The View from This Seat

Most of you are familiar with the phrase “the Trail of Tears.” Perhaps many of you, though, don’t remember hearing anything about the Treaty...

The news media and the internet have been awash with news and opinions about the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk last week. I was amazed that ...

Earth Day is widely known as an annual event first held on April 22, 1970, and observed on that day every year since. But this year, Sun Day...

Recent U.N. reports about extensive starvation and incipient famine in Gaza spurred me to write this article about the current crisis there ...

  Like many people, I have generally thought of disillusionment as being something "bad," but in a recent sermon, my pastor talked...

Last month, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service stated that churches and/or pastors could endorse candidates running for political office, des...

Carolyn Houts, the Seat cousin closest to me in age, was a Baptist missionary to Ghana from 1977 until her retirement in 2010. One year when...