Backward Mutters

  • High-tech Hearts

    John Muether, both a professor and friend at RTS in Orlando has this to say in an article posted on Ligonier’s website about cyber-friends and communities. Contrary to the inconvenience and inefficiency of genuine community, virtual communities have the advantage of allowing one to leave as easily as one joined.…

  • Merry Meeting

    I just learned that Tolkein and Lewis first met on May 11, 1926 my birthday–albeit not 1926. Alan Jacobs in his book on Lewis, The Narnian, writes of Lewis’ first impression of Tolkein in this way, “…the two young dons talked for the first time. In his diary entry…Lewis contrives…

  • "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"

    Here’s the text: What’s he that wishes so?    My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;    If we are mark’d to die, we are enow    To do our country loss; and if to live,    The fewer men, the greater share of honour.    God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man…

  • Blessed are the Peacemakers

    This article will be posted in Thursday’s Kernersville News under the Words to Live By Column. Recently, I’ve been attending a weekly seminar on conflict resolution and mediation or as the Bible would call it, peacemaking. I know you’re thinking, “Why would a pastor need training on that? The church…

  • Imaginative Redemption

    There’s been a good bit or hubbub in the news in response to Al Mohler’s blog post, “Yahoo, Yoga and Your’s Truly“ Our local FOX news channel ran this piece last week, and the NBC affiliate WXII has this Associated Press piece posted on their website. John Mark Reynolds at…