A discussion worth having From the beginning art has shown itself, in all its multiple forms, to be a window of insight into the…
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.
Light at Ground Zero: St. Paul’s Chapel After 9/11 (Krystyna Sanderson, 2002)
Quiet in the center of a storm On 9/11 Americans watched in growing horror as planes flew into skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, as desperate…
Intruding Upon the Timeless (Gregory Wolfe, 2003)
Meditations on Art, Faith & Mystery For the generation growing up today, within the cultural thrall of postmodernity, it is almost impossible to fully…
Rouault-Fujimura: Soliloquies (Thomas S. Hibbs & Makoto Fujimura, 2002)
Form and abstraction, beautifully In 2009, the Dillon Gallery on West 25th Street in New York City held a show featuring the work of…
Notes from the House of the Dead (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861)
A place of cold suffering On July 7, 1945, when Stalin shipped Alexander Solzhenitsyn off to a remote and brutal prison camp in Siberia…
Slipping into politicization
One of the characteristics of 21st century American culture—part of what earlier generations called “the spirit of the age”—is the politicization of life. What…
World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013)
A reasonable fear The final words uttered by Brad Pitt, the hero of World War Z, is actually the moment that the film comes…
Francis Schaeffer: A Mind and Heart for God (Bruce Little, 2010), Schaeffer on the Christian Life: Countercultural Spirituality (William Edgar, 2013)
Two on Francis Schaeffer: A mentor making sense of things In the summer of 1981 friends helped us pack our belongings into a rented…
Quietly Neglected Texts
Whenever I reread a beloved book I discover details I had not noticed before. A description that changes how I imagine a scene, or…
The Other F Word (Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, 2011)
When punkers meet fatherhood Punk rock is no longer a novel phenomenon, and like most things in our consumerist society, has gone mainstream. It…