Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
Ashes and Repentance
The association of ashes (or dust) with repentance has a long history. After Job, for example, encounters God, his response is to “repent in…
Category: Death
Final Words
As I wrote this post it happened to be during Holy Week. After a difficult few days when Denis' mother suffered a nosebleed that…
Reflections on my father’s funeral
On April 25th the nursing home informed us that my father had died. He was 93 and failing, though slowly, and the end came…
Film comment: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
“I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it right,” Hushpuppy says matter-of-factly in Beasts of…
Film Comment: Melancholia (2011)
When despair is realism Lars von Trier, the Danish filmmaker, has recently been in the news for controversial comments surrounding his film Melancholia that…
Among the dead, or the asphalt
Russell Moore makes an interesting observation in Touchstone (September 2008; p. 16-18). He notes that though in the past churches used to have graveyards…