Backward Mutters

  • Free Music

    PageCXVI is doing some good work on worship and making traditional hymn tunes more accessible. You can download their cd at the following link. I heartily recommend it. Here.

  • MSNBC Chicago Church Keeps on Giving

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  • In the News

    Seems to be a week of commentary on religion. Here are some interesting — though not necessarily agreed with articles which have come out this week in the news. Time Magazine’s “Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now” is here. Christian Science Monitor‘s commentary on the upcoming Evangelical collapse is…

  • "How long, O Lord, must I call for help?"

    Next week I’ll begin a series of sermons on Habakkuk in preparation for Resurrection Sunday. The Season of Lent, the forty days prior to Easter beginning with Ash Wednesday, is a season of repentance and contemplation. Habakkuk himself is caught in the crucible between the shalom that should be and…

  • Juxtaposition

    Working through my Google reader feeds this morning were two articles together: “Slate wants to see your photographs of the economic crisis” and “What’s the greenest form of birth control?” One could go so many ways with this. Perhaps looking at pictures of economic crisis would be the greenest form…