Much that is written about poverty can be rather depressing. Wearisome debates between Left and Right, manipulative pieces designed to evoke guilt, rants about…
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.
Religion and Medical Ethics: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Edited by Allen Verhey, 1996)
In 1993 The Institute of Religion sponsored a conference at which the papers gathered in this volume were presented. This is the first in…
Redeeming the Routines: Bringing Theology to Life (Robert Banks, 2001)
When Redeeming the Routines was originally published in 1993, we called attention to it in these pages. It’s reappearance, after having gone out of…
Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (Dorothy C. Bass, 2000)
Growing up in the church meant that I heard the stories recorded in the Old Testament, including the ones which told of how the…
Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis (Edited by Thomas L. Martin, 2000)
An underlying conviction of this book,” Dr. Martin says of Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis, “is that while many continue to read…
Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of Biblical Application (Daniel M. Doriani, 2001)
God has spoken” in the Scriptures, J. I. Packer notes, “and godliness means hearing His word. ‘Hearing’ in this phrase means more, of course,…
Puritan Papers (Volume 2, 1960-1962) (J. I. Packer, 2001)
For many years, Martyn Lloyd-Jones and J. I. Packer convened a conference of Christian thinkers in London to reflect on the work, theology and…
Puritan Papers: Volume One (1956-1959) (Edited by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 2000)
Beginning in 1950, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones began hosting a series of gatherings that came to be known as “The Puritan Conference.” For nearly thirty…
Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism (Richard Winter, 2005)
Perfectionism is a slippery topic. When does a healthy desire to strive for excellence slip over into an unhealthy self-centeredness where no one else…
Parenting without Perfection: Being a Kingdom Influence in a Toxic World (David John Seel, Jr., 2000)
Few topics are as popular today—or as controversial—as Christian parenting. Perhaps this is natural, given the importance of raising children in today’s post-Christian world.…