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127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)
BY: Wesley Hill
According to this movie, it’s not that “Please help me” is more significant than “I love you.” Rather, “Please help me” is itself a form of “I love you.” The two cries belong together.
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300 (Zack Snyder, 2006)
BY: Denis Haack
Don’t all young adults dream of heroism? Of finding themselves at some point of destiny and responding with a courage they hoped they had within them, but could never be sure until such a moment?
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A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
BY: Andrew H. Trotter, Jr.
The film is a powerful look at the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winning theorist who struggles with schizophrenia.
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A Beautiful Woman
BY: Denis Haack
The Hebrews pictured Wisdom and Folly as women (see, e.g., Proverbs 3-9), a metaphor sometimes assumed to be merely misogynist and so dismissed in an age that knows better.
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A Deadly Misunderstanding (Mark Siljander, 2008)
BY: Matthew Hundley
Christians and non-Christians often find “bridges” into each others lives through aspects of the culture which they enjoy--films, books, music and literature. When a Christian is faced with developing a relationship with a Muslim we may first look for common cultural interests as well; in doing so, however, we miss the most evident “bridge” before us: Jesus Christ.
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A Faithful, Messy Purity
BY: Denis Haack
There is a difference between keeping ourselves pure, and keeping ourselves aloof from a broken reality. It’s a huge difference. The first is courageous; the second, arrogant.
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A Great Spirit Blessing: Discernment Exercise
BY: Denis Haack
Living in a pluralistic culture, as we do, does not mean that we live among unbelievers; it means we live among people who believe in things other than Christianity. And since secularism has been found wanting, many are adopting a variety of spiritualities and religions. This means, in turn, that we must expect to find ourselves intersecting with our neighbor’s religious convictions and practices—not just in the realm of ideas but in practice.
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A Guided Walk through The Institutes
BY: Denis Haack
Last year a friend heard that I was re-reading John Calvin’s Institutes, and wondered why I would take the time. He said it was a “very confusing” book.
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A Merer Christianity
BY: Preston Jones
For a long time I found it perplexing that some of the most politically chaotic regions of the world are also places either where Christianity has been strong for some time or is now growing rapidly.
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A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Busy Lives (Richard A. Swenson, M.D., 2003)
BY: Denis Haack
Richard Swenson is a medical doctor who left his practice in order to research, write, and lecture on stress, overload, and margin.
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Recognizing God's providence in the ordinary flow of events requires quiet reflection within a time tested tradition of deep wisdom.
- Denis Haack
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Occasionally we are reminded that even with the best planning all the details in life are not in our control. Interruptions--be they weather or pneumonia or economic recessions--can appear when they are least expected or appreciated. Some interruptions are minor, irritations really while others can scare us back to reconsider our basic convictions about life, meaning, and reality.
In Ransom we are committed to the notion that reflection on such issues should be done with authenticity, gratitude, fearlessness, humility, and wit. We hope this can be seen in the material posted here, and we invite you to join our conversation.
Thanks for visiting our site.
Denis & Margie Haack
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