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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 Very Lovely, Sad Longing
BY: Denis Haack
In the liner notes of her latest album, All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris writes that all she ever intended was to be “a singer of songs, a writer of songs, and a strummer of a few chords, in search of the truth.” I’d say she’s been faithful to that calling, and our lives are richer as a result.
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Aimee Mann: Lost in Space (2002)
BY: Denis Haack
Aimee Mann does not try to produce singles that will become hits; she writes and sings songs that are meant to get under your skin.
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Alison Krauss: Paper Airplane (2011)
BY: Denis Haack
I am not a musicologist nor am I a musician, so this is just a wild guess but I would not be surprised if most music the world over celebrates love or mourns its loss. Nothing else comes so close so quickly to touch the human condition in all its joy and pain.
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Bach: Mass in B Minor (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, cond. Robert Shaw, 1990)
BY: John Mason Hodges, Jr.
In his Mass in B minor Bach sets the text of the mass to music in quite a different way than his renaissance predecessors.
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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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