by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2021 | Opinion
The events and themes of the biblical testimony of the pilgrimage of the covenant people provide us not only with landmarks that accent the church year, but also with metaphors that can be applied to the journey of faith, both personally and collectively. Famine,...
by Colin Harris | Oct 16, 2020 | Opinion
The year was 20 – not 2020, just 20. Two thousand years ago, long before the issues dominating our headlines and news cycles were anywhere close to the horizon, there was a faith community with a covenant deeply rooted in a long history. On the edge of a mighty empire...
by Colin Harris | Oct 6, 2020 | Opinion
“Dance with the One that Brung Ya” is the title of a song of uncertain (to me) origin but brought into public political discourse by President Ronald Reagan who used it to underscore the importance of consistency in promise and behavior in the political process. It...
by Colin Harris | Sep 15, 2020 | Opinion
Studies in Jeremiah have typically summarized his assessment of Judah’s waywardness from covenant faithfulness under the two sins of injustice and idolatry. He clearly joins his predecessors in calling out the patterns of social and economic life that allowed the...
by Colin Harris | Nov 4, 2019 | Opinion
“Exile” is a very negative word, conjuring up images of forced deportation and political banishment. Even in the milder forms of some traditions’ practice of “shunning” those who have misbehaved, a kind of social and psychological exile alienates one from the...
