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
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.
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…