by Leroy Seat | Mar 29, 2016 | Opinion
Many of the great 19th-century women leaders in the U.S. were against what they considered three great evils: slavery, discrimination against women (including no voting rights) and alcohol. The first two evils have largely been eradicated, but not the third. Jane...
by Leroy Seat | Nov 4, 2015 | Opinion
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is celebrating its 100th anniversary this week in New York City. FOR was launched as the result of a pact made by two Christians in August 1914 at the outbreak of the World War I. The two men, a British Quaker and a German...
by Leroy Seat | Oct 7, 2015 | Opinion
Why are people who show most evidence of firmly believing in and being committed to God not taken more seriously by atheists? There are many noted people who made significant life changes because of what they resolutely believed was a direct experience of God. Within...
by Leroy Seat | Sep 22, 2015 | Opinion
Most Protestants, perhaps, have not paid a lot of attention to what the pope has said and done through the years. But things have changed somewhat since Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope in February 2013. Choosing Francis as his papal name in...
by Leroy Seat | Jan 30, 2015 | Opinion
Growing up in rural northwest Missouri, I didn’t have much opportunity to know people who belonged to the Roman Catholic Church. My years in two Baptist colleges and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary didn’t afford much possibility of getting to know...
