by Colin Harris | Sep 28, 2022 | Opinion
A collection of parables in Luke’s gospel that focus on the nature and challenges of discipleship have been the focus of recent Lectionary texts. With good help from Tony Cartledge’s excellent commentary material in the Nurturing Faith Journal, our Sunday School class...
by Colin Harris | Aug 24, 2022 | Opinion
Circumstances have a way of bringing into everyday conversation terms and concepts that become frequent in their use. Current attention has brought a term like “unprecedented” into our reflections on events that have dominated the public stage, and we hear it...
by Colin Harris | Jul 19, 2022 | Opinion
Immanuel Kant was one of the influential voices in what we now call the “Enlightenment.” In that period, mostly during the 18th century, the confluence of scientific discovery and philosophical inquiry ushered in what we now consider to be the modern age. Kant was...
by Colin Harris | Jun 23, 2022 | Opinion
Thomas Jefferson is widely noted for his emphasis on the necessity of an educated electorate for the experiment of a democratic republic to work. A combination of confirmed statements by him and quotes attributed to him point to an informed populace as a foundation...
by Colin Harris | May 25, 2022 | Opinion
One of creation’s gifts to humankind, according to the foundational testimony we find in Genesis 1:28, is: “Be fruitful and multiply … and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”...
