Backward Mutters

Category: Studies

  • 150th Anniversary of "The Late Unpleasantness"

    Regimental Colors of the 61st Ohio Volunteers   In recognition of the start of the greatest trial the United States has faced, I want to acknowledge my ancestors who served their country in this war. My great-great-great grandfather Samuel Leet Fite who served in Company C of the 66th Indiana Infantry. My…

  • 150th Anniversary of "The Late Unpleasantness"

    Regimental Colors of the 61st Ohio Volunteers   In recognition of the start of the greatest trial the United States has faced, I want to acknowledge my ancestors who served their country in this war. My great-great-great grandfather Samuel Leet Fite who served in Company C of the 66th Indiana Infantry. My…

  • Counterfeit Gods: Money Changes Everything

    Greediness was often categorized by the Medieval philosophers and theologians as either covetousness (avaritia) or gluttony (gula). As an excessive love, greed is either the excessive love of pleasure/comfort or the excessive love of power/welfare. Keller brings out the two-sidedness of greed when shares the illustration about the husband and…

  • 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…