• Creativity in Cold Lentils
• Recovering Hope
• Truth Is A Two-Way Street
• Our chance to stand in solidarity
• Human Rights: a common meeting place?
• The Heart of God
• Dare to Dream
• Learning to Listen
• Finding meaning in the experience
• Towards An Understanding of Home
• Silence
• Peregrinasaun Haksolok Hamutuk
• Peace
• The Big Show
• Weakness and Strength
• United in Peace
• The Ring
• ACUSA
• People as seeds of hope and change
• Being Grateful
• In the midst of 250,000 people
• UN World Habitat Day
• Praying The Rosary
• I Want To Make A Difference
• How Fragile we are
• The Challenge of email
• Being Socially Responsible
• Thirsting for Knowledge
• The Lord is my Shepherd
• Archived Thoughts of the Week
• An Idea

Chris Harris was my first theology lecturer when I studied at McAuley campus some years ago. He was the first person to challenge my understanding of God – the understanding I had as a seventeen year old just out of a Catholic school. He opened my mind to embrace a more dynamic, diverse Being with whom I could enter into relationship. Chris will long live on in my memory. He died on May 13th aged 74.

This is an excerpt from one of his many works. It was read by his son at the funeral and is reprinted with kind permission.

“Towards An Understanding of Home”

"…God leaves traces as a thief who leaves fingerprints and then wipes them away. We suspect that someone has been present by noticing what has not been left behind. In this sense, the other person is a trace of God.

The way to God is, then, oblique. We must deal with the other person directly… we are not called to serve a hidden God, but our neighbour.

The other person is the locus for traces of the infinite, and these are the traces I will find as I live my life."

• Andrew Beiers,
• Mission Engagement,
• Brisbane

Chris Harris (Religious Education, (p438, 442), Vol.90, No.314, Summer/Fall 1995.)