Backward Mutters

Carl Truman (via Justin Taylor) on the new hate mail here. The Christian Telegraph (via Gene Edward Veith) notifies us GE’s intention to use embryonic stem-cells in research here.

This week we will be talking about Gluttony also called Greed. Both of these words seem mutually exclusive and are different sins seeking different objects or ends: gluttony is food and greed is money. This was not the Medieval mindset. Gluttony according to Dorothy Sayers is, “self-indulgence and the wanton…

I’ve spent some of the spring and summer reading C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image and Michael Ward’s, Planet Narnia. In Planet Narnia, Ward posits the argument (barely refutable) that each of the books of the Narniad are devoted to one of the seven Medieval heavenly spheres: Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus,…

I am so grateful for the creative musicians we have at GPC. It has been wonderful to watch them grow and develop–not to mention be blessed by their talents. Here are a couple of GPC-ers you should check out. Zoo (Michael Zeoli) and Scott Plybon’s band is Joe Next Door.…

Interesting article over at NPR on Pixar’s story lines and the absence of female leading characters here. Possibly more interesting are the comments. On the one hand, to set out to write for someone else sounds as if it could derail what has been so charming about Pixar’s movies–that they…