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Over the Rainbow
BY: Margie Haack
Something died in the guts of our house. As it ripened and decayed, Denis searched for it in among the cobwebs hanging behind the furnace and over the walls of the ancient stone cistern of the basement.
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What The Bleep Do I Know?
BY: Margie Haack
“Are you from the Unitarian Church?” A small, dark-haired woman drinking a soy latte and holding a copy of Enlightenment magazine smiled encouragingly at me. Others seated around the table at Dunn Bros Coffee shop stared at me and waited.
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Church centered, not church occupied
BY: Denis Haack
I agree with Cyprian (200/210-258) who said that an individual “cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother.”
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Tsunami Crash
BY: Margie Haack
My husband may have had cause to find a concubine. Of course, I would have ignored the cause and made him my ticket to martyrdom followed by sainthood.
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Handel's Messiah
BY: Denis Haack
To be too busy for good music is to be too busy.
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Revolution in the Air: The songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973
Still On the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2006 (Clinton Heylin, 2009/10)
BY: Denis Haack
It is the poets who have always provided a way to sort the significant from the meaningless, a way to see the glimmers of light hidden in the shadows of our dark world.
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Reading the Word: Calvin on offense
BY: Denis Haack
Loving weaker sisters and brothers must be such a priority that we willingly forgo our freedom for their sake. This does not mean, however, that we are therefore at the mercy of all who might claim “offense.”
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Loving People: Discernment Exercise
BY: Denis Haack
In The Mark of the Christian, Francis Schaeffer insisted that love was to be the essential, primary characteristic of Christians, actually setting us apart from the rest of humanity.
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Calvin and Culture: Exploring a Worldview (David W. Hall and Marvin Padgett, 2010)
BY: Denis Haack
The gospel has in fact motivated God's people to care for widows and orphans, to build hospitals, to paint and sculpt, to oppose tyranny, to take God's Word to the ends of the world.
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Away From Her (Sarah Polley, 2006)
BY: Denis Haack
It is one thing to be alone and lost; to be within sight of home and safety and not have memory to recognize it is to be lost without hope of finding our way.
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Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
- Dorothy Parker
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This year spring came late to southern Minnesota, and when it arrived it brought chilly temperatures, cloudy skies, and lots of rain. Whether it is because of these factors or something entirely different I don't know, but 2013 has turned out to be The Year of the Morel. If you have never sampled these delicious mushrooms, you are in for a treat. We've found them on more than one walk in the woods, and so feel we have had a special opportunity to experience one of the wonders of creation.
Morels, goldfinches, a well crafted film, an iris bursting into bloom, a chance for an unhurried conversation in a safe place--such glimmers of hope help us flourish as persons in this broken world. These are the sort of things we are concerned with at Ransom. Thanks for visiting.
Denis & Margie Haack
Anita Gorder
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