Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
I Want to Live Here
“I want to live here.” That was Anita’s response to our week long stay at a cabin in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area –…
Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
I recently reread St Augustine’s Confessions. And once again I am impressed by his uncompromising insistence that love is central to Christian faith and…
“I want to live here.” That was Anita’s response to our week long stay at a cabin in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area –…
As I wrote this post it happened to be during Holy Week. After a difficult few days when Denis' mother suffered a nosebleed that…
SUMMER and what you thought would be completely doable suddenly becomes Boot Camp for the unwary. Does this happen to you? You look at…
It is an interesting exercise to ask friends what changes going on in our world seem to them to be most significant. The answers…
The association of ashes (or dust) with repentance has a long history. After Job, for example, encounters God, his response is to “repent in…
One. He insisted if I was a girl I be named after her. Interesting, isn’t it? Boys are frequently named after the father and…
A Christmas card arrived last week. Nothing unusual about that in the month of December. It isn't often that a mere card digs into…
A Salt Dough Creche Soire One December, many years ago when I was still into crafting like my redemption depended on it, I decided…
A failure of imagination In the July 30, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, Laura Miller, a Slate columnist published “Accept the Mystery,” a…