The View from This Seat

“Zacchaeus Was a Wee Little Man” is a children’s song that those of us who grew up going to Sunday School sang and taught our children to si...

Although I prefer to write about broader topics, it seems like I keep getting drawn back to issues I was dealing with when I wrote the first...

  In Memory of Walter Brueggemann Last month I posted “In Memory of LBJ,” an article about the 36 th POTUS, whom you all know of. In this...

Chuck Collins is not a household name, and I had not heard of him until recently. * 1 But his new (2025) book, Burned by Billionaires ( Bb...

As I wrote in response to Thinking Friend Vern Barnet’s excellent comments regarding my April 30 blog post, I grew up in a rather fundamenta...

In 1962, I purchased and carefully read The Phenomenon of Man , the magnum opus of French paleontologist and Jesuit theologian Teilhard de ...

Through the years, I have posted articles regarding many individuals, but very few about personal friends / acquaintances. This post is abou...