Writing Resume
Eric Scheske



Positions Held

Editor of Gilbert! The Magazine of G.K. Chesterton, May 2002 - July 2003. Contributing Editor, December 2000 - April 2002.

Contributing Editor of Godspy (www.godspy.com), December 2003-Present

Contributor, Catholic Men's Quarterly, June 2006 - Present.


Speeches

"G.K. Chesterton: The Forgotten Giant" Donovon Lecture Series, December 2001. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

"Middle Earth's Hidden Catholicism," Donovon Lecture Series, December 2002, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

"G.K. Chesterton and the Art of Drinking," 22nd Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference, June 2003, St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Lawyers in Love: Deus Caritas Est and the Practice of Law," Lansing Guild of Catholic Lawyers, June 2006, Lansing, Michigan.


Published Articles and Short Stories

Beyond Bree:"Aragorn's Soul," December 2002, 4.

Busted Halo (www.bustedhalo.com): "This Bud's for You," April 26, 2004; Same Sex Marriage and the Ailing State of Our Families," March 9, 2004; "Clash of the Titans," January 30, 2004; "Super Hyper Bowl," January 28, 2004; "The Lord of Heaven and Middle Earth," December 5, 2003; "The Kicker," November 24, 2003; "Sexy Halloween", October 31, 2003.

The Catholic Answer: "God's Power: A Meditation on Understanding Our Existence," March/April 2001, 55-58.

Catholic Exchange: Weekly columnist, February 2005 – Present. "Tax Those Who Tax the System," "Tsunami Theologians." Both published in 2005. "St. Augustine: Ancient Feast Day of a Timely Saint," "Transplanting Reality," "Fair Suffering," "The Blood of Freedom," "Jack the Abstractor," KO'd by K-8," "The Gay Battleground," "Decadence and Love: Rave On," "The Latest Outrage." All published in 2004. "To Control or Not Control," "Tradition in the Public Square," "Classic Book of Virtue: The Philokalia," "Goodfellas: When Words Lose Their Meaning," "Evening Terrors," "Herodias v. Mary," All published in 2002.

Catholic Men's Quarterly: "Calling All Nerds: 20 Books to Make You a Smart Catholic," Winter/2008; "Beatniks and Madison Avenue," Spring/Summer 2007; "Three Degrees of the Sporting Life," Fall/Winter 2006, 24; "From Gold to Wool to God," Spring/Summer 2006, 41-43.

The Catholic Faith: "Edifying and Entertaining Conversions," November/December 2000, 62-63, 66; "Stepping Across the Line," November/December 2000, 54-55; "Saint Gregory of Nyssa," September 2000, 35-37; "Saint Gregory of Nazianzus," July/August 2000, 39-41; "Saint Basil the Great," May 2000, 37-39; "Revenge of the Dead," November/December 1999, 34-37; "St. Macarius the Great," September/October 1999, 40-42; "That Saintly Ambition," May/June 1999, 25-27.

Columbia: "18 Ways to Holiness," June 2004, 30.

The Detroit Free Press: "Faith Only Dangerous Because It Matters," November 15, 2001, A19.

The Detroit News: "Military Tribunals," November 25, 2001, A17.

Envoy: "Does It Count?" Issue 4.4, 20-25.

Gilbert Magazine: "A Walled-in Life," June 2004, 11; Media MO: Misleading Operations, June 2004, 30; "The Skunks," April/May 2004, 11; "Blog This!" April/May 2004, 25;"Longneck Dreamin'," March 2004, 13; "The American Hitler," March 2004, 25; "The Paper," January/February 2004, 13; "The Third Way to Distributism," January/February 2004, 25; "Contraception and Twinkling Buttocks," October/November 2003, 28; "GKC in a Shot Glass," September 2003, 28; "The Loafer," September 2003, 41; "The Johnny Questions," August 2003, 22; "It's a Guy Thing," August 2003, 25; "Longnecks and Cigarettes," June/July 2003, 22; "Wild Darrell and the Haunted House," April/May 2003, 22; "Drunk and Driven," March 2003, 26; "Geese Hunting," March 2003, 36, "Prospecting and Pithecanthropus," January/February 2003, 26; "South Park," January/February 2003, 28-29; "Protestants in the Catholic Camp," January/February 2003, 30; "Getting Away From It All," December 2002, 15; "Chestertonian Perspectives from an Egghead," December 2002, 30; "Life's Too Short," October/November 2002, 17; "A Little Book of Big Wisdom," October/November 2002, 31; "The Tough Judge," September 2002, 15; "The Banshee's New Wail," July/August 2002, 15; "But Seriously Folks," July/August 2002, 28-29; "Gothic Nihilism," May 2002, 16; "Getting Ahead," April/May 2002, 16; "Community Versus Government," March 2002, 30; "Tolkien and the Vilest Deed," March 2002, 26; "Two Very Large Men," December 2001, 31; "The Johnny Cash Rock Party," December 2001, 12; "The Not-So-Conservative Mind," October/November 2001, 32; "Ersatz Wedding," October/November 2001, 19; "Two Hope Chains," September 2001, 14; "Days of Pride and Roses," September 2001, 11; "Cheating the Magic," July/August 2001, 15; "Tennessee Flat-Top Box," April/May 2001. 14; "Chesterton's Children," January/February 2001, 32; "The Problem of Hogs," December 2000, 16-17; "My Other Lap-Top," September 2000, 17; "The Hymns of Jimmy Buffet," December 1999, 14; "The More the Merrier," September 1999, 28-29; "Talk is Not Cheap," July/August 1999, 25; "The Hammock Connection," July/August 1999, 28; "The Joy of Drinking," June 1999, 16.

