The View from This Seat

In this year’s first blog post, I wrote some about the ancient idea of memento mori . (If you didn’t see or don’t remember that, click here ...

Here is my 1,001 st blog post—and I have been wanting to write this since making the Dec. 26 post that was largely based on Habakkuk 3:17....

So, as announced last week, here is my 1,000 th blog post, including the first tentative one I made in July 2009. I am posting this with de...

This blog post is being made not long after the beginning of the year 2023—and today is the beginning of the end. In just 360 days, this yea...

Today is New Year’s Eve in the Western world, but as I have done in previous years, I am posting this after the new year has already begun i...

 Yesterday was Christmas Day, the first time for Christmas to be on a Sunday since 2016—and the next time won’t be until 2033. On the week b...

In this last blog post before Christmas, I am writing about the central message of Christmas and also writing about what I want both those o...