Last year a friend, Tim Giese, phoned with an invitation, though he worded it as a challenge. “You’re always talking about discerning culture,” he…
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.
The Case for Civility (Os Guinness, 2008) & Christians at the Border (M. Daniel Carroll, 2008)
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in…
Kimya Dawson, remember that i love you (2006)
An Intimate, Authentic Revelation of Hearts i'm lost and alone and i'm fair and i'm free you am what you is and i are…
A Practical Method of Bible Study for Ordinary Christians
Consider the classic definition of “thinking Christianly” formulated by Os Guinness and notice the central relationship the Christian mind has to the Word of…
When the Church Fails Us
Discernment / Faith / Spirituality
We recently received an email which I wanted to answer, but decided it deserved more than the brief response which would fit on the…
Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (William C. Placher, 2005)
Feet in time, footprints in eternity “The Christian understanding of motivation is one of the deepest, richest, and most distinctive parts of the faith,”…
Discernment Exercise: Measuring Spirituality
Given the wide-spread interest in spirituality today, it probably isn’t surprising that a psychologist has proposed a way to gauge “spiritual intelligence.” Robert Emmons…
The Matrix: Reloaded (Andy & Larry Wachowski, 2003)
Neo-pagan sexuality The sex scene in The Matrix: Reloaded is lengthy, its impact increased by the pulsating drum score which accompanies it. It was…
The cost of creativity
Some people are good at catchy titles and headlines, but I am not. I complained earlier this week over the effort it took to…
Repose in Grace
“John Calvin believed that an unredeemed life keeps oscillating back and forth between pride (‘I’ve made it!’) and despair (‘I’ll never make it!’). In…