Category Archives: Families

Is RIP All?

Posted on March 30, 2026 by Paul Harris

Before reading further you must listen to this mp3. I referred to this 9-25-11 on St. Michael and All Angels and rightly pointed out the error of this song in saying “we shall stand guard though the angels sleep.” Angels … Continue reading →

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Radio Free Catholicism

Posted on March 2, 2026 by Paul Harris

Well, it’s not really radio free, but it is real Catholicism. To a point. Relevant Radio came on the air 25 years ago. It started in Austin in 2005 having taken over the Protestant Christian radio station that interestingly enough … Continue reading →

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“At All Costs”

Posted on February 16, 2026 by Paul Harris

That is what the upcoming season of Lent is about. But without a little military background, you might not know how foreboding, far-reaching, how significant those three little words are.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Egalitarianism

Posted on February 2, 2026 by Paul Harris

This is a picture of one of my son’s over 30 years ago in my LBE, Load Bearing Equipment. I’m sure they have other names for this gear now. In fact in the 70s it was called something else too. … Continue reading →

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The Relationship Between Trophies for all and Elitism for None

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Paul Harris

All my kids (I think) played Little League in Louisiana. It was in the mid to late-nineties that one of them came home from his last game with a foot or taller trophy. I know his team was not in … 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

Posted on January 5, 2026 by Paul Harris

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

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Paul Harris

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

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Paul Harris

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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What the Devil?

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Paul Harris

From the above expression of surprise or annoyance, to ‘speak of the devil’, to ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’, to ‘the devil made me do it’, and more, the devil gets a lot of airtime. Below was … Continue reading →

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State of the Arts

Posted on October 20, 2025 by Paul Harris

I don’t know whether or not to recommend State of the Arts, a 1991 book by Gene Veith. I’m not an artist. I appreciate art, but his book exposes the limited validity of thinking “I know what I like” is … Continue reading →

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