The View from This Seat

What are the most important years in world history over the last 200 years? For those of us in the U.S., no doubt 1941 and 1945, the begin...

Last month ( here ) I made reference to the second chapter of Miguel De La Torre’s disturbing book Embracing Hopelessness (2017). This art...

Pope Francis designated this past Sunday as World Day of the Poor. It was the second of what will likely be an ongoing, and expanding, obse...

Ed Chasteen is a friend I first met over 40 years ago, and tomorrow (Nov. 16) he is celebrating his 83 rd birthday. This article was writt...

This blog article is the 30 th and last one based on my forthcoming book Thirty True Things Everyone Needs to Know Now (TTT) . I will be ...

Since my hometown is Grant City (Mo.), I have long had an interest in, but not much knowledge of, Ulysses S. Grant. My recent reading about...

[The following is a "letter to the editor," published ( here ) by Baptist News Global on Oc. 30 and is posted here as an "ex...