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Love and Loss Amidst the Dunes: a review of the novel The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
BY: Denis Haack
Annie Dillard has an uncanny ability to see—to observe things, creatures, people, and life with a beguiling simplicity and clarity. More remarkably, she is gifted in capturing what she sees in words, so that when I read her finely crafted prose I see things, creatures, people, and life with greater clarity as well.
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Resources for Understanding Scripture
BY: Denis Haack
Christian discernment is not the process of applying minds and imaginations to issues of life and culture. It is, rather, applying minds and imaginations shaped by Scripture to issues of life and culture. Those three words make all the difference.
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Wearing Out on Purpose
BY: Giles Slade
Deliberate obsolescence in all its forms—technological, psychological, or planned-is a uniquely American invention. Not only did we invent disposable products, ranging from diapers to cameras to contact lenses, but we invented the very concept of disposability itself, as a necessary precursor to our rejection of tradition and our promotion of progress and change.
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Re-Thinking Issues: Civility and Immigration
BY: Denis Haack
As I write this America is in the midst of a political campaign... which means it is a time to make choices, which means we need to think about issues responsibly, which means for Christians that our politics needs to be intentionally under Christ’s Lordship, which means that we need to be sure our thinking is informed by a biblically informed Christian perspective instead of being simply swept along by political ideologies or slogans or party loyalties.
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Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation (William C. Placher, 2005)
BY: Denis Haack
Callings is a rich resource, especially for those of us who do not have easy access to a large university library. Here in one volume is Justin Martyr, Athanasius, and Augustine; Bernard of Clairvaux, Aquinas, and Thomas á Kempis; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and William Perkins; Sren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Sayers, Karl Barth, and so many more.
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Reading Oswald Chambers, yesterday, he writes, "Spiritual muddle is only made plain by obedience. Immediately we obey, we discern." Seems awfully close to Ransom's credo, "developing discernment, deepening discipleship." Sometimes I put it this way: moral commitment precedes epistemological insight. We always do live out of our hearts: we see and hear and feel out of our hearts.
Steven Garber
Ransom Board Member
(for Denis & Margie)
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