I first heard of The Civil Wars in Nashville, from their producer, Charlie Peacock. They stood out, he said, so it wasn’t surprising that…
Denis Haack
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Daniel Okrent, 2010)
A sober experiment From January 17, 1920 through December 5, 1933, the United States underwent a nation-wide experiment in using law to curb what…
Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith (Francis Collins, 2010)
On November 20, 1959 a bank teller named Henry Bemis slipped into the vault to find a moment of quiet during his lunch break…
American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood (Marc Eliot, 2009)
Raw Life It was impossible to predict that the tall rugged actor who played Rowdy Yates in all 217 episodes of the TV western,…
Snow (Orhan Pamuk, 2002)
Trying to Find Our Way We have friends who work for the U.S. State Department, and over the years they’ve accepted posts in countries…
Talking Can Be Wrong
Maturity and Flourishing / Safe Place
Words can hurt. Having childhood tears dismissed with sarcasm, “real men don’t cry,” proved that to me early in life. Even truthful words can…
Lost Sparrow (Chris Billing, 2009)
Chris Billing is an unassuming man, a journalist and documentarian who cares enough for the truth that he is willing to pursue it even…
Listening to Critics: When Musicians Raise Questions About Faith (II)
It was one of those rare moments in life. It’s only happened twice to me, that I remember exactly where I was and what…
The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology (Kevin J. Vanhoozer, 2005)
Common sense and cannon sense I suspect everyone knows what common sense is, though not everyone exhibits it. It’s that almost inexplicable practical wisdom…
None Other Lamb, None Other Name: In a Broken World, a Quiet Confidence
I grew up around hymns and early learned to dislike them. It was the only music allowed in our fundamentalist home. I didn’t have…