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127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)
BY: Wesley Hill
According to this movie, it’s not that “Please help me” is more significant than “I love you.” Rather, “Please help me” is itself a form of “I love you.” The two cries belong together.
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300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)
BY: Denis Haack
Don’t all young adults dream of heroism? Of finding themselves at some point of destiny and responding with a courage they hoped they had within them, but could never be sure until such a moment?
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A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
The film is a powerful look at the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winning theorist who struggles with schizophrenia.
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A Beautiful Woman
BY: Denis Haack
The Hebrews pictured Wisdom and Folly as women (see, e.g., Proverbs 3-9), a metaphor sometimes assumed to be merely misogynist and so dismissed in an age that knows better.
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A Broken Banjo Bobbing
BY: Denis Haack
There’s something that I’m watching
Means a lot to me
It’s a broken banjo bobbing
On the dark infested sea
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A Deadly Misunderstanding (Mark Siljander, 2008)
BY: Matthew Hundley
Christians and non-Christians often find “bridges” into each others lives through aspects of the culture which they enjoy--films, books, music and literature. When a Christian is faced with developing a relationship with a Muslim we may first look for common cultural interests as well; in doing so, however, we miss the most evident “bridge” before us: Jesus Christ.
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A Faithful, Messy Purity
BY: Denis Haack
There is a difference between keeping ourselves pure, and keeping ourselves aloof from a broken reality. It’s a huge difference. The first is courageous; the second, arrogant.
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A Great Spirit Blessing: Discernment Exercise
BY: Denis Haack
Living in a pluralistic culture, as we do, does not mean that we live among unbelievers; it means we live among people who believe in things other than Christianity. And since secularism has been found wanting, many are adopting a variety of spiritualities and religions. This means, in turn, that we must expect to find ourselves intersecting with our neighbor’s religious convictions and practices—not just in the realm of ideas but in practice.
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A Guided Walk through The Institutes
BY: Denis Haack
Last year a friend heard that I was re-reading John Calvin’s Institutes, and wondered why I would take the time. He said it was a “very confusing” book.
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A Merer Christianity
BY: Preston Jones
For a long time I found it perplexing that some of the most politically chaotic regions of the world are also places either where Christianity has been strong for some time or is now growing rapidly.
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That's the problem with nature. Something's always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let's go watch TV.
- Bill Watterson
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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