The View from This Seat

A good friend recently wrote, “My usual optimism is fading.” I responded, “I am sorry to hear that your optimism is waning—but that is not n...

This blog article was supposed to be about hope—at least that was my plan for this post. But the hopes of so many USAmericans are at the poi...

Last month, a Facebook friend posted the poem “The Touch of the Master’s Hand,” a poem I remember reading and using in sermons, in the 1950s...

The impetus for this article came from seeing the following optical illusion on Facebook last month:  What do you think? Are the blue bars a...

Francis Bellamy, who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892, was the subject of my August 30 blog post. In that article, I mentioned that Be...

Why do people give money to needy people or public causes? Why should people make charitable or philanthropic contributions? What is altruis...

He was born 160 years ago on October 4, 1861, the first year of the Civil War, and died in 1918, a few months before the end of World War I,...