The View from This Seat

I am discouraged. Specifically, I am discouraged about the political situation in the United States. A wave of discouragement hit me last ...

This posting is a continuation of what I wrote last time about the Justice Summit at William Jewell College last weekend. One of the most i...

Last Friday and Saturday the Center for Justice and Sustainability (CJS) at William Jewell College sponsored their first annual Justice Su...

My previous posting was “In Praise of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” and this posting is being made on what should have been his eighty-first b...

I have long been a fan of Martin Luther King, Jr. I thrill every time I hear his “I Have a Dream” speech. I am moved whenever I read his wri...

One Thinking Friend (Craig D.) wrote (and doesn’t he write eloquently!) in response to my previous posting about the “struggle over the def...

Progress doesn’t have as good a reputation as it used to. There was a time when it seemed evident to most people in the Western world and in...