Backward Mutters

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  • Divers and Sundry

    Here a few items of note that I think are worthy of a look see: A couple of bloggers have picked up on the Wall Street Journal‘s article on the decline of Sunday School attendance here. As we pick back up in the fall, I wonder what our take will…

  • Seven Deadly Sins: Greed

    When one hears the word “greed”, one usually jumps to the love of money. Greed can be a love of money, but it is much more complex than that–even Michael Douglas’ character in the 1987 movie Wall Street knows that. Greed is an excessive love for one’s own welfare–it is…

  • Check It Out

    Carl Truman (via Justin Taylor) on the new hate mail here. The Christian Telegraph (via Gene Edward Veith) notifies us GE’s intention to use embryonic stem-cells in research here.

  • Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony

    This week we will be talking about Gluttony also called Greed. Both of these words seem mutually exclusive and are different sins seeking different objects or ends: gluttony is food and greed is money. This was not the Medieval mindset. Gluttony according to Dorothy Sayers is, “self-indulgence and the wanton…

  • Pagan Relief

    I’ve spent some of the spring and summer reading C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image and Michael Ward’s, Planet Narnia. In Planet Narnia, Ward posits the argument (barely refutable) that each of the books of the Narniad are devoted to one of the seven Medieval heavenly spheres: Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus,…