Author Archives: Leroy Seat
Quotes from “The Shack”
{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
“The Post-American”
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
Criticism of American Christianity
[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
A Further Look at “Silence”
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
“The New Left and Christian Radicalism”
[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
Following the Plough
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
Seek Justice
[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
Review of Leroy Barber’s “Embrace”
This is a review I wrote for Missiology: An International Review, which will be published sometime next year. Barber, Leroy. Embrace: God’s Radical Shalom for a Divided World. IVP Books, 2016. 140 pp. $16.00, paperback. For many years one of my … Continue reading
Honoring Teachers
Although it is not widely observed in the United States, today is World Teachers’ Day. Since 1994 this has been an annual October 5 observance sponsored by the United Nations to commemorate the work of teachers and their contributions to … Continue reading
50 years ago
September 2, 2016: It was appropriate that I woke up this morning dreaming I was in Japan and speaking Japanese, for it was 50 years ago today that June and I, along with Keith and Kathy, woke up for the … Continue reading
The View from This Seat (supplementary blog) 