The View from This Seat

Forty years ago, in his World Day for Peace message on January 1, 1972, Pope Paul VI declared, “ If you want Peace, work for Justice. ” Tho...

Howard Thurman was an outstanding theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. On this day after Christmas, we would do well to read and ...

Naomi, my seven-year-old granddaughter, believes in Santa Claus, as do many children her age. My son Ken, wonders what to say to Naom...

December 15, 1791, is an important date in the history of this country. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution were officially...

His death 43 years ago today, on December 10, 1968, was a tragic one. I am speaking of the accidental death of Thomas Merton, the famou...

President Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy.” He was referring, of course, to how Pearl Harbor “was sudde...

Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (2009) is the title of a book by New York University professor Richar...