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.

Virtue Signaling

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Paul Harris
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Tantamount to Sacrilege

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Paul Harris

This Good Friday blog had its genesis in my pastor’s remark in a Lenten sermon, but it sprung to life while on a walk somedays later. The first sermonic thought I had had in 15 months. No exaggeration. Before retirement, … Continue reading →

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Resisting Artificial Intelligence

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Paul Harris

The above is the title of Harper’s July 2024 issue. I sure don’t hear many raising this hue and cry. According to Benjamín Labatut’s essay “The God’s of Logic – Before and after artificial intelligence”, we ought to be listening to Geoffrey … Continue reading →

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Just as I Suspicioned

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Paul Harris

I heard my mother-in-law say now and again that she ‘suspicioned’ this or that. I always thought that was a made up word. My Merriam-Webster says it is a word though they consider it “chiefly dialectal”. I always liked the word … Continue reading →

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If not for the Laughing I’d be crying

Posted on March 31, 2025 by Paul Harris
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Give us 18 Minutes, we’ll give you the world

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Paul Harris

The Satellite News Network (SNC) debuted in 1982 with  this slogan.  It would be more accurate to say that if you give them 18 minutes they will give you their world, the world as they see it, believe it, edit … Continue reading →

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Is Implying Closed Communion Practicing It?

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Paul Harris

Again, I don’t go browsing, surfing, or shopping the web for Communion Statements. Something else brought me to St. Paul Lutheran Church & Early Childhood Ministry, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod,  Columbus, IN. Once there I checkd out their Sunday bulletin, … Continue reading →

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Who’s Writing the History Now?

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Paul Harris

You know the adage that history is written by the winners. Well, it’s re-written by the losers. Solzhenitsyn points out in one of his books on the Gulag that the Soviets removed from their history ¾ of what really happened. … Continue reading →

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Woman the Glory of Man?

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Paul Harris

You know 1 Cor. 11:7, “For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man”, doesn’t mean that women exists to glorify us. … Continue reading →

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Don’t Let the Old Man In

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Paul Harris

One of my sister’s sent me the link to the song named above on my birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc5AWImplfE.[i]  Give it a listen. You need to be a certain age to really appreciate it. My older brother said: He sneaks in. My older … Continue reading →

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