Backward Mutters

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…

In preparation for the next sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins, I’ve been reading Dorothy Sayers, “Introduction” to Dante’s Purgatory. Here are few quotes worth noting: “If a man is once convinced of his own guilt and that he is sentenced by a just tribunal, all punishment of whatever…

We’ll spend the next couple of weeks looking at what the Church Father’s and Medieval theologians referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins. There are differing lists in differing generations. I will focus on the following: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. The Scriptures contain lists of sins…

When riding with others I begin to wax on community: how it works best…how it breaks down and fails. Being a cyclist helps because you can see it all in one ride. The efficiency of a peleton is inescapable. A rider who ‘takes a flyer’ off the front only succeeds…