The Exact Place
A Search for Father

Margie Haack was born in Warroad, Minnesota and grew up in rural Lake of the Woods County. When she graduated from high school, she entered the University of Minnesota as a pre-med student. That was where she met and married her husband, Denis Haack. They moved to New Mexico where they lived in a commune for several years, served on the staff of a church, ran a small janitorial service and did other clever things that allowed them to eat pinto beans and green chile every day. In 1981 they moved to Rochester, MN, where they were mentored by Francis and Edith Schaeffer at L'Abri. Margie and Denis co-direct Ransom Fellowship, a ministry devoted to helping Christians thoughtfully love and engage the world. Margie has three adult children and nine grandchildren. Margie thinks that leaving her home of 35 years and moving to a place with bedroom and bath on the main floor means the next move will be to the Home she'd always dreamed of with an Italian espresso machine and a daybed on the porch. She writes a quarterly newsletter "Letters from the House Between" containing personal essays about being ordinary in a world that loves the sensational and the historic. You can also find her blogging about "what's funny, what's holy, what's suffering" at Toads Drink Coffee.