Schroeder’s Corner

When Church Misses The Point

So it seems that in Minnesota a church is organizing a general strike against I.C.E.  That article contains a list of participating businesses that is, to my mind, pathetically short.  For such a strike to be truly effective this list would have…

Media Desire And The News

Good guys versus bad guys – that’s a story – especially when the good guys win even with the odds overwhelmingly against them.  But the stories we get anymore are not so structured.  Our good guys are flawed (think drunken, fat Thor in the the…

Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot…Khamenei

Twelve thousand killed…12,000 Iranians killed by Iranian forces.  The scenes out of that country are horrific. (Warning, warning, warning)  Look, I know the other guys I mentioned in the headlines killed by the millions and this number is…

Our Myths Matter – The Hugh Hewitt Show

Before his death, I had a sporadic, long-standing debate with friend of the show, and literature professor, David Allen White about comic books.  I had heard David lecture on the great historical epics and argued that comic books sat in the same…

When You (Try) To Ignore God

I read a fascinating article yesterday about Gen Z and money.  It paints a picture of hopelessness, describing Gen Z’ers as “doom spenders,” and uses other unhappy words like “disillusionomics,”  “economic nihilism” and “money…

The Last Step – The Hugh Hewitt Show

The host’s interview of the President a couple of days ago was great.  (video…transcript)  The interview opened with Iran.  Much has happened in that repressive nation since and it puts the President’s statements in that interview on the line.…