Sometimes the simplest songs are best. I'm not thinking of simplistic music, the sort of mindless jingles that assault us in service of consumerist…
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.
A One-Way Trip Into Space
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new…
Listening to Critics: When Musicians Raise Questions About Faith (I)
Music not only nurtures our souls it speaks to the deepest issues of life. “I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you…
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2007)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008)
How Stories End If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.-Groucho Marx Three very different movies…
What Would Jesus Value?
Discernment / Scripture / Spirituality / The Skill
Surveys reveal there is apparently a marked disparity between the number of people—especially among males—who claim to believe in Christianity and the number who…
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity (Thomas C. Oden, 2007)
Out of Dark Africa...LightAfrica was long known in the West as the “Dark Continent.” The explorer Henry Stanley (of “Dr. Livingstone I presume” fame)…
The Wonderful Freedom to Fail
Faith / Ordinary Life / Visual Art
Speaking at the 2009 Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) conference allowed me to attend some fascinating presentations. New York artist Makoto Fujimura, for…
Questions from an Athiest
Faith / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
One of the selections Christopher Hitchens includes in his The Portable Atheist is from A Farewell to God by Charles Templeton. In it, Templeton…
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Unbeliever (Christopher Hitchens, 2007)
Arguments for Unbelief To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange…
Walking On Christ’s Property
Nestled in the midst of busy, crowded streets lined with shops in upper Manhattan is a place of quiet and beauty called The Cloisters.…