CRITIQUE 2013:3 CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR Quietly 1 Neglected Texts DISCERNING LIFE Faithfulness in a Consumerist 2 2013 Issue 3 © Ransom Fellowship 6REFLECTIONS Society EDITOR Loneliness Denis Haack by Scott Schuleit DeSIGNER Karen Coulter Perkins BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steven Garber Director, The Washington Institute, Washington, D.C. Donald Guthrie Professor of Educational Ministries PAPER AND CANVAS Director of PhD Program in Educational Studies Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois 8The Forbidden Bird Denis and Margie Haack A short story by Scott Schuleit Co-founders, Ransom Fellowship, Minnesota Bonnie Liefer RESOURCE Vice President for Marketing and Communications 11 CCO, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Seeing a Stork Henry Tazelaar A review by Wesley Hill of Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Professor of Pathology Margie Haack’s The Exact Place Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Arizona 14 CONTACT CRITIQUE RESOURCE www.RansomFellowship.org Christian America? 1150 West Center, Rochester, MN 55902
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