The View from This Seat

Recently I have been reading/thinking about the ReAwaken America Tour (RAT) here in the U.S. I have become even more alarmed about RAT after...

There is a difference between seeing (or “seeing that”) and “seeing as.” That difference is due to aspect perception according to the noted ...

It is only 19 days until the midterm elections in the U.S., and since there are some who will be voting early (and some may have already vot...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker was a Pulitzer Prize winning novel and Stephen Spielberg’s 1985 movie by the same name was nominated for e...

On March 31 last year, The Economist published an article about “Sinifying Christianity ,” that is, seeking to make Chinese Christians more...

Peter Abplanalp, one of my great-great-grandfathers, was born 225 years ago yesterday, on October 4, 1797. He died in January 1879 and is bu...

Tomorrow is the first day of October, and it was in October 1962 that the world came closest to being engulfed in nuclear war. But currently...