Category Archives: Families

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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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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Devil’s Night

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Paul Harris

When I had a parish in in the City of Detroit in the late 80s, Devil’s Night was a feared Halloween Eve tradition. Pranks, vandalism, and crimes were up as youth ran wild. That’s how it was billed and the … Continue reading →

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Even Pagans and Zombies Get It

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Paul Harris

I’m watching a bit more TV and movies, and falling asleep a lot more to documentaries and reality shows now that I’ve retired. Who knew there were whole shows devoted to lumberjacks, pawnbrokers, car customizers, and swamp people? Not to … Continue reading →

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Social Media – The Unrest of the Younger Generation

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Paul Harris

In a 1936 essay entitled “The Literary Twenties – The Younger Generation” a New York literary critic, Carl Van Doren, looks back at the generation of the 1920’s which he was on the cusp of. Among his pearls of wisdom … Continue reading →

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Giving away the Farm – Part II

Posted on December 2, 2024 by Paul Harris

In the February 22, 2024 post, I promised this. There I posted the 1993 essay mailed to me at that time, and probably most conservative Lutherans.  The booklet was titled “A second opinion after ‘The Church and Human Sexuality” (The … Continue reading →

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Reportage or Fearmongering?

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Paul Harris

I was going to title this “Fake News and Battle of the Bulge” in homage to St. Merv. Merv was with the 101st Airborne at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. “Band of Brothers” is his story. We were … Continue reading →

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Politically Incorrect and Beyond

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Paul Harris
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