The View from This Seat

My posting on Father’s Day was partly about gender equality, and now I want to share some more thoughts on that important subject. When I wr...

Soon after posting “More Thoughts about the Afterlife” on June 15, I made a contribution for the upkeep of New Hope Cemetery in response to ...

As you know, today is Father’s Day in the U.S. and in many other countries around the world, so Happy Father’s Day to all of you fathers wh...

That noted theologian Woody Allen is reported to have said, “Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow men, I’d prefer to liv...

Harold S. Kushner became widely known after the publication of his best-selling book When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981). Last yea...

June 2 was the beginning of “Edinburgh 2010,” a five-day conference marking the 100th anniversary of the World Missionary Conference of 1910...

June and I are nearing the end of our last full day in Japan, and I am posting this in the hotel near Tokyo International Airport (Narita) w...