The View from This Seat

To put it mildly, I am not a big fan of Calvinism. It came as a surprise, then, when I learned that a noted contemporary theologian and pro...

Having looked at the appeal of fundamentalism last month, this article takes a look at the other side of the issue. This is the fifth posti...

In the last few years, Fred Heeren has become a good friend of mine, although we don’t spend a lot of time together. When we do have time t...

Many of you are familiar with the name Richard Rohr, the Franciscan friar who was born in Kansas in 1943 and who has long lived in New Mexi...

This article was first conceived upon receiving an email from a Thinking Friend in rural northwest Missouri--a man who lives less than five...

Although I am usually not willing to spend the time and especially the money to attend live performances, I am very fond of classical music...

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