The View from This Seat

Emperor Hirohito of Japan, properly known as Emperor Showa, died in 1989. His successor, Emperor Akihito, is abdicating the Chrysanthemum T...

Since fundamentalism has been so widespread and influential in the past decades, its popularity must surely be because there are many peop...

In this article I am sharing some reflections on Episcopal Bishop Jake Owensby’s book, A Resurrection-Shaped Life: Dying and Rising on Pla...

Kondo ( 近藤、 pronounced like cone-dough) is a rather common name in Japan, but thanks to Marie ( 麻理恵 , pronounced in Japanese like mah-rhee-e...

For many years I have been an admirer of Shane Claiborne, author of several books and leader of “new monastic” Christians who go by the na...

Although most of this blog’s readers likely do not know/remember his name, this article was prompted by the death of C. Norman Kraus a year...

This article is somewhat related to the one I posted on 9/20/17 , which has garnered more than 1,050 pageviews, and to the fifth chapter of...