Backward Mutters

Category: Christ and Culture

  • Vampires and Vitality

    “Vampire stories and the Real Presence”, James Rogers Rather than the resurrected Lord who willingly offers his own sacrificed body and blood to give humans eternal life, Vampires are resurrected lords who sacrifice unwilling humans to take their blood for eternal life for themselves. (HT: Gene Veith)

  • "Jesus Christ himself proposed a still more frightening question…"

    “Yet there is a sense in which a focus on today’s obedience makes a long view possible: it does not yield a map, but it does yield a confidence that he who has called us is faithful, and will conduct the whole Church to her journey’s end. About a dozen…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The sovereign Stick up Artist

    A quote sent from a friend… “The evangelical church, or at least a good slice of it, is nervous, twitchy, and touchy about consumer desire, ready to change in a nanosecond at the slightest hint that tastes and interests have changed. Why? Because consumer appetite reigns. And consumer appetite and…