by Colin Harris | May 10, 2017 | Opinion
Covenant relationships live in an ever-present tension. There is the tendency toward a legalism intended to protect the essentials of the relationship and the pull of freedom to experience and discover new levels of the relationship’s meaning. Giving in totally...
by Colin Harris | Apr 13, 2017 | Opinion
The cross of Jesus is not an isolated transaction that changes the divine relationship to humanity. Rather, as I noted yesterday, it seems to be a disclosure of the pattern of God’s relationship to the human family all along. Continuing the reflection on the...
by Colin Harris | Apr 12, 2017 | Opinion
The annual cycle of the church’s participation in the biblical drama keeps alive in our tradition the foundational experiences that make us who we are. In that drama, we are invited to graft our story onto that story, making it our own. Another implicit part of...
by Colin Harris | Mar 23, 2017 | Opinion
Efforts to protect national security by restricting the entrance of persons from other countries have long been used as examples of a lack of the kind of hospitality that is called for in both our American heritage and in the biblical perspective on the significance...
by Colin Harris | Feb 21, 2017 | Opinion
Those of us who tend to see parallels between features of the biblical testimony and contemporary life are having a heyday as we sit in the front row with the national drama of the U.S. on center stage. Those who offer challenges to the drama’s plot and...
