The View from This Seat

It is, thankfully, just nine days until Election Day. Earlier in the year this was touted as one of the most important elections in U.S. hi...

As a boy growing up in rural northwest Missouri, St. Joseph was the nearest big city and a place of fascination to me. As a schoolboy I no ...

As almost everyone knows, President Abraham Lincoln began his famous Gettysburg Address, “Four score and seven years ago.” Eighty-seven yea...

Not many books on my “To Read” list are 500 years old, but Utopia was on that list until I read it recently. “Utopia” was a term coined by...

The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation  was the first movie to be shown in the White House. Based on The Clansman , Thomas Dixon’s 1905 novel,...

Last week as I was having coffee with friends, I mentioned that I was really enjoying Philip Yancey’s book Soul Survivor: How My Faith Surv...

October 2, 2006. You doubtlessly remember the terrible tragedy that occurred ten years ago on that date in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. You ...