Many of my essays and columns are collected in these books:

• Friendly Freethinker
• Broken Bridges
• A Freethinker’s Gospel
• Nature is Enough
• Simply Secular
• Birds, Beetles, Bears and Beliefs
• Was Jesus a Humanist?
• A Secular Gospel
• Once Upon a Faith
• Beyond the Boundaries of Belief
• Highland Views
• Intersections
• One Nature Indivisible
• Eye to Eye
• The Affable, Amiable Apostate
• Humanist Meditations
• Rambling Reflections for Irreverent Rebels
• The Universal University
• A Curious Atheist at the Christian Cross

My columns have appeared in many local papers including:

• Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
• Pensacola News Journal (FL)
• Telegram and Gazette (Worcester, MA)
• Daily Record (York, PA)
• Columbus Dispatch (OH)
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (TX)
• Wilmington Star News (NC)
• Holland Sentinel (MI)
• El Paso Times (TX)
• Abilene Reporter-News (TX)
• Greenville News (SC)
• Coloradoan (CO)
• Post Crescent (WI)
• Des Moines Register (IA)
• The Hutchinson News (KS)
• Sunday Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA)
• The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS)
• Times-Delta (Visalia, CA)
• Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, NC)
• Chambersburg Public Opinion (PA)
• Springfield Journal-Register (IL)
• Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX)
• The Daily American (Somerset, PA)
• Spartanburg Herald Journal (SC)
• Adrian Telegram (MI)
• Reno Gazette-Journal (NV)
• Canton Repository (OH)
• St. Augustine Record (FL)
• Muncie Star Press (IN)
• Stuart News (FL)
• The Herald Times (Bloomington, IN)
• Lansing State Journal (MI)
• Lebanon Daily News (PA)
• Salina Journal (KS)
• Richmond Palladium-Item (IN)
• Sturgis Journal (MI)
• Oak Ridger (TN)
• Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY)
• Shreveport Times (LA)
• Amarillo Globe-News (TX)
• Selma Sun (AL)
• St. Lucie News Tribune (FL)
• Hendersonville Times-News (NC)
• Erie Times-News (PA)
• Gainesville Sun (FL)
• Sandusky Register (OH)
• Daytona News-Journal (FL)
• Ashland Times-Gazette (OH)
• Savannah Morning News (GA)
• The Destin Log (FL)
• Indian River Press Journal (FL)
• Palm Beach Post (FL)

“A weekly column on interfaith issues and the relationship of nonbelievers to communities of faith and to nature from Asheville’s Chris Highland” (USA Today)

Current and Past Writings