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Daniel Harrell

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Daniel M. Harrell is Senior Minister of The Colonial Church, Edina, Minnesota. For 23 years he served as a minister at Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He is author of the forthcoming How To Be Perfect: One Church's Audacious Experiment in Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus (FaithWords, 2011) and of Nature's Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith (Abingdon, 2008). His articles have appeared in Christianity Today, The Christian Century as well as online at patheos.com, biologos.com and beliefnet.com. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and daughter.

Works by Daniel Harrell

Signs of the Apocalypse

Daniel Harrell | November 18, 2014

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Adam and Science: A Possible Compromise

Daniel Harrell | September 24, 2014

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Fear Not

Daniel Harrell | September 17, 2014

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How I Learned to Find Beauty in Creation

Daniel Harrell | September 10, 2014

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Interpretation and Humility

Daniel Harrell | September 03, 2014

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The Devil's in the Application

Daniel Harrell | August 27, 2014

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Ferocious Originality

Daniel Harrell | August 20, 2014

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Take a Seat

Daniel Harrell | August 13, 2014

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Eternity is a Long Time

Daniel Harrell | August 06, 2014

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Call the Doctor

Daniel Harrell | July 30, 2014

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What About the Fall?

Daniel Harrell | July 23, 2014

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Harmonizing Science & Theology

Daniel Harrell | July 16, 2014

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Basic Math

Daniel Harrell | July 09, 2014

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Expectation of Suffering

Daniel Harrell | July 03, 2014

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Incarnational Hermeneutics

Daniel Harrell | July 02, 2014

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Your Summer Reading

Daniel Harrell | June 26, 2014

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Wonder

Daniel Harrell | June 25, 2014

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I Think I'm Going to be Sick

Daniel Harrell | June 18, 2014

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Love

Daniel Harrell | June 12, 2014

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Does Quantum Physics Support Open Theism?

Daniel Harrell | June 11, 2014

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How Evolution Makes Us Better Interpreters of Scripture

Daniel Harrell | June 04, 2014

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The Bible Tells Me So

Daniel Harrell | May 28, 2014

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Tension

Daniel Harrell | May 21, 2014

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Divine Intervention vs Divine Involvement

Daniel Harrell | May 14, 2014

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Everyday Prayers

Daniel Harrell | May 07, 2014

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Would a Clone Have a Soul?

Daniel Harrell | April 30, 2014

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A Very Difficult Teaching

Daniel Harrell | April 16, 2014

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Who Do People Say That I Am?

Daniel Harrell | April 09, 2014

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The Goldfinch

Daniel Harrell | April 03, 2014

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Silence

Daniel Harrell | March 26, 2014

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Bestseller

Daniel Harrell | March 12, 2014

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Evocative

Daniel Harrell | March 05, 2014

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Whatever You Do

Daniel Harrell | February 26, 2014

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Just Work

Daniel Harrell | February 12, 2014

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Gladys, Starbucks, and Steve: Finding Calling in the...

Daniel Harrell | February 05, 2014

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Establishing One’s I-ness

Daniel Harrell | January 29, 2014

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Love Descended: Preaching Soren Kierkegaard

Daniel Harrell | July 01, 2012

To "deny yourself" is not to deprive yourself, but to give yourself to God by giving......

Imitating Christ: Preaching Thomas a Kempis

Daniel Harrell | June 24, 2012

To love Christ more than all things and imitate him will bring scorn and persecution......

The Restoration of All Things: Preaching Irenaeus of Lyons

Daniel Harrell | December 26, 2011

Irenaeus of Lyons was one of the first to behold the full glory and grace of the......

Get a "Martyr Complex": Preaching Ignatius of Antioch

Daniel Harrell | December 19, 2011

We often chide people for having a "martyr complex" -- but didn't Jesus call us to bear......

Pray with Imagination: Preaching Ignatius of Loyola

Daniel Harrell | December 12, 2011

Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, offered what may be the deepest......

A Frail Rib with Mystical Lungs: Preaching Hildegard of...

Daniel Harrell | September 25, 2011

Hildegard of Bingen -- visionary, musician, author, critic -- found confidence in being......

Fly Hand in Hand to Heaven:Preaching George Herbert

Daniel Harrell | September 04, 2011

Seventeenth-century pastor and poet George Herbert rose from humble beginnings to an......

The Glory of the Messiah: Preaching George Frideric Handel

Daniel Harrell | August 28, 2011

Handel broke the rules and set scripture to modern music. The resulting piece has......

The Peril and Promise of Church Politics: Preaching...

