Backward Mutters

  • Quicksilver Conversing

    The MercurialThe photo above was taken by the Messenger Probe which concluded its last flyby of Mercury in preparation for a permanent orbit which you can read about here.

  • 2009 Bridge to Bridge Ride Report

    Bridge to Bridge was epic. What else can you say? 8 hours on the bike, rain and fog? Epic. Der Jan and Big Red lined up with the 10 o’clockers, and we held our own on the modified route. It seems the first 45 miles are somewhat negotiable. I have…

  • Seven Deadly Redux, Part 2

    Richard Mouw at Fuller quotes Herman Bavink in The Certainty of Faith in which Bavink writes, [W]e must remind ourselves that the Catholic righteousness by good works is vastly preferable to a protestant righteousness by good doctrine. At least righteousness by good works benefits one’s neighbor, whereas righteousness by good…

  • Seven Deadly Redux

    I keep thinking about the Seven Deadly Sins, and I continue to be helped by Dorothy Sayer’s thoughts. She writes in her essay, “The Other Six Deadly Sins” the following: “The Church then, officially recognizes six other capital or basic sins–seven altogether. Of these, three may be roughly called the…

  • Don’t Stop Believin’

    Fox has put the muscle of social media behind the premiere of Glee‘s first episode which airs Wednesday, September 9. After watching the pilot, I was surprised at the enduring questions and/or propositions that were posited in that pilot about the nature of things: the good, the true, and the…