by Colin Harris | May 30, 2012 | Opinion
When controversial issues find their way to the table of ethical discussion, it usually isn’t long before the Bible is called to testify on behalf of whichever side is making its case. A commitment to biblical authority seems to be pretty central to Christian...
by Colin Harris | May 16, 2012 | Opinion
It was a childhood game that we played – good guys and bad guys in several versions: cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, reflecting the characters from the city crime shows and western shoot-em-ups of the early TV that we watched. A later generation would take...
by Colin Harris | May 2, 2012 | Opinion
In the late 1960s, the Committee of Southern Churchmen, under the leadership of Will Campbell and James Holloway, conceived and produced a journal with the title Katallegete – Be Reconciled – taken from the Greek imperative in 2 Corinthians 6:20. The committee was a...
by Colin Harris | Apr 19, 2012 | Opinion
This coming Sunday is Earth Day, the 43rd annual reminder of our responsibility to care for our planet and its complex components. Not exactly a day in the Christian calendar, like Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saints Day, but, like other more...
by Colin Harris | Apr 3, 2012 | Opinion
It is a poignant brush stroke in Luke’s portrait of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem at the beginning of that crucial week that led from triumphal reception along the road to rejection and death at the hands of entrenched power. Jesus paused, looking at the...
