Alain de Botton, philosopher and author of The Architecture of Happiness (which I recommend) has launched a project through The School of Life (theschooloflife.com)…
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 301: From Story to Drama
I wish I could read this aloud to you, but I can’t. We aren’t in the same room, for one thing, which is a…
Our Only World: Ten Essays (Wendell Berry, 2015)
Seeing What’s Really Around Us When I was small it was not uncommon for some adult to mention that some fool or other needed…
Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions (Phil Zuckerman, 2014)
How to be secular The purpose that motivated Phil Zuckerman to write Living the Secular Life is elegant in its simplicity. A convinced secularist…
How (Not) to be Secular (James K.A. Smith, 2014)
Insight into our secular world In 2007 McGill University philosopher Charles Taylor published A Secular Age, the culmination of a lifetime of careful study…
The Weepies, Sirens (2015)
This is not the way I thought it would be Sirens (2015), the first full-length album by The Weepies in five years, released after…
Fool’s Talk (Os Guinness, 2015)
Persuasive faith in a dismissive world Over the decades, Os Guinness has written books that have named exactly what’s needed to be named for…
Keeping Up in a Fast Paced World
Judging by the media, the world is changing rapidly and there are more questions than answers in how best to respond. The world of…
Facing Guns and Horror
Community / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
In a thoughtful and pained reflection, “The Inexplicable: Inside the mind of a mass killer,” Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard tries to comprehend the…
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (2015)
When loss and love in the past linger For several days after downloading Sufjan Steven’s latest album, Carrie & Lowell, I simply pressed REPEAT…