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…
Month: January 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
