The View from This Seat

The Economist is a premier magazine which has been published continuously for 175 years now. Each year in December it publishes an issue ab...

Five days ago I posted a blog article about Charles Dickens’s famous novella “A Christmas Carol.” This article is about a powerful Christ...

For 175 years now, Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol has delighted, and inspired, people throughout the English-speaking world. ...

For more than 60 years now I have had an affectionate relationship with Jewell. No, this Jewell is not a woman; rather it is how William Je...

As the author of a book titled Fed Up with Fundamentalism and of a soon-to-be-published book whose last chapter is about grace, I am happy...

Advent Decoration Rainbow Mennonite Church This past Sunday, Dec. 2, was the first Sunday of Advent in the liturgical calendar of the C...

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...