by Leroy Seat | May 5, 2011 | Opinion
Thirty-eight years ago last week, on April 30, 1973, a group of people gathered at the site of a restored Shaker village near Harrodsburg, Ky. It was there that the Shakertown Pledge was written. The Shakers, as most of you may know, were members of a religious sect...
by Leroy Seat | Mar 3, 2011 | Opinion
It was Francis Scott Key, as most of you know, who penned the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our national anthem. What you may not know is that it was 80 years ago this week that Key’s composition officially became the national anthem. Key...
by Leroy Seat | Mar 2, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on conservatism and liberalism. Last year, I published “The Limits of Liberalism.” While the book is primarily about theological liberalism rather than social or political liberalism (my main...
by Leroy Seat | Mar 1, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series on conservatism and liberalism. I received an e-mail from a woman asking me to explain “what the qualifications are that label a person a ‘right-wing conservative.'” In my response I said...
by Leroy Seat | Feb 3, 2011 | Opinion
January’s tragedy in Tucson spurred considerable discussion about gun control, an issue that always sparks lots of lively debate – which may be why the president refrained from talking about that in his State of the Union address on Jan. 25. But I firmly believe...
