Backward Mutters

Category: Christ and Culture

  • The Grand Design ain’t so grand, and as for design?

    A review over at The Economist has this to say of Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s new book, The Grand Design. Particularly curious is the assertion of Hawking and Mlodinow that “philosophy is dead”. There is a potted history of physics, which is adequate as far as it goes, though…

  • "They love the sweetness of life"

    I’ve been thinking about the ethics of scientific animal research. I see the benefit humanity has derived from the cures and treatments which have been developed through animal research. Indeed, I personally have benefited from the cures and protocols developed through that research.On the other hand, I know that how…

  • Mormon Politics and American Nationalism=Another Gospel

    Russell Moore on “The Gospel and Glenn Beck” via his blog, Moore to the Point. “Too often, and for too long, American “Christianity” has been a political agenda in search of a gospel useful enough to accommodate it. There is a liberation theology of the Left, and there is also…

  • Is No Fault a Fault?

    Beverly Willett writs an article on New York’s recent adoption of no fault divorce at The Daily Beast. Last Sunday, I read that Governor Paterson had signed a bill making New York the fiftieth and final state in the country to enact no-fault divorce. I was heartsick. We would never…

  • American Teenage Mutant Christians

     Thanks Nathan G for pointing to this. ( via CNN) — If you’re the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a “mutant” form of Christianity, and you may be responsible. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls “moralistic therapeutic deism.”…