor on Twitter says Mister Rogers, a Presbyterian minister, took last rites from a monk. This article by Mike Aquilina [https://angelusnews.com/news/mike-aquilina/the-catholics-in-mister-rogers-neighborhood] offers details about Mister Rogers' extensive ties to Catholicism, but doesn't say he converted on his death

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Friday

I'm posting this simply because I really like the picture. It's pretty: > This is what happens when you don't renew @DavidWondrich [https://twitter.com/DavidWondrich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]'s contract: @esquire [https://twitter.com/esquire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] has the

Thursday

From the Notebooks While returning to Europe with Sigmund Freud from a conference in the United States in 1909, Carl Jung had the most-famous nocturnal dream of the twentieth century. He dreamed he was in a medieval house. He went down into a vaulted Gothic room, then into the house&

Wednesday

NEW PODCAST EPISODE RELEASED: Detachment. The first rule of the spiritual life. [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/7/14/episode-38-detachment]

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> A quiet day at the mall. Walking around, unnoticed, until someone yells, “Hey, it's Pat Sajak!” Then pandemonium: handshakes, pictures, autographs. I'm almost sorry I yelled. > — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) July 15, 2019 [https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1150866959212433410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

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> On July 16th, 1212, at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, King Alfonso VIII “the Noble” of Castile led an outnumbered Catholic coalition to victory against the Almohad Caliphate–marking a turning point in the Reconquista. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/cdvqci/on_july_16th_1212_