Backward Mutters

  • On Dante’s Purgatorio

    “Press him [the one pontificating Dante without knowing the whole], rather, for an intelligent opinion of the Ship of Souls and Peter’s Gate; on Buonconte, Sapia, and Arnaut Daniel; on the Prayer of the Proud, the theology of Free Judgement, Dante’s three Dreams, the Sacred Forest, and te symbolism of…

  • On Dante’s Purgatorio

    “Press him [the one pontificating Dante without knowing the whole], rather, for an intelligent opinion of the Ship of Souls and Peter’s Gate; on Buonconte, Sapia, and Arnaut Daniel; on the Prayer of the Proud, the theology of Free Judgement, Dante’s three Dreams, the Sacred Forest, and te symbolism of…

  • Print Your Organ

    Dr. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Here is a talk he presented on the work that is being done at Wake Forest.http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf (HT. Journalnow)Print Your Organ was originally published on Grace Presbyterian Church

  • Print Your Organ

    Dr. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Here is a talk he presented on the work that is being done at Wake Forest.http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf (HT. Journalnow)

  • On Lent

    You may have let Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday pass by unnoticed, but Wednesday marked a new season in the church calendar: Lent. The season itself is meant to commemorate Jesus’ fast in the Wilderness after his baptism and before the beginning of his public ministry when, as you recall,…