Backward Mutters

As a way to prepare for Easter and make the most of an opportunity to enjoy some community, several are gathering weekly to read through C.S. Lewis’, The Great Divorce. The plan is to read three chapters each week.  For week one we are reading the Preface and chapters 1…

“Yet last summer I was mired in despair. The cause was the failure of the expectation I had over my return home—a happily-ever-after hope that grace would forever bridge the fault lines between my family and me that had driven me to leave as a young man. It had not…

You can listen to npr’s TED Radio Hour on the Seven Deadly Sins here. Sadly, the vices of which the ‘talkers’ speak, are no more than peccadilloes if they are in fact, correctly understood in this piece. This shallow understanding is especially clear in Nick Hanauer’s talk on Greed or…

J.K. Rowling knows her Dante. In Sorcerer’s Stone, she has a three headed dog guarding the descent into the dungeon where the Sorcerer’s stone is kept. I can imagine that the filling of unlimited wealth and unending life is the answer to the gluttons devouring. In Dante’s 3rd Circle the…