by Colin Harris | Jan 23, 2018 | Opinion
It had been a while since I stopped by Jeremiah’s place to get his take on our current situation. In our last conversation, a year and a half ago, he identified some features of pre-exilic Judah that had an eerie similarity to what we were experiencing at the...
by Colin Harris | Jan 12, 2018 | Opinion
Martin Luther King Jr., is a cultural hero, and deservedly so. His role in the long and arduous drama of the civil rights struggle is recognized and celebrated around the country and internationally. He is noted and quoted even by the political heirs of those who...
by Colin Harris | Jan 3, 2018 | Opinion
Ethics has to do with choosing – what we choose, how we choose, why we choose. From the simplest of decisions about daily behaviors to the most comprehensive choices of ideologies that frame our understandings of the world, those choices set the trajectory of...
by Colin Harris | Dec 18, 2017 | Opinion
The Advent season of anticipation invites us to see four common features of our human experience through a deeper and longer lens. Hope becomes more than an optimistic expectation of good circumstances and is rooted in a deeper trust in the one who promises to be...
by Colin Harris | Dec 12, 2017 | Opinion
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at the 69th anniversary of its proclamation by the United Nations General Assembly, will probably take a place in history among other classics of political philosophy. These include the Covenant Code of ancient Israel (Exodus...