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Month: January 2020

Posted on January 30, 2020

True Religious Freedom

This Opinion piece was published in our local paper today: On True Religious Freedom At times I can’t resist responding to people like the woman who wrote with anger and…

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Posted on January 28, 2020February 10, 2020

I Believe that Believing Ruins Religion

Am I wrong about that? “What has occurred over and over through history? That person emerges from their “wild experience” and they immediately begin to talk about it. They find…

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Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020

My Column (Sneak Preview)

Coming this Saturday in the Citizen-Times … “A Non-Believer’s Open Letter to God” Why on earth (or anywhere else) would a non-believing humanist freethinking secular person write a letter to…

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Posted on January 20, 2020January 20, 2020

The Mind Has Mountains

Woke up to 22 degrees and light, silent snow.  Living beauty in the mountains. “Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere …” Found my old crumbling copy of Gerard Manley…

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Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020

Don’t Take My Word

Listening to an episode of the Ridiculous History podcast this morning, one of the hosts said, “Don’t take my word for it.”  A common phrase; we’ve all said it.  A…

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Posted on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

Google Prayers?

So, now that the Impeached-in-Chief has magically allowed more magic in schools (students are now free to pray?  What a shock!), I remembered this little piece I wrote a while…

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Posted on January 13, 2020

Do Atheists have anything in Common with Believers?

My latest thoughts on these things that agitate … mostly in a good way … What Atheists Have in Common with Believers Writing about topics and issues of faith and…

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Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

Heretic Hollow

This essay on the joys and jocularity during seminary years was just posted on Rational Doubt (Patheos). Memories of Mischief and Mirth from Heretic Hollow In memory of Tom Armstrong

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