The View from This Seat

Soon after posting my February 16 blog article in which I referred to Diana Butler Bass, I read Bass’s latest newsletter on her Substack blo...

Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks by public theologian Diana Butler Bass is an impressive book that I finished reading a fe...

This month, as is February every year, is widely recognized as Black History Month. But this year, Black history is being both attacked and ...

When it comes to knowledge of the physical world, science always wins. That doesn’t mean that science is always right. Sometimes it is wrong...

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...