Environmentalists come in different flavors. There are dirt environmentalists like Rachel Carson and Wendell Berry. There are ice environmentalists like Al Gore focusing on climate change. Here ice caps and polar bears become part of the narrative. And then there are chicken environmentalists. These tend to meddle with dinner and my Perdue Oven-Ready Roaster. This […]
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Satisfied: A Conversation About Fullness, Spirituality & Food
I am passionate about food. Growing it, shopping for it, smelling it, cooking it and eating it. It seems it is hard for me to get enough of it.
Behind the Food We Eat
That brings me to what struck me—maybe there are too many people who don’t know what superb, in-season produce tastes like; maybe those of us who live in this great, big country don’t give a thought to our food except to want it quick, easy, and cheap.
The Gift of Food
We live in a community where fast food is abundant. I wonder what children are growing up thinking as they fuel up with paper wrapped food often eaten in the car on the way somewhere.
“No More of This”
Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020. 5:30 pm. The House Between. Margie and I did something we rarely do—we turned on the television news, WCCO to be exact, the local Minneapolis CBS affiliate. We usually prefer print sources for the news. The point isn’t print, it’s being discerning, but I’ll circle back to that later. In […]
Pandemic Wisdom
So much has been written about the pandemic, much of it wise. I wondered why add my own? So, here are quotes from others that have encouraged me. Pandemic Wisdom When the Black Plague reached Wittenberg, where Martin Luther lived and worked, he had this to say: I shall ask God mercifully to […]
Korean Dramas as Spiritual Soul Therapy
Our modern problem is not that we are too romantic, but that we are not romantic enough. Our longing for love and romance tell us something essential about ourselves and the nature of reality. It is a backhanded proof that we were made for this. In spite of our cynicism that these longings are only […]
By the Rivers of Water (Erskine Clarke, 2013)
Needing the gospel By the Rivers of Water is far and away the best missionary biography I have ever read. In fact, it is one of the best biographies of any sort I’ve read in the past several years. Set in the geographical heart of the international slave trade in Africa and America just prior […]
Conspiracy (Frank Pierson, 2001)
What does evil look like? Once upon a time the face of evil was easily recognizable at least in the movies. It looked like Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Jack Palance in Shane. It wore a black hat and a leering expression that promised violence when angered. When I watched […]
“He will exult over you” – A funeral sermon
“He will exult over you with loud singing” A funeral sermon for my mother, Marjorie Haack by Denis Haack A reading from the Old Testament—Isaiah 61:1-3 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he […]