The View from This Seat

Reflections about Life, Love, Light, and Liberty (the 4-Ls) by Leroy Seat.

Friday, October 10, 2025

What Does It Mean to Love One’s Enemies?

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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...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Considering, Sadly, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

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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...
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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Analyzing Assassination Culture

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The news media and the internet have been awash with news and opinions about the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk last week. I was amazed that ...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Celebrating Sun Day 2025

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Earth Day is widely known as an annual event first held on April 22, 1970, and observed on that day every year since. But this year, Sun Day...
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Friday, August 29, 2025

“Gaza Doesn't Need Our Tears, It Needs Our Anger”

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Recent U.N. reports about extensive starvation and incipient famine in Gaza spurred me to write this article about the current crisis there ...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Why Disillusionment Can Be a Good Thing

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  Like many people, I have generally thought of disillusionment as being something "bad," but in a recent sermon, my pastor talked...
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Saturday, August 9, 2025

What about Pastors Promoting Politicians?

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Last month, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service stated that churches and/or pastors could endorse candidates running for political office, des...
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* Born in Grant City, Mo., on 8/15/1938 * Graduated from Southwest Baptist College (Bolivar, Mo.) in 1957 (A.A.) * Graduated from William Jewell College (Liberty, Mo.) in 1959 (A.B.) * Graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Ken.) in 1962 (B.D., equivalent of M.Div.) * Received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in theology from SBTS. * Baptist missionary to Japan from 1966 to 2004. * Full-time faculty member at Seinan Gakuin University (Fukuoka, Japan) from 1968 to 2004. * Chancellor of Seinan Gakuin from 1996 to 2004. * Adjunct professor at Rockhurst University 2006 to 2014. USPS address: 1307 Canterbury Lane, Liberty, MO 64068 Telephone: (301) 442-2263 E-mail: LKSeat@gmail.com
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