Author Archives: Leroy Seat

About Leroy Seat

* Born in Grant City, MO, on 8/15/1938 * Graduated from Southwest Baptist College (Bolivar, MO) in 1957 (A.A.) * Graduated from William Jewell College (Liberty, MO) in 1959 (A.B.) * Graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY) in 1962 (B.D., equivalent of M.Div.) * Received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in theology from SBTS. * Baptist missionary to Japan from 1966 to 2004. * Full-time faculty member at Seinan Gakuin University (Fukuoka, Japan) from 1968 to 2004. * Adjunct professor at Rockhurst University from 2006 to 2014.

A True(tt) Baptist

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Leroy Seat

[The following article, in a slightly edited and shortened version, appears in the June issue of Word&Way, the historic journal for Missouri Baptists. I enjoyed working on this article and appreciate Editor Brian Kaylor using in the Word&Way.] Later this … Continue reading →

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What about the Benedict Option?

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Leroy Seat

Have you heard of “the Benedict Option”? It has been emphasized for years by Rod Dreher, and his new book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, was just published on March 14. On that very day, … Continue reading →

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A Book Not Written

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Leroy Seat

There is no date on any of the pages, but recently I ran across the outline for a book that at one point I had hoped to write. The tentative title was An Apology for Christian Mission in the Modern … Continue reading →

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Quotes from “The Shack”

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Leroy Seat

{On March 5, I posted an article on my regular blogsite about “The Shack” (see here). I noted the following quotes when I read the book again just before seeing the movie by the same name which was released on … Continue reading →

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“The Post-American”

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Leroy Seat

After nearly five years in Japan, my family and I came back to the U.S. in 1971 for a year’s furlough from our missionary work there. During those years I had been a full-time faculty member at Seinan Gakuin University … Continue reading →

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Criticism of American Christianity

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Leroy Seat

[This is the English summary of a Chapel talk I gave at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka City,  Japan, on October 24, 1972. My wife and I returned to the U.S. for the first time after spending nearly five full … Continue reading →

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A Further Look at “Silence”

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Leroy Seat

Over the last couple of weeks I have read a number of reviews about Martin Scorsese’s movie “Silence,” based on the 1966 (Eng., 1969) novel by the same name written by Endo Shusaku. Endo (1923-96) was a Catholic Christian who … Continue reading →

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“The New Left and Christian Radicalism”

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Leroy Seat

[Rather than a summary of the book as such, the following is mainly a compilation of what I found to be the most important statements made in this powerful book.] Gish, Arthur G. The New Left and Christian Radicalism. Eerdmans, … Continue reading →

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Following the Plough

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Leroy Seat

Although I grew up as a Worth County, Missouri, farmboy and worked many hours in the fields on most summer days during my early-teen years, I never did plow with a horse or a mule. My father and especially my … Continue reading →

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Seek Justice

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Leroy Seat

[Manuscript for the sermon preached (with PowerPoint slides) at Rosedale Congregational United Church of Christ on October 30, 2016.] Seek Justice It is a delight to back here at Rosedale Congregational United Church of Christ again today, and I bring … Continue reading →

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