The View from This Seat

Much of what most of us learned as children about the first Thanksgiving Day in what became the United States was wrong. And it seems that s...

Last week I finished the first draft of the second five-page chapter for my next book Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things Every...

It is hard not to be defensive. When one's ideas or, even more, when one's personhood is being attacked or criticized it is hard not...

Chris Thompson raised a very significant issue in his comments about my posting on Nov. 6. Even though those comments were based on a misund...

James Cone is an extremist. But that is probably OK. As has often been said, some people have to go too far [to an extreme] to get other peo...

Dr. Eboo Patel is an impressive young man. (I say young, for he was born in 1975 and that makes him seem quite young to me.) Eboo is the ...

One of the most significant books I have read in the last forty years is Kierkegaard and Radical Discipleship (1968) by Church of the Bret...