Category Archives: Families

Ugly Betty

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Paul Harris

Betty isn’t ugly but we are making her that way.  In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when Father Christmas is handing out gifts he gives to Susan a bow and a quiver full of arrows and a bow … Continue reading →

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“Hopelessness”

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Paul Harris

There is a phenomenon airline pilots experience after flying all night.  They fly through the blackness awake, alert, and able, but when the sun pops over their horizon they instantly become sleepy.  This is counterintuitive but not contrary to experience.

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“Eve of Destruction”

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Paul Harris

If you’re listening to the financiers, bankers, and politicians, we’re teetering on the brink.  They’re saying what Barry McGuire sang in his inimitable voice: it’s the “Eve of Destruction.”  Barry wanted everyone twisted in knots over war, racism, and nuclear … Continue reading →

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Female Elders

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Paul Harris

You’ll recall that the 2004 Convention said that woman can be elders as long as it doesn’t involve them in the function or accountability of the pastoral office. As of 31 July 2008 three of the nine elders at Trinity, … Continue reading →

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Father Knows Best?

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Paul Harris

   It starts with fat, old Eli.  He is a lousy father.  Scripture records that Eli honored his sons above the Lord.  He would not properly discipline them for despising the offering of the Lord and for sleeping with the … Continue reading →

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The Lioness’s Share

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Paul Harris

G.K. Chesterton said that “every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things” (The New Jerusalem, 211.) 

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You Can Learn a lot from women, so Don’t Sacrifice them

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Paul Harris

There are shows aimed at men and shows at women.  While, as far as I know, no one has thought of a derisive term for movies aimed at men such as “Male Movie” or “Testosterone Tape,” we do have the … Continue reading →

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You’re Just a Kid!

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Paul Harris

“You’re just a kid!” O how age can be made an accusation.

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The Sin Nobody Talks About

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Paul Harris

Having recently published a letter, I didn’t think The Lutheran Witness would, I decided to publish this article Higher Things wouldn’t.  To be fair, it’s not that they didn’t think it worthwhile.  They just thought it too risky, perhaps risque.  You decide … Continue reading →

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Lutheran Education

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Paul Harris

  Our Large Catechism addresses the education of our children under the Fourth Commandment: “For all authority flows and is propagated from the authority of parents. For where a father is unable alone to educate his child, he employs a … Continue reading →

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