Author Archives: Paul Harris

About Paul Harris

Pastor Harris retired from congregational ministry after 40 years in office on 31 December 2023. He is now devoting himself to being a husband, father, and grandfather. He still thinks cenobitic monasticism is overrated and cave dwelling under.

Back-Alley Abortions and Murder

Now that abortion “rights” have become a states’ issue and no longer a federal right you regularly hear rabid young women (mostly) fairly frothing at the mouth foretelling back-alley abortions and the butchering that entails. On the right, you will … Continue reading

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For Millennials and Gen Z who know the “Truth” about Science and Religion and Christianity’s Collusion, Approval, and Support of Slavery, Witch-Hunts, and Suppression of Science

If you think you know these things, you need to read this 2003 book by Rodney Stark For the Glory of God – How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery. These are notes I took … Continue reading

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Some Divine Truths Can Only Be Illustrated by Human Absurdity

I’ll give you an example of this: David’s overwhelming love for Absalom which leads to his open rebellion, eventually hanging by his hair/head plucked from his running horse by a tree branch, and pierced through with many arrows, illustrates God’s … Continue reading

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A Christmas Blog

I searched in vain for the sermon of bygone years where I said we really shouldn’t be too critical of the 1969 invented holiday of Kwanzaa since our American Christmas – the cards, the tree, Santa, and the snow-covered landscape … Continue reading

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We Got Next

Have you seen the “We Got Now” ad campaign by New Balance? We’ll have I got one for Nike, Adidas, or Reebok, et. al. to respond with. It came to me when me and the Mrs. visited an Apple store … Continue reading

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Not Knowing How the Day Will End

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The Sunday Scaries

I let my subscription to Harper’s lapse for a year before they made be an offer that I couldn’t refuse. Though I often referred to Harper’s in this blog overall the writing frustrated me muchly.

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Vermicular Hymns

It started as an ordinary Midweek Lenten Service. Befitting such a somber season the opening hymn was Alas! and did My Savior Bleed. Then we sang “for sinners such as I”. What? Did my ears deceive me? Where did the … Continue reading

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All Truth is God’s

This is a Reformed position, but I have heard putative Confessional Lutherans use it to defend their support of everything from psychological therapy that is now a sine qua non of a “normal” life, to Freudian “Truths”, to the daily … Continue reading

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Is EI for Real?

This picture says it all.

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