Denis Haack

Denis
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.

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta, 2004)

Books

Bombay population Greater Bombay's population, currently 19 million, is bigger than that of 173 countries in the world. If it were a country by…

300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)

Movies

Don’t all young adults dream of heroism? Of finding themselves at some point of destiny and responding with a courage they hoped they had…

U2 by U2 (2006)

Books

This large format book is full of pictures and commentary in which the band members tell the story of U2, remember highs and lows,…

The Music of Grizzly Man

Music

Music for the Wild For thirteen years Timothy Treadwell chose to live among the grizzlies deep in the wilds of Alaska. Treadwell filmed the…

Discernment Exercise: Choosing our Spirituality

Discernment / Exercises

In the April 2007 issue of Sun, a literary magazine, the editor featured an interview with John O’Donohue, an Irish poet/philosopher and former priest.…

Bird Feeders

Creation / Work and Rest

A few months back a young couple spent a weekend with us at Toad Hall. Scott had graciously come to help us plaster and…

Discernment Exercise: Offensive Magazine Cover?

Discernment / Exercises

The editor of Discipleship Journal, a bi-monthly magazine published by The Navigators, reprinted a piece by me in their January/February 2007 issue. It appeared…

Discernment Exercise: Loving Lesbian Neighbors

Discernment / Exercises

As Christians we believe that living faithfully before the face of God includes treating non-Christians as persons made in the image of God. As…

Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)

Movies

The possibility of hope There is something precious about the birth of a child. An event of wonder and promise, it engenders hope. That…

J. J. Cale & Eric Clapton, The Road to Escondido (2006)

Music

Kindred spirits make music: a review of The Road to Escondido by J. J. Cale & Eric Clapton In 1970, after years of proving…