Category Archives: Families

Three Little Words

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

I’m convinced. The criteria people use to evaluate candidates for the pastoral office are just moribund. They are not even so last century or the century before that. They aren’t even so last millennia; they are the one before it. … Continue reading →

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The Visit I Didn’t Want to Make – Cowboy Church

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

I didn’t even want to write up this account of my 2019 visit to a Cowboy Church in Bryan, Texas.

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If You’re Going to Run Through the Bosporus Give Heed to CCR

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

This article was published in Christian News, June 8, 2020. I couldn’t find an online edition so I offer it here for those interested.

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You Won’t Believe this Communion Statement!

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

I freely admit this is clickbait, but it’s also true. The following story shows how it’s possible to go from Closed to Communion to Open in less than a generation. Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church was founded in 1985 by … Continue reading →

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Displaying Sins like Sodom

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

“The expression of their faces bears witness against them. And they display their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it.” So says Isaiah 3:9. This passage came to mind as I watched a show involving all flavors on … Continue reading →

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Believing as Bludgeoning

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

To anyone who has memories of WW II and certainly those who remember the Depression, what is going on now probably seems like an overreacting at best or a “Chicken-littleing” at worst. People are definitely unnerved and some are undone. … Continue reading →

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Bucket Lists, Binge Watching, and Social Distancing

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

It’s intriguing how quickly people adopt the latest way of labeling something. It becomes a shibboleth to me gauging how close one is to the world around them. This may be too strident of a judgment, something Logia editors said … Continue reading →

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Nothing New Under the Sun

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

We think everything has changed with the advent of the Internet in the late 1997 and the Smartphone in 2007. No, the smartest man in the world said there was nothing new under the son, and this tidbit from over … Continue reading →

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Visit to a Methodist Church – Is there Methodism in this Madness?

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

This sure didn’t seem like the mainline liberal, bang-the-social-gospel-gong church, I expected to find. I found the Gospel here, liturgy (low church but liturgy nonetheless), and no contemporary worship.