Backward Mutters

Category: Books

  • Voyage of the Dawn Treaderness

    In order to encourage the Christian community’s teachers, leaders, and pastors to engage and utilize the upcoming movie based on C.S. Lewis’ Voyage of he Dawn Treader, a group of Christian leaders has created narniafaith.com. There are a number of resources including study guides and sermon outlines. I am dwarvish…

  • Merry Meeting

    I just learned that Tolkein and Lewis first met on May 11, 1926 my birthday–albeit not 1926. Alan Jacobs in his book on Lewis, The Narnian, writes of Lewis’ first impression of Tolkein in this way, “…the two young dons talked for the first time. In his diary entry…Lewis contrives…

  • "What Sort of Tale"

    I began Ralph Woods’ The Gospel According to Tolkein today. Many of my friends took his class on fantasy literature while students at Wake Forest University. I too am a fan. Below is an excerpt from an article he wrote on Lord of the Rings called “Frodo’s Faith” which you can read…

  • GPC DGroup: Chosen by God, Chapter 1

    As we start Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul there are a number of things that we must consider at the onset. Firstly, we need our faith to be conformed by what is true and not by what we understand. As both Protestant and Reformed, the scriptures are the foundation…

  • Deep Church Discussion, Chapter 1

    In Chapter 1, Jim Belcher explains how this book is the consequence of a very personal quest as to a biblical ecclesiology. As he pursues this quest, he comes to realize that there seems to be a tension which pits two caricatures as two unbridgeable and divergent options: Emergent/Emerging OR…