by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2023 | Opinion
An ominous warning that a “war on Christmas” was being waged by those who wanted to remove the distinctive Christian focus of the holiday accompanied our annual holiday season not long ago. The phrase seems to have come from John Gibson 2006’s book The War on...
by Colin Harris | Oct 27, 2022 | Opinion
Integrity seems to be on the ballot this election season, maybe as much or more than it has been in recent memory. The dominant issues identified by the analysts and pollsters – abortion, the economy, immigration, crime, even “threat to democracy” – ebb and flow in...
by Colin Harris | Oct 18, 2022 | Opinion
A comment linking voting and prayer by a candidate for political office in the U.S. caught my attention. One’s vote, in addition to being an exercise of civic responsibility, is also a prayer, this person suggested. In the brief explanation that followed, the point...
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...
