by Leroy Seat | Jul 13, 2018 | Opinion
In May 1957, I graduated from Southwest Baptist College (now University) when it was still a junior college. That fall I transferred to William Jewell College. One of my courses that first semester was Philosophy of Religion; the textbook was the newly published...
by Leroy Seat | Jul 6, 2018 | Opinion
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” the official national anthem of the U.S. since 1931, has been sung and played often in the past few days, including at many churches last Sunday. This article, however, is about what has often been called the “Black National Anthem.” James...
by Leroy Seat | May 30, 2018 | Opinion
There have been missionaries to “foreign” places and ethnic groups from the time of the Apostle Paul to the present. The modern Protestant missionary movement, however, began with Englishman William Carey in 1792. Building upon Carey’s groundbreaking...
by Leroy Seat | May 14, 2018 | Opinion
Today is the launch of the new Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) activities. The original PPC was inaugurated by Martin Luther King Jr. Mainly because of his tragic assassination 601 months ago, it didn’t accomplish what he had hoped for. The primary leader of...
by Leroy Seat | Apr 23, 2018 | Opinion
Headlines and social media feeds were filled earlier this month with articles about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination on April 4, 1968. King wrote his powerful “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” five years earlier on April 16,...
