Backward Mutters

  • A Shrinking Condundrum

    An Associated Press article which came out this week entitled,  Methodist survey aims to stop membership decline NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s the conundrum Protestant denominations with declining memberships and shrinking budgets are desperate to solve: How to stem the decades-long losses and attract new worshippers.The United Methodist Church, the third…

  • Kyrie by Bifrost Arts

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  • Foolish Consistencies: Ecclesiastes 8:2-9

    Here are some of my thoughts from this week’s sermon, The Wise Heart. Considering the fools folly, here is what is true about the fool: The fool never vows. He does not bind himself to others in promises, but rather says, “I shall do what I want to do on…

  • Mormon Politics and American Nationalism=Another Gospel

    Russell Moore on “The Gospel and Glenn Beck” via his blog, Moore to the Point. “Too often, and for too long, American “Christianity” has been a political agenda in search of a gospel useful enough to accommodate it. There is a liberation theology of the Left, and there is also…

  • Is No Fault a Fault?

    Beverly Willett writs an article on New York’s recent adoption of no fault divorce at The Daily Beast. Last Sunday, I read that Governor Paterson had signed a bill making New York the fiftieth and final state in the country to enact no-fault divorce. I was heartsick. We would never…