Backward Mutters

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  • Why I Can’t Find Good Friends

    “Therapeutic theology raises expectations, and it raises self-regard. It isn’t surprising that people taught to be constantly enamored with their own godlike qualities would have difficulty forging relationships with ordinary human beings.” Ross Douthat Here’s Mr. Douthat’s talk regarding his book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. The talk…

  • More Love to Thee

    I discovered Elizabeth Prentiss a couple of years ago. I acquired a copy of Stepping Heavenward after my grandmother died. Grandma Maude said it was her favorite book. Reading a fictional, girl’s diary was not something I was initially drawn to, but after picking up the book and reading it,…

  • The Coming of the King

    Lewis’ good friend, J.R.R. Tokein as well understood the jovial king. “And then wonder took him, and a great joy; and he cast his sword up in the sunlight and sang as he caught it. And all eyes followed his gaze, and behold! upon the foremost ship a great standard…

  • A Dickens of an Evening

    My wife wrote the following poem after our family visited the NC Shakespeare Festival’s A Christmas Carol. She also drew the sketch to the right. She blogs and posts here work on her own blog drawn2life. You can see more of her work here. A Dickens Eve A gentle waterfall…

  • Are We in a Grave Story?

    A series of events conspired which led me to reflect on how we view the meaning of our circumstances. Firstly, my eldest had to do a report on Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing. In turn we watched the Kenneth Branagh screen adaptation. As she and I discussed the play and…