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Margie Haack

Margie Haack and her husband, Denis, are co-directors of a ministry, Ransom Fellowship, which helps Christians engage postmodern culture, and challenges them to live in ways that are both authentic to the Christian faith and winsome in its expression. This work includes writing and speaking about any topic from movies to tattooing in light of biblical faith.

The practice of hospitality has been central to their lives. They like to invite people into conversation, through their writing, their home, lives, giving unhurried time and a safe place where one can talk about anything, maybe eat some of Margie’s great chicken enchiladas and then take a nap.

Margie is editor of a quarterly newsletter, Notes From Toad Hall, where she writes about being faithful in the ordinary and the everyday. She has a completed manuscript currently being shopped—Through Devil’s Gap—a memoir of growing up in an impoverished farm family in northern Minnesota, and of coming to faith. Margie has three children and seven grandchildren, and thinks the final count may not be in yet.

SweeTango me with Apples

If I were to make a list of autumn comfort foods, it would have to include apples. The fragrance of baking them penetrates some mighty dark spaces of life with their spicy, sweet aroma.

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Margie Haack Oct 15, 2010

SweeTango me with Apples

If I were to make a list of autumn comfort foods, it would have to include apples. The fragrance of baking them penetrates some mighty dark spaces of life with their spicy, sweet aroma.

Margie Haack Mar 19, 2010

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Almost perfect

Long ago, I began a journey of leaving behind the goal of perfection when I walked into the kitchen. In the kitchen, in marriage, in all of life: if we want perfection or nothing, we’ll get nothing.

Margie Haack Oct 9, 2009

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The scent of slow

We thought Julia Child’s recipes took too long, were too complicated. We should have known better.

Margie Haack Jun 19, 2009

The solace of asparagus

Any time I’m in the kitchen I’m only seconds away from disaster—and yet, despite the rough-draft quality of some meals, I’m always trying to communicate through the language of food, simply, “I care about you.”

Margie Haack Feb 27, 2009

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Warmth

How ordinary acts can become simple comforts, and extraordinary delights.

Margie Haack Oct 10, 2008

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Q&A with Margie Haack, “Ransom Fellowship”

To a nine-year-old, I’d say we try to help people see if God is as important as adult Christians say he is, and if he is so interested in our lives, then how do we see evidence of him in all parts of life—not just the praying, reading-the-Bible, going-to-church bits of life?