by Colin Harris | Dec 2, 2019 | Opinion
There has been no lack of comment and analysis in response to the rare, even unique experience of the U.S. House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry and open hearings. The interplay of competing narratives, the contrasts between the...
by Colin Harris | Nov 22, 2019 | Opinion
Interest in the public debut of the film, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” has reminded me of some fun we used to have in an “Introduction to Religion” course over the years. When discussion would emerge on how religion functioned in the media, we would...
by Colin Harris | Nov 4, 2019 | Opinion
“Exile” is a very negative word, conjuring up images of forced deportation and political banishment. Even in the milder forms of some traditions’ practice of “shunning” those who have misbehaved, a kind of social and psychological exile alienates one from the...
by Colin Harris | Oct 28, 2019 | Opinion
There is no joy in an impeachment process. Oh, there are the occasional “gotcha” moments, when evidence verifies suspicions of someone else’s wrongdoing, but the fact of the process itself is a sad acknowledgement of something gone seriously wrong in the body politic....
by Colin Harris | Oct 8, 2019 | Opinion
Borrowing the title of Mitch Albom’s popular reflections on his visits with a beloved mentor, my thoughts from my regular visits with the prophet Jeremiah in some ways mirror his. Words and insights from others can have a profound effect on how we see the world and...
