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Easter Celebrations It's been a pretty wild Easter so far. Five of Eric Scheske's seven children were up at 6:30 this morning, biting at the candy bit to search for their baskets. They came to Eric's study, where he contained them until he

More Easter "If it had ended [at the cross], however, the world may have been impressed by Jesus's goodness, but that's it. Someone who is good is not automatically worthy of one's faith or hope. The Resurrection, the real conclusion of Christ'

Easter When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld "him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a

Holy Saturday Satan didn't know he had swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa: "The Godhead hid under the covering of our human nature so

Do You Feel a Draft? We don't believe that the draft will return, but this lengthy essay (actually, a booklet–over 10,000 words) makes us wonder. If this type of thing interests you, it's worth browsing. LINK [http://www.counterpunch.org/reeves03192005.html]. Note: We

More Absinthe We are pursuing this absinthe matter further (see 3/25 "Friday's Brews You Can Use"). Per our request, Dale Ahlquist, Publisher of Gilbert Magazine and President of the American Chesterton Society, passed along seven passages from works of G.K. Chesterton that mention it.

Electronically Perverse, Yet Modest From News of the Weird: "Vivienne, an interactive companion accessible on powerful, 'third-generation' cellphones, was recently introduced by the Hong Kong company Artificial Life as a high-maintenance, video-image 'girlfriend' who goes on dates with you, kisses, speaks six languages, converses on

Stalinists and Satanists We read recently that Moscow has over 30 Satanist sects and about 2,000 Satanists. LINK [http://mosnews.com/news/2005/03/25/satanicmoscow.shtml]. While reading the article, we kept thinking it said "Stalinists." It wouldn't make much a difference, both being

The Weekend Eudemon Concentration Camp U.S.A. We did a little pilsner philosophizing last night about Bishop Bruskewitz's mass excommunication nine years ago. After drinking about it, we've concluded that we were a little too flippant in our observation that Bruskewitz's actions didn&

Million Dollar Schiavo Crushing piece in the Harvard Crimson today [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506716] about Terri Schiavo and Americans' disdain for people with disabilities. After Million Dollar Baby came out, we opined that "better dead than disabled" has stealthily become a part of