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The Christian Community in Society
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As We Think
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Life's Biggest Blessings - A Large Family
Proverbs 31
Shooting with Sons
The Anointing
The Band Dad
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A Christian View of Marriage
A Land Called Married
A Sense of Time and Place
A Tale of Two Women
Accuse at Your Own Risk
Adventures in Athens - How We Treat Others
Anger and the Christian
Are We Special?
Controlling Conflict
Discrimination
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Do We Hate Our Bodies?
Fasting in the Bible
Getting People to Answer
Learning Many Ways to Communicate
On Disagreements
Open Windows
Our Mechanistic Minds
Physical Beauty and the Christian
Preunderstandings and Presuppositions
Purging Prejudice
Simple Sabotage
Silence and Solitude in the Bible
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Slaves to the Numbers
Song of Songs - The Mystery and Majesty of Human Love
Spiritual Formation and the Nature of Man
Texting Between Father and Son - the Nature of Causation
The Bible and the Nature of Man
The Death of a Friend
The Fundamental Problem of Human Existence
Third Date Sex
True to Each Other
Understanding Authority
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What Happens When a Person Dies?
What to do with Tradition
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Where Are You From?
Who is Responsible?
Why Talk?

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The Love and Immutability of God
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Unbelief
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Marketing Myopia
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Political Correctness and Cultural Sensitivity
Religion and the Workplace
Taking Intelligence Threats Seriously
Task Automation and Jobs
The Dance of the Headquarters
The Informative Brief
The Long Shadow - How to Follow a Superstar
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Using the Military Decision-Making Process in Civilian Organizations
Why Do People Do What They Do?

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Some Differences in Life Between the Ancient and Modern Worlds
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Communion on the Moon
Destinations and Apps for the Natural World
Fighting Fires
Fire and Rescue Training
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Medical Preparation for Humanitarian Missions
Moving With Little Trace
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Riding Along
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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
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Surfing the Nations
Useful Quotations on Aviation and Space

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A Theology of Missions
Acts as Theological History
Adoniram Judson - A Simple Man Used Mightily by a Mighty God
Christian Apology in the Second Century
Christianity as Portrayed by the World
Fathers of the Church - Leaders of Early Post Apostolic Christianity
God's Design for Men and Women in the Church
Key Concepts of Paul in Salvation - Romans
Paul's Conversion - Why Three Accounts and How Do They Differ?
Paul's Life - Background and Chronology
Paul's Missionary Journeys
Preparation for the Reformation
Pseudonymity, Pseudepigraphy, and the New Testament
Restoring Apostate Christians During Roman Persecutions
Revitalizing a Local Church
Sacralism and Calvin's Geneva
The Benedictines
The Conversion of Augustine
The Growing Church
The Early Church - From Movement to Organization
Useful Greek and Roman Quotations
Useful Latin Sayings
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Articles from Mark D. Harris (Colonel (ret) US Army, MD, MPH, MBA, MDiv, PhD, ThM, DECBA) on other websites
- ACSM's Sports Medicine: A Comprehensive Review (textbook 2013) - Chapter 33 (pages 211-219) - Infectious Disease and the Athlete, Revision in progress 2022
- American College of Sports Medicine (2010 Annual Meeting slide presentation) - Persistent Knee Swelling in an Adolescent (PVS)
- American Family Physician - 1) Bioterrorism and the Vital Role of Family Physicians, 2) High Altitude Medicine
- American Journal of Medicine - Vaccinating health care workers against smallpox in an isolated primary care facility
- Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine - Laser Eye Injuries in Military Occupations
- - Baghdad Now (2003-2004) - 1) 1AD Docs Bring Advanced Obstetrics Knowledge to Iraqi Physicians (15 Nov 2003), 2) A Healthy Weight (15-30 April 2004), 3) Alcohol Abuse (1-15 April 2004)
Black Belt Magazine (Dec 2015/Jan 2016) - How to Maintain Your Ankle Health
Current Sports Medicine Reports - Infectious Disease in Athletes
David Platt's Radical - 1) A Loving and Unpopular Message, 2) Animism and the Mixing of Religions
Conference on Polar and Alpine Medicine - Altitude Medicine - Explorer's Club, 25 Sep 1999 (Sponsors - Frederick A Cook Society, Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society, Wilderness Medical Society, The Byrd Polar Research Center Archives) Journal Polar Priorities - presenter and author
International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management - Societal stability, public health and primary care as three pillars of defence in biosecurity
Loma Linda University School of Medicine Alumni Journal - 1) Perspective: From ORU to LLU, July/Aug 1991, 2) What Makes a Christian Medical School Distinct? May-Aug 2016
Military Medicine - 1) Comparison of Nondeployable Hearing Profiles by Army Component (Active Duty, National Guard, and Reserve) and by Gender, 2) Hearing Threshold Comparisons between 2001–02 NHANES and 2003–05 Fort Bliss U.S. Army Service Components, 3) Medical Reference Databases Used by Army Primary Care Physicians in Field Environments, 4) Modeling Hospital Response to Mild and Severe Influenza Pandemic Scenarios under Normal and Expanded Capacities, 5) Preventive Medicine in Task Force First Armored Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Running Medicine (textbook, 2014) - Chapter 30 - Infectious Disease in the Runner, Revision in progress 2022
Springer Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion - 1) Sexuality and the Chinese Religions, 2) Sexuality and the Hebrew Bible, 3) Sexuality and Hinduism, 4) Sexuality and Islam
Stars and Stripes - 1) Hygiene crucial in Iraq, health experts say, 2) U.S. Army doctors helping repair damage done to medicine in Iraq
The 5 Minute Sports Medicine Consult (textbook, 2011, revision 2019) - Periorbital and Orbital Cellulitis

Mark D. Harris, COL (Ret), US Army, SFS,
MD, MPH, MBA, MDiv, PhD, ThM, DECBA
3DanTKD, Firefighter, Fire and Disaster Chaplain
Chairman RCWVGOP 2019-2021, WVGOP 2021-2022
Associate Pastor, Memorial Baptist Church, Beckley WV

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