The View from This Seat

Although it is still December 31 here in the U.S., rather than making this post at around 5:30 a.m., as I normally do, I am posting it at 9:...

Just over 50 years ago, Vernard Eller, the eminent Anabaptist scholar, published a book titled The Most Revealing Book in the Bible . It was...

Christmas Eve is just two weeks from today, and the popular Christmas carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem” will be sung in many Christian chur...

In June 2015, I posted my first blog article on trans people, and my 5/20/16 blog post was titled Tempest in a Pee Pot . This issue has been...

On a Sunday evening in November 1954, I drove the 13 miles from the farm where I lived with my parents and little sister to the Baptist chur...

This is not the article I planned to write for this month’s first blog post. “Expressing Congratulations (and Sincere Sympathy) to Pres. Har...

Although several of you USAmerican Thinking Friends have likely already voted, Election Day is one week from today, and I assume most of yo...