Monthly Archives: February 2025

Useful Suffering

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Paul Harris

When suffering one either migrates to the poll of despair or resignation; at least I do. We know that despair is not of God but of the Evil One. We know that resignation is the refuge of the fatalists, Stoics, … Continue reading →

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To be Hoisted Yet Again

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Paul Harris

Having recently published a blog about the ‘necessity’ (This word seems ill-advised in this context, but nevertheless.) of properly discerning what is truly adiaphora I find myself flummoxed, adrift, even asea.

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Apparatchiks Я Us

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Paul Harris

I’ve been banging on Concordia Health Plan’s publication Better Health for years. To sum up my take from 2013 (“Better Health Poorer Christianity” 7-29-2013) and from 2009 (“Food for Thought” 11-09-2009), I would subtitle Better Health with :Poorer Theology.

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