Backward Mutters

Month: May 2008

  • Only Becket was funny…

    Editorialist Charles Lane of The Washing Post comments on Aliza Shvarts’ senior art project at Yale in which she planned to induce repeated miscarriages through a bit of performance art. Lane notes,“Among her ‘conceptual goals,’ she wrote in the Yale Daily News, was ‘to assert that often, normative understandings of…

  • From whence this evil?

    Unde hoc malum? A great little Latin phrase for big pressing problem: from whence this evil? “Where does this wrongdoing come from? What is its wellspring, the source of its ongoing prevalence and power? The doctrine of original sin is, if nothing else, and intellectually serious attempt to answer such…

  • Pop Culture and Christianity

    “The new generation of Christians is likely to be a different kind of audience. Raised on iPods and downloadable music, they find it difficult truly to commit to the idea of a separate Christian pop culture. They might watch Jon Stewart or Pulp Fiction and also listen to the Christian…

  • 3 State 3 Mountain – 1 State and 1 Mountain, Part 1

    All dressed up and no place to go. Here are a small portion of the 2400 cyclists who descended on Chattanooga, TN to do the 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge hiding under the bleachers at Carter-Findley Stadium. The ride, scheduled to begin at 8 am was delayed 45 minutes because…