Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
Poetry: A Promising Stone
A Promising Stone I cannot afford you flawless. To boast this stone so seeming smooth Glitters in grace through cracks and cuts And faults…
Tag: love
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…
Excerpt: Firstfruits of a New Creation
"Tears as a spark of fire" an excerpt from “Apologetic Communication” by Zack Eswine in Firstfruits of a New Creation: Essays Honoring Jerram Barrs…
The Guarded Gate (Daniel Okrent, 2019)
Restricting immigration The effort to limit immigration has a long history in America. Beginning in the late 19th century the reasons given were based…
How Do You Love God?
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…
The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity with Racism (Jemar Tisby; 2019)
Black Lives Matter Some of our stories are so grievous, so unpleasant, so full of duplicity and heartlessness that my impulse is to keep…
A Wedding Homily
These words were spoken at the marriage of Madison & Pamela on August 8, 2009 in Durham, NC. Earlier this week I was speaking…