When the recession began in 2008 and huge, fabled institutions were shown to be less secure than most people had believed, the word “trust”…
Denis Haack
Denis is the author of The Rest of Success: What the World Didn’t Tell You About Having It All and has written articles for such journals as Reformation & Revival Journal, Eternity, Covenant, and World. He holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies degree from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis.
Engaging the New Atheists (III): Resources
For those who would like a few resources to help think through the claims of the New Atheists, I will suggest three. The first…
A Guided Walk through The Institutes
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…
Home (Marilynne Robinson, 2008)
No Place At Home I never finished reading Marilynne Robinson’s earlier novel, Gilead (2006), though I always intended to get back to it sometime.…
What makes you afraid?
What do you fear? Hardly a week goes by without some report identifying some threat in the food supply. Experts say that terrorist sleeper…
Faith At The Edge: A Book for Doubters (Robert Wennberg, 2009)
When God Seems Far Away: There have been times when I have sensed God's presence and grace in a way that seems to me…
Non-Christians Reflect on Calling
Books / Culture / Ordinary Life / Work and Rest
“Vocation and calling, the editors of Calling in Today’s World note correctly, “are Christian concepts. They do not appear in other religions” (p. xi).…
Karen Choi, Through Our Veins (2016)
Yearning for a home beyond time I had the chance earlier this summer to hear Karen Choi play at the Aster Café in Minneapolis.…
Nourishing Our Souls
“Beautiful things are a delight to the senses, a pleasure to the mind, and a refreshment for the spirit,” artist Makoto Fujimura writes in…
The immigrant who shaped America
I decided to read Alexander Hamilton when I heard it was an excellent biography, that author Ron Chernow combined the careful research of a…