Godspy: "Ben Franklin and the Mouse: Multi-Tasking in America," October 2004.

Lay Witness: "Stop at Nothing," March 2000, 34-35.

Lew Rockwell: "Everything Bad is Good for You," a Review, May 31, 2005.

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture: "Orestes Brownson: His Life, His Catholicism," Spring 2004, 137-164.

Michigan Bar Journal: "The House Trust," January 2001, 66-67.

Michigan Municipal Review: "Top 10 Legal Things that make a Municipality Different from a Business," May/June 2004, 20-21.

New Covenant: "The Backpack," October 2001, 17-18; "Crunch Time," December 2000, 29-30; "Which Child Do I Love Most?" July 2000, 26; "Whistle in the Soul," April 2000, 28-29.

National Catholic Register: "St. Joseph's Blog Army," June 15, 2008; "Muslim Boy Finds Healing in Church," June 15, 2008; "The Quill and the Mouse," April 26, 2008; "It's a Political Jungle in There," March 23, 2008; "Charity and the Internet," February 27, 2008; "Take It Easy," January 27, 2008; "Carol of the Blogs," December 16, 2007; "Cyber Archetypes," November 11, 2007; "What's Brewing In the Blogosphere?," October 14, 2007; "Some Things Are Better Left U-blogged," September 16, 2007; "Blessed on the Enlightened Ignorant," August 19, 2007; "An Integrated Apologetics," August 5, 2007; "Hometown Blog Makes Good," July 15, 2007; "Spirit & Life," July 8, 2007; "Fun and Frivolity in the Blogosphere," June 10, 2007; "If Coolness Counts, What's the Score?," May 13, 2008; "Control Your Thoughts Or They'll Control You," April 22, 2007; "We Have Risen Indeed," April 15, 2007; "Married. With Children. On the Web." April 8, 2007; "Real Men Don't Write Blogs. Do They?" March 11, 2007; "What's Playing at St. Blog's Cinema?" February 11, 2007; "Wired for Merriment," January 14, 2007; "Pssst. Did You Hear About ... ?" December 3, 2006; "For Love of The Written Word," November 5, 2006; "What's Red and White and Tasted All Over?" October 8, 2006; "Collared Commentary," September 10, 2006; "The Carnies Cometh," August 6, 2006; "Young, Catholic and Connected," July 2, 2006, B3; "Blogs Through the Ages," June 4, 2006, B3; "They're Playing Our Blog," April 23, 2006, B3; "Stay-at-Home Bloggers," March 26, 2006, B2; "Signs of Life in the Blogosphere," February 26, 2006; “Contemplating Catholic Bloggers,” January 22, 2006, 14; “A Nation of Commentators,” December 18, 2005, 14; “All the World’s a Blogosphere, November 27, 2005, 14; "Blessed Be The Middle Lower Class," July 3, 2005, 9; "Kick Me, Shove Me, Pull Out My Hair. Just Let Me Shop," November 27, 2004, 9; "An Allegorical Bug’s Life: The Need for Catholic Schools," January 25, 2004, 9; "Why It Is Necessary to Pledge Allegiance to the Flag," October 7, 2001, 9.

New Pantagruel: "The Eighth Capital Sin," Vol. II, Issue 2, Spring 2005.

Our Sunday Visitor: “In Focus: Hell, Purgatory & Heaven,” January 15, 2006, 9-12; "Why Misers and Spendthrifts Make Poor Stewards," September 19, 2004, 13; "Bring on 'The Brady Bunch,'" September 14, 2003, 23; "Bring Back the Hair Shirt," August 3, 2003, 19; "Return of the Anti-Zeitgeist Idealist?" April 28, 2002, 14; "A Peep at Adult Behavior," November 5, 2000, 23; "Who You Callin' a Hypocrite?" October 13, 2002, 19.

Route 66 Magazine: "The Last Word," Winter 2000-2001, 62.

Tech Central Station: "Cooling Down with the Cell Phone," January 26, 2007.

Touchstone: "The Conservative Convert," June 2003, 41-48; "Lighten Up!" May 2002, 39-40; "Is There No Privacy," July/August 2001, 13-14; "The Humble Artist," December 2000, 31-33; "Clear Philosophy," November 2000, 35-36; "Three American Sophomores," October 2000, 28-34; "Evil & Computer Diversions," June 2000, 14-16; "Dark Shadows of Turning: On Evil in Legend and Life," March/April 1999, 11-14.

The Vocabula Review: "Grammar, Art and the F-Word," February 2004; "Read Free!" October 2003.


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