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.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Books Noted: The Free World (Louis Menand, 2021) and Paul: A Biography (N. T. Wright, 2018) By Denis Haack Two books, a compendium of short pieces on the art and ideas that propelled America to prominence between 1945-1968, and a biography of St. Paul.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Fiction Briefly Noted: Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel, 2014) & “Matryona’s House” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1971) By Denis Haack A dystopian science fiction novel and a Russian short story help us focus on what matters most.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Books Noted: Saving Us (Katherine Hayhoe, 2021) and Calvinism for a Secular Age (Jessica Joustra & Robert Joustra, 2022) By Denis Haack Two helpful books. One helps us talk Christianly about climate change and the other helps us think Christianly about all of life and culture.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Book review: Lifting the Veil: Imagination & the Kingdom of God (Malcolm Guite, 2021) By Denis Haack In Lifting the Veil, poet, priest, and scholar Malcolm Guite restores the imagination to its rightful place in Christian faithfulness.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Book review: How to be Perfec t: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (Michael Schur, 2022) By Denis Haack Most books on moral philosophy are dense and dry, requiring us to slog through turgid prose and convoluted logic. Except this one.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Movie: (TV actually) Human dignity depicted in Unforgotten (PBS, Masterpiece Theater) By Denis Haack A detective series on Masterpiece Theater (PBS) that emphasizes mercy and human dignity.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Book review: He Saw That It Was Good: Reimagining your creative life to repair a broken world (Sho Baraka, 2021) By Denis Haack In this lively exploration of following Jesus with creative faithfulness, a recording artist and activist challenges readers to love God in both truth and beauty.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Book review: Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, 2020) By Denis Haack Piranesi is a novel that tells a delightfully imaginative story and invites us to ask questions that need serious reflection.Read more
Books Film, By Denis Book review: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Kristin Kobes Du Mez, 2020) By Denis Haack A wicked strain of toxic masculinity has long infected White evangelicalism. Jesus & John Wayne traces that sad history.Read more