Backward Mutters

  • 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…

  • The Grand Design ain’t so grand, and as for design?

    A review over at The Economist has this to say of Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s new book, The Grand Design. Particularly curious is the assertion of Hawking and Mlodinow that “philosophy is dead”. There is a potted history of physics, which is adequate as far as it goes, though…

  • Suffering in Fath

    A friend shared this with me today, and in it I am reminded of all those who are my heroes in perseverance and hope. Thank you, friends. http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

  • Confessio: Rolling Downhill

    If I ever write a book, I think I’d like to write a confession — something in the vein of Augustine or Patrick. Not a defense mind you, but an admission. If I do write that Confession, this piece I wrote several years back will be in it. I’m posting…

  • 10 Things I always seem to see while counseling couples

    I always seem to end up sharing these ideas with couples I am counseling whether they have been married a long time and have gotten into a difficult spot or they are an engaged couple preparing for marriage. These are simple propositions without qualification. Though they are not laws, they…