Eric Scheske

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Orthodoxy and the Modern Creed I've been in circles when young, growing families are discussed. The conversation goes something like this: Person One: “E is having another child.” Person Two: “Another! What is that, five?” Person One: “Yeah; five kids, can you imagine?” Person Two: “I can'

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Jammed

Not much this morning. I hadn't gotten much sleep this week. I crashed last night and overslept for probably the first time in ten years. Just a few quick things: Michigan readers: Check out old penny postcards from your county [http://usgwarchives.org/mi/ppcs-mi.html]. Pretty neat

Tuesday Miscellany

A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but didn't. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse [http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html]. > We are on the verge ”“ within 10 years ”“ of a

Wednesday Bullets

Dour results for Obamaconomics already? President Obama has repeatedly said the $787 billion stimulus plan passed by Congress last month would save or create at least 3.5 million jobs. But today House Democrats heard a sharply downsized prediction: 1 million fewer jobs [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=

Best of BYCU Pictures

It's right up there with Jerry Rubin's "Be In": Philadelphia's second annual Philly Beer Week gets underway on Friday [http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2009-03-05-philly-beer-festival_N.htm?csp=34] . They're dubbing it the "biggest beer fest in the

Lenten Blogging

I've seen this story twice in the past 24 hours: Thou Shalt Not Text During Lent [http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2009/03/thou-shalt-not-text-during-lent.html] . (Other Link [http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-04-texting-Lent_N.htm?csp=34].) I'm guessing a bishop or two has suggested that

Tuesday Miscellany

Tumultuous times, the end times, the odd times, the grab a bottle and chill out by yourself times. Random headlines from today's Drudge [http://www.drudgereport.com/]: Obama pushes community 'health centers'...SUIT SEEKS TO FORCE GOVERNMENT TO EXTEND BENEFITS FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES...Fertility clinic offers

The Post-Christian Age?

Have we really entered the Post-Christian Age . . . or do few Christians recognize Ash Wednesday that, for all practical purposes, it doesn't exist anymore, except as a weird-looking symbol on some people's foreheads? I have five children that are old enough to participate in organized activities. Four

Ash Wednesday Miscellany

When you fast, do not put on gloomy faces, like the hypocrites do. "Today God asks us also for a rather special mortification which we offer up cheerfully . . ." (Francis Fernandez). Those are hard words, knowing I'll be cringing by 8:45 a.m. with hunger stabs.