Backward Mutters

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  • Bread of Heaven

    I’ve often wondered if a commentary on the Bible could be done in poetry. I’ve attempted several times as a means to prepare to preach a passage. But I don’t have the focus to see it through. Maybe someday. Any language work, however, (translation or paraphrase) has the benefit of…

  • Divers and Sundry

    Help for HaitiA family friend, Dick Furman, is a surgeon in Western North Carolina. He traveled to Haiti following the earthquake to provide medical aid to those in need. Flying home on the plane, I think back over what was the most horrific time I have ever experienced in my…

  • Malachandra or Pandora?

    Watched Avatar in 3D this weekend. Enough has been said about the movie: its agenda, the screenplay, and special effects, and so I’ll forgo all that. I have however, been turning a concept around in my head concerning the view of space, humanity, and extra-planetary exploration in the sci-fi movie…

  • Favorite Paragraphs

    Here are a couple of my all-time favorite paragraphs. They’re from Booth Tarkington’s book Penrod–a story of a young, precocious boy named the same. “The serious poetry of all languages has omitted the little brother; and yet he is one the great trials of love–the immemorial burden of courtship. Tragedy…

  • The Sun

    Over at the Big Picture, you can find a collection of great NASA photos of the Sun. The Sun is the fourth of the planetary spheres and whose qualities are imagined in C.S. Lewis’ The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader” which will be released as a movie in December 2010.…