What does God want with so many stars and black holes in infinite space? What is God’s plan on rainy nights when the wind…
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.
Discernment Exercise: How Committed is Too Committed?
In a report published in Harper’s (January 2016, p. 53-62), “The Ultimate Terrorist Factory: Are French prisons incubating extremism?” journalist Scott Sayare tells how…
The Uncomfortable Path to Maturity
Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
Long before I heard the term, disequilibrium was a part of the process of growth in my life. It’s the term educational theorists use…
A Poetic Endnote on Sleep
I know that some people think me a little compulsive for always glancing through the endnotes of books by authors I respect. Endnotes aren’t…
Finding Silence
Sometimes silence can communicate far more than words can imagine. In St John’s Revelation, the last book in the biblical canon, the apostle is…
Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
When true love waits The first song, “Burn the Witch” on Radiohead’s newest album is in homage to the brilliant British cult classic horror…
Culture Care (Makoto Fujimura, 2014)
Books / Maturity and Flourishing / Visual Art / Work and Rest
Beauty in Life An important word for artist Makoto Fujimura is generative, by which he means anything that brings beauty into life to bring…
Rumours of Glory: A Memoir (Bruce Cockburn, 2014)
Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere In Minnesota we are used, each winter, to the jet stream bringing great stretches of cold arctic…
In Praise of Inefficiency
One proof of capitalism’s success can be seen in the unquestioned assumption that its values always contribute to human flourishing. Efficiency and productivity, for…
The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015)
The power of money and greed On September 15, 2008 the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was the beginning of…