John Edward Harris
@jedwardharris.bsky.social
Retired PC(USA) Minister, M.Div., D.Min., Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator, Cyclist, Hiker, Backpacker, Poet, Writer, Mystic
"... the fundamental purpose of prayer, including the prayer of petition, is not to get something from God, or to change God, but to change ourselves." - Thomas Keating
December 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"... the fundamental purpose of prayer, including the prayer of petition, is not to get something from God, or to change God, but to change ourselves." - Thomas Keating
"There are many kinds of prayer and many ways of expressing it. ... to be true prayer, it does not have to be expressed by words or concepts." - Thomas Keating
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"There are many kinds of prayer and many ways of expressing it. ... to be true prayer, it does not have to be expressed by words or concepts." - Thomas Keating
"Everything may change in our demoralized world except the heart, man's love, and his striving to know the divine." - Marc Chagall
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Everything may change in our demoralized world except the heart, man's love, and his striving to know the divine." - Marc Chagall
I will be leading worship and preaching at Zion United Church of Christ, 139 N 5th St, Steubenville, Ohio, most Sundays through April 19, 2026. Worship begins at 10:00 AM
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I will be leading worship and preaching at Zion United Church of Christ, 139 N 5th St, Steubenville, Ohio, most Sundays through April 19, 2026. Worship begins at 10:00 AM
"People who are not even religiously minded have an experience of transcendence now and then, but they do not know how to articulate it" - Thomas Keating
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"People who are not even religiously minded have an experience of transcendence now and then, but they do not know how to articulate it" - Thomas Keating
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More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.
What books shaped you in high school? Here's what you said
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.
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September 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that inspired you to become English majors, librarians, writers and teachers.
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🚨🚨🚨 Rep. Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”
We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Rep. Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”
We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.
I think it is time we start referring to the highest court in the land as "The Unsupreme Court."
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I think it is time we start referring to the highest court in the land as "The Unsupreme Court."
And so begins the summer of our discontent.
June 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And so begins the summer of our discontent.
A good, quick read about the tariffs: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A good, quick read about the tariffs: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
25th for the 47th
April 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
25th for the 47th
He is an economic idiot and #Republicans must pay the price.
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
He is an economic idiot and #Republicans must pay the price.
Trump's terrible #tariffs are tanking financial markets just like they will tank our national economy and eventually the country. Is this what MAGA voted for and expected?
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump's terrible #tariffs are tanking financial markets just like they will tank our national economy and eventually the country. Is this what MAGA voted for and expected?
Bondi announces she is seeking the death penalty for Mangione while she is wearing a very visible gold cross in her filmed announcement!
April 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Bondi announces she is seeking the death penalty for Mangione while she is wearing a very visible gold cross in her filmed announcement!
Anyone else missing the calm, cool, collected, declining inflation, rising stock market days of the final few months of the Biden/Harris administration?
March 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Anyone else missing the calm, cool, collected, declining inflation, rising stock market days of the final few months of the Biden/Harris administration?
The problem is not that members of the National Security Team accidently invited a journalist into their chat which included classified information about an upcoming military operation but that they conducted that chat on a public, unsecure platform in the first place
March 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The problem is not that members of the National Security Team accidently invited a journalist into their chat which included classified information about an upcoming military operation but that they conducted that chat on a public, unsecure platform in the first place
It is looking like another Trump day in Financial Markets.
March 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It is looking like another Trump day in Financial Markets.
Hegseth and the upper chain of command have lost all credibility and support from the boots on the ground, which might make all the difference if push comes to shove.
March 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Hegseth and the upper chain of command have lost all credibility and support from the boots on the ground, which might make all the difference if push comes to shove.
Is Musk's DOGE about to blow up in his face with the political debris of Trump and the Republican Party littering the landscape of the UnitedxStates?
March 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Is Musk's DOGE about to blow up in his face with the political debris of Trump and the Republican Party littering the landscape of the UnitedxStates?
If you have Paramount +, watch an episode from the fourth season of The Twilight Zone entitled "He's Alive" and watch it in light of current politics.
February 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you have Paramount +, watch an episode from the fourth season of The Twilight Zone entitled "He's Alive" and watch it in light of current politics.
I am convinced that Christian Nationalism in the US is idolatrouus, blasphemous, sinful, and heretical.
February 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am convinced that Christian Nationalism in the US is idolatrouus, blasphemous, sinful, and heretical.
With February 23rd's vote at the UN, the US amended all moral principles, and Trump identified himself as an enemy of Democracy, abandoning the Free World to side with Communism.
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
With February 23rd's vote at the UN, the US amended all moral principles, and Trump identified himself as an enemy of Democracy, abandoning the Free World to side with Communism.
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.