The View from This Seat

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.” Those are words from the movie Secondh...

Perhaps many of you don’t remember much (or anything) about Martin of Tours. But he is a man worth recalling, and his commitment to non-viol...

  As some of you may remember, in his 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, Joe Biden stated that “hope and history rhyme,”...

Do you like poetry? I do (to some extent), but I find it hard to read. That is, poetry needs to be read slowly, and I don’t often take the t...

Tyranny is a word that has, unfortunately, been heard often in recent years. The term usually refers to “the usurpation of power by a sing...

It is hard enough to love one’s friends and even harder to love others as we love ourselves. But how can we love our enemies? In both the Se...

Most of you are familiar with the phrase “the Trail of Tears.” Perhaps many of you, though, don’t remember hearing anything about the Treaty...