by Colin Harris | Jun 8, 2020 | Opinion
I suspect most of us who are white have been in a conversation that shares deep concern about the brokenness of our society’s social and moral landscape. And I’m sure we have heard a friend or family member be quick on the defense: “I am not a racist.” Given what the...
by Colin Harris | May 22, 2020 | Opinion
“Pandemic” would be a reasonable guess for Dictionary.com’s choice for the “Word of the Year” in 2020. In my memory, nothing has consumed our public and private lives with the intensity that has been caused by the presence and spread of this virus. Observations have...
by Colin Harris | May 5, 2020 | Opinion
Close-up magic known as “sleight of hand” uses distractions to pull the eye away from something that winds up being an unexplainable surprise. What actually happened was there all along, but the eye was “tricked” not to see it. It’s very entertaining. This image has...
by Colin Harris | Apr 7, 2020 | Opinion
If things were normal, we would be amid what is generally considered the holiest of weeks in the Christian calendar. We would have celebrated Palm Sunday, perhaps with children waving palm branches in a reenactment of that scene of Jesus approaching Jerusalem on a...
by Colin Harris | Mar 23, 2020 | Opinion
The coincidence of the church’s season of Lent and the pandemic of the COVID-19 virus has created a unique intensity to the kind of reflection that is encouraged at this time of the year. Our Sunday School class began the Lenten season by studying the testimony of the...
