At the heart of our vision in Ransom Fellowship is the conviction that our primary calling as Christians is to be faithful in the…
Denis Haack

Flourishing with technology: An exercise in discernment
Technology: What’s Gained and What’s Lost? In an article titled “How You’ll Get Organized,” James Fallows asked five technology experts “to speculate about the…
Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi (Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz, 2013)
The View on the Ground The world remains a troubled, and troubling place. Wars have proliferated into seemingly never ending skirmishes in numerous places…
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
When the Journey Takes Us Nowhere Woody Grant, played with great sensitivity by the veteran actor Bruce Dern, sets out from his home in…
Broken Hallelujahs: Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God (Christian Scharen, 2011)
Popular music in theological perspective Christians who wish to be discerning in engaging our world will need to pay attention to popular music. Some…
F.F. Bruce: A Life (Tim Grass, 2011)
A gentle, accessible scholar My first memory of F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) was his book, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? It was…
Over the Earth I Come (Duane Schultz, 1992)
Stolen Land After 33 years living in the same house, we moved to a town named Savage. We live on stolen land. From Tierra…
The Milk Carton Kids
A perfect blending I first heard The Milk Carton Kids watching the superb television documentary, Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the music of Inside…
Woven Hand, Refractory Obdurate (2014)
Woe to the broken planet If David Eugene Edwards was a fictional character instead of a musician, he’d appear in a story by Flannery…
Rapturous visions—or not
A while back the hymn, “Blessed Assurance” was in the service of morning worship in our church. That hymn is always a problem for…

