Category Archives: For Anyone who dares

Maybe Quantum Mechanics is On to Something

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Paul Harris

Stop right here. I’m no scientist. I don’t have a scientific mind or bent. I’ve never had one course in physics. You are free to go no further or to proceed to see if I make a fool of myself. … Continue reading →

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We Have Only Just Begun to Redact

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Paul Harris

I don’t know how you feel about the removal of Confederate personalities from the pages of history and town squares of southern cities and commons of southern colleges, but it is proceeding apace. I am conflicted.

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Sola Structura

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Paul Harris

This may be an apocryphal story, but I was told my someone that the sainted Herman Sasse and Kurt Maquart were attending the vaunted Vatican II Council. As things were going on and on and on about this or that … Continue reading →

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On Exploded Ordinance

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Paul Harris

If you drive about a major military installation, you will find signs warning you to be aware of live ordinance. An EOD, Explosive Ordinance Disposal, officer told me in 1993 that every year around Fort Hood someone is injured or … Continue reading →

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The Eww Factor Isn’t it

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Paul Harris

Joe Dallas, former homosexual activist, now married, father, and family advocate calls it the “Ick Factor” (Speaking of Homosexuality, 32). “Eww” is what comes to my mine. Choose whatever exclamation you will, Christians need to recognize that when it comes … Continue reading →

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Politics and Peeing on New Hay – Rerun

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Paul Harris

This is not deja vu. You might have read this in May of 2008; you could have read it in 1998. Think of this as my Carthago delenda est. I am republishing because both at the district and synodical level the political … Continue reading →

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What’s all this fuss about Self-Identifying?

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Paul Harris

I think the fuss started when the leader of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP stepped down after self-identifying as a black person. You can, indeed, should and must, self-identify your gender, and a pox on your house if you … Continue reading →

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What do Seminex, Kloha, and ELDONA have in common?

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Paul Harris

The answer to this query comes from me, but it is based on an article written by the Reverend Doctor David Scaer. It is good to know not everyone is asleep at the switch at the seminaries, not everyone is … Continue reading →

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Finally Free

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Paul Harris

For 34 years AAL, then Thrivent for Lutherans, then Thrivent for Christians provided me with a desk diary each year, gratias, free of charge, on the arm, or maybe not. It was always in varying shades of red except in … Continue reading →

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Halloween: Not Just for Pagans Anymore

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Paul Harris

This is a bonus blog. It’s a sermon from the year 2000.  It’s always on my website, but because the pamphleteers are out again trying to bind the consciences of Christians, I’m reposting it here.

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