Category Archives: For Anyone who dares

Okay Boomer

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

I always wanted to write something like “The Sunscreen Song” (1999) or better still Gordon Sinclair’s 1973 “The Americans.” However, I would be greeted with the platitudinous insult, “Okay Boomer.” Okay, then, I’ll let someone else do it.

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

You know the aforementioned  story. Here is the first salvo from me about the “new clothes” of psychotropic medicines and the profession behind them. I don’t think many pastors have read Prozac Nation, House of Cards, The Antidepressant Era, or … Continue reading →

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If Video Killed the Radio Star, What has the Internet Killed?

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

               The song “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first video to be played on MTV when the network was launched August 1, 1981. And some pundits and prophets trace all sorts of developments or devolutions from this event. … Continue reading →

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Sunscreen and Hunting

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

A dermatologist told me I should start wearing sunscreen when hunting. I tried it on several hunts and hated it. Why? It’s a mixed message. The distinct odor of sunscreen is evocative of beaches and salt spray, not vegetation and … Continue reading →

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Believer’s Baptism, Communion, and Justification

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

This article written and published by Christian News, November 2020. The introductory remarks, in italics, are from Rev. Phil Hale, the editor.

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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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Sword, Famine, and Coronavirus, O My

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

Read the 19 Bible passages below and tell me that the way of the world is not sword, famine, and pestilence? Christianity and Christians, historically, have stood out in times of pestilence. We were not the man who dressed like a … Continue reading →

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Eight Months Out and Not Dead or Dying

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

A LCMS seminarian told me back in circa 2002 or so: You leave the Synod you die. That’s definitely what you’re led to believe by the churchmen and bureaucrats, who equate to Sauron and Saruman in the Lord of the … Continue reading →

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I Know What Got Sodom So Pi**ed at Lot – Visit to a Metropolitan Community Church

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

P***ed is a vulgarism now accepted by society. There are some expressions the Army uses that are still vulgar and unacceptable to society. Nevertheless, they express accurately certain situations. And it’s accurate to say the people of Sodom were pi**ed … Continue reading →

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Let’s Get Chemical

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

“Let’s get physical, physical…Let me hear your body talk,” sang Oliva Newton-John in 1981. Well, we’ve went a step beyond that. Now the national zeitgeist says “Let’s get chemical, chemical…Let me hear my body talk.”

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