The perennial issues of life never change. Every generation in every culture and people group wrestle with the four crucial issues that undergird human…
Denis Haack
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Discernment Exercise: Should We Pray? Or Protest?
The fact that we live in a religiously pluralistic culture means that we can expect to be exposed to beliefs, values, and practices that…
Discernment Exercise: Pottering About Potter
The fourth novel in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, which hit bookstores in July, represents the largest first printing (3.8 million copies) of…
Discernment Exercise: Does Spirituality Mean Inner Peace?
If you have visited a Christian book store recently or browsed through a catalog from a religious publisher you will know that self-help and…
Discernment Exercise: Banned in Christian Schools
A Christian school recently decided to develop a series of guidelines to help teachers in their selection of literature to be used in the…
Discerment Exercise: Adam and Eve Rested, But Were They Ever Bored?
Boredom is so common now-a-days that most of us tend to assume it has always plagued the human race. At least since the Fall.…
Discernment Exercise: Christian horror films?
We take film seriously in these pages, and for good reason. For one thing, it is an art form of enormous power, beauty, nuance,…
A Very Lovely, Sad Longing
John Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, notes that God’s call on our life is a deep grace—not a limitation. Rather than…
Nanking (Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman, 2007)
A Place of Safety: a review of the documentary Nanking In 1937 while Hitler consolidated power in Germany, Stalin held show-trials in Moscow, and…
Discernment Exercise: The Reach and Limits of Efficiency
I was at the Post Office this week to mail a package. I stood in line. The line snaked across the lobby and doubled…