Walter Wangerin, Jr., Lutheran pastor and author of the superbly crafted novel, The Book of the Dun Cow, has written what must be one…
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 Ancient Love Song: Finding Christ in the Old Testament (Charles D. Drew, 1996, 2000)
Reading and understanding the Old Testament correctly means reading and understanding it as Jesus did. And he saw the Old Testament, from beginning to…
Discernment Exercise: Sound Bites for Jesus
I’m not tense, just terribly alert. It’s as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you. Suburbia: where they rip out…
Discernment Exercise: Discussing Taste Tastefully
Unless you never talk about art with people, or carefully limit all discussions of aesthetic taste to those who are precisely like yourself, you’ll…
Discernment Exercise: Can We Vote Christianly?
Unless you really like politics, it’s rather hard, sometimes—let’s be honest—to get very enthusiastic about most elections. The constant barrage of commercials, the phone…
Reformed Iconography: The Art of James Disney
We were eating lunch when James Disney suddenly said, “I see a landscape.” We were not talking about landscapes at that moment, or about…
Bruce Bezaire: Meticulous Renderings of Glory
Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-color as a brindled cow; For rose-moles all in stiple upon trout that swims…
Insight into Film: Why We Talk About Films
Discernment / Movies / Pluralistic World
We believe that the films we call attention to are valuable for the discerning Christian. Valuable as a window of insight into the heart…
A Stick Becomes the Staff of God: Reflections on Faithfulness in the Ordinary & the Routine
Creation / Faith / Scripture / Spirituality
The seven sons of Sceva, we're told in Acts 19, attempted an exorcism only to be cast out themselves. Impressed with the Holy Spirit's…
The Scandal of Harry Potter
Most people know something of the story behind the Harry Potter novels, but that doesn’t make it any less remarkable. It begins in 1990,…