The View from This Seat

No one in this country is unaware that next Tuesday, November 3, is Election Day. Many U.S. citizens have already voted, but what result can...

“The Limits of Liberal Views of World Missions” is the title of the ninth chapter of my book The Limits of Liberalism: A Historical, Theolog...

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. I had long known those words from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s po...

Partly because of the recent deaths of two of my baseball heroes and also because of the need for a change of pace from thinking about polit...

Earlier this year I wrote about removing Confederate statues , and my previous post was about toppling statues of the Franciscan missionary...

Even though he has little name recognition in most circles, this article is about a man of considerable importance in the history of Califor...

Today’s blog post was long planned to be an article about Junípero Serra , who was canonized five years ago on September 23. But then Justi...