Carson River Cabin
For several years my friend and brother Todd and I saddled up the old Pathfinder and “camped out” in a small cabin by the Carson River in the Sierra Nevada.…
Hunting Season for Game, and God?
This essay was posted today on “Rational Doubt” at Patheos. What are your thoughts? Hunting for Game and God
Nature and American Religion
Images of representative voices in American history (to accompany the lecture “Nature and American Religion” by Chris Highland, University of North Carolina, Asheville, March 2, 2020)
Debunking the Bunkum
Some believers like walls, especially if they keep out the “bad,” scary or “evil” influences, or if the walls keep in the “true faith” and protect the faithful. The Wall…
Requiem for the Gods
With all due respect to those who honor, reverence and worship a god or gods/goddesses, I think it’s important now and then to look back on countless cultures in the…
Do You Know Baloney When You Hear It?
Have to admit, I ate a lot of baloney sandwiches when I was growing up. Somehow I survived … and learned to eat healthier foods as the years went by.…
Book Club News!
The Secular Community of the Triad (SCOTT) is reading my book, A Freethinker’s Gospel, in February! I sent the group a few questions to think about: 1) Why have a…
Silent Stones
On a walk in the rain today, after writing my column on Silence, I observed this small fall where the water was all movement and sound. The stones, the boulders,…
