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By Margie, Consider Creation

My Chickens Get Names and an Eglu

By Margie Haack
Raising backyard chickens brings wonder and patience, but not necessarily eggs.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Sundry (4)

By Denis Haack
Four extracts: Wendell Berry’s vital words; Marilyn Chandler on childlikeness; Michael Gerson sees rot in evangelical politics; Tish Harrison Warren on A Rocha.

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Books Film, By Denis

Book recommended: A Supreme Love (William Edgar, 2022)

By Denis Haack
William Edgar, Christian apologist and jazz pianist demonstrates in Supreme Love that jazz cannot be understood apart from the Christian gospel.

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By Denis, Consider Creation

A Rocha

By Denis Haack
A Rocha takes God’s word in scripture and creation seriously—please consider supporting its work of caring for the Lord’s earth.

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By Denis, Reading the Word

A sermon: The Problem with Being Right

By Denis Haack
Jesus tells a convicting story about two men who went to the Temple to pray. The one who was most right was unacceptable before God.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

Learning to listen takes a lifetime

By Denis Haack
I’ve been trying to learn to listen all my life. I’m still at it and have a long way to go. Learning to listen is a lifelong discipline.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Sundry (3)

By Denis Haack
Three brief extracts: young adults can’t read or write cursive; hatred breeds gullibility; and insight on state lotteries.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

What does pro-life mean about abortion?

By Denis Haack
A Christian human rights lawyer asks whether being pro-life requires us to allow the State to legally mandate childbirth.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Book Notes

By Denis Haack
Byron Borger of Hearts and Minds Bookstore send free emails called “Book Notes” calling attention to books worth reading. Please subscribe. It’s free!

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By Margie, Faithful in the Ordinary

Come Walk with Me

By Margie Haack
As we grow old, we need someone to walk with us as we enjoy the pleasures and pitfalls of aging.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

Going Back to Square One

By Denis Haack
In an uncertain world, the question is how should we respond when we are uncertain how to respond? Here’s a place to begin.

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Art Poetry Music, By Denis

Christianity and Poetry

By Denis Haack
Dana Gioia’s essay, “Christianity and Poetry” in First Things is must reading for understanding Christian faith and Scripture.

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Books Film, By Denis

Fiction reviewed: Moses, Man of the Mountain (Zora Neale Hurston, 1939)

By Denis Haack
In her superb novel, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston blends the biblical story, folklore, and the legacy of southern slavery.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Sundry (2)

By Denis Haack
Three brief extracts from my reading: prevalence of guns; how to read; our experience of faith in a pluralistic world.

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Books Film, By Margie

An Interview with Margie

By Margie Haack
Read an interview with Margie on The Cultivating Project about The Place Trilogy of memoirs I have published.

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By Denis, Faithful in the Ordinary

How being politicized erodes Christian faith

By Denis Haack
Being politicized seduces the followers of Jesus away from the primacy of Scripture and the Christ-like ethic of loving those made in God’s image.

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By Denis, Consider Creation

The hidden significance of swamps

By Denis Haack
Even parts of creation that seem unproductive and wasteful, like swamps, are the Lord’s and vital in the orderly planet he made.

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Art Poetry Music, By guest authors

Poem: Lake Superior

By Sam Hamer
Poet Sam Hamer celebrates the loveliness of the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, a place resplendent with God’s glory.

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Books Film, By Denis

Fiction Reviewed: Social Creature (Tara Isabella Burton, 2018).

By Denis Haack
Social Creature is a keen window of insight into our world, a crime novel about two young adults that merely want to live life to the fullest.

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By Denis, Discerning the World

Sundry (1)

By Denis Haack
Three brief extracts: how Christians & non-Christians see us; French social thermalism; and the difference in sermons at Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

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