Daniel Harrell | August 14, 2011

Church politics can be a deeply depressing affair. Yet it can also change the world....

The Reward of the Seeking Is the Seeking Itself: Preaching...

Daniel Harrell | August 07, 2011

Gregory of Nyssa reminds us of the yearning, the sweetness, and the significance of......

The Greatness of Humility: Preaching Gregory the Great

Daniel Harrell | July 31, 2011

One of the doctors of the Latin church, Gregory the Great was amongst the greatest......

The Trinity is Our Identity: Preaching Gregory...

Daniel Harrell | July 17, 2011

What does it mean that we are made in the image of the Triune God?...

Meet Joel Osteen's Forefather, Charles Finney

Daniel Harrell | July 10, 2011

Did the great nineteenth-century revivalist infect American Christianity with the......

An Instrument of Your Peace: Preaching Francis of Assisi

Daniel Harrell | July 04, 2011

What if the way to the Kingdom of God is much simpler than we make it out to be?...

Jesus Didn't Die to Make Your Life Easy: Preaching...

Daniel Harrell | June 26, 2011

Following Jesus can be hazardous to your health....

Poet of the Descending Road: T. S. Eliot

Daniel Harrell | June 19, 2011

Such is the way of descent. No one wants rock bottom, but everyone wants solid rock....

Theologian of Trinitarian Love: Preaching Jonathan Edwards

Daniel Harrell | June 12, 2011

According to this 18th-century preacher, Trinitarian love is manifest in redemption that......

Being Known by God: Preaching Meister Eckhart

Daniel Harrell | June 05, 2011

While chances are good that you may never have heard of Meister Eckhart, you have heard......

Bowels of Hell, Heights of Heaven: Preaching Dante...

Daniel Harrell | May 30, 2011

What if Dante is still a worthy guide to the afterlife, and to the life we ought to live......

Science is Not the Enemy

Daniel Harrell | April 18, 2011

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To an Unknown God: Preaching Dionysius the Areopagite

Daniel Harrell | March 27, 2011

Maybe we have to un-know God in order to know God....

Peacemakers Rock the Boat: Preaching Catherine of Siena

Daniel Harrell | March 07, 2011

Catherine of Siena found the peace of God not in quiescence, but in going with Christ......

Preacher's Bookshelf: Preaching (and Living) Leviticus

Daniel Harrell | February 28, 2011

Taking Leviticus seriously means paying attention to God in every part of our lives....

Preaching Calvin: "He Drew Me Out of the Abyss"

Daniel Harrell | February 21, 2011

Calvinist double-predestination raises tough questions. But it emerged from concerns......

The Venerable Bede: The Meeting of Mercy and Justice

Daniel Harrell | February 08, 2011

In a treasury of great sermons, ranked right after the Sermon on the Mount and Peter and......

John Chrysostom: Job, the Devil, and the Path of Holiness

Daniel Harrell | January 31, 2011

Chrysostom asserted that the devil is not currently vanquished because you need him. If......

Benedictine Rules: Finding Communion through Community

Daniel Harrell | January 17, 2011

A Monday sermon on the pursuit of God together....

Preaching Bernard of Clairvaux: First Kisses and the...

Daniel Harrell | January 10, 2011

The ecstasies and exhilaration of human love can still point us beyond our own temporary......

Preaching Aquinas: The Divine Image Summons You Home

Daniel Harrell | December 13, 2010

Thomas Aquinas gave the church a profound understanding of the relation between......

Preaching Anselm: How Should We Understand God?

Daniel Harrell | December 06, 2010

Anselm of Canterbury offered one of the most creative answers to one of life's hardest......

Preaching Augustine on the Problem of Evil

Daniel Harrell | November 29, 2010

A Monday sermon for pastors: What does Augustine, one of the Church's greatest......

Ambrose: Does Celibacy Still Have Value?

Daniel Harrell | November 22, 2010

A Monday sermon for pastors: Is there still value in the ancient ideal of the celibate......

Athanasius and the Goodness of God

Daniel Harrell | November 10, 2010

Can theology be preached? Can ancient theologians be made current? What can we learn......

Living the law -- Virtually

Daniel Harrell | August 17, 2009

One church's experiment with social networking...

Evolution as Witness

Daniel Harrell | July 30, 2009

A new book challenges the notion that evolution is an embarrassment for those who......

Why Are You an Evangelical #2

Daniel Harrell | July 30, 2009

We ask Daniel Harrell, pastor at Park Street Church in Boston, why he is an evangelical......

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