This week’s column is on the Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh who passed away last week. His writings were […]
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Chris Highland
Writer, teacher, freethinker, humanist celebrant, former minister and interfaith chaplain
Langston Hughes
This week’s column celebrates the creative mind of Black poet Langston Hughes. It includes these lines from “Call to Creation”: […]
This Little Light
This weekend’s column shines a light on the illumination created by people who choose to act in more enlightened ways […]
January Skies
The backdrop to our lives. . .
Freethought Society Essay on Burroughs Published
Thanks to Margaret Downey, President of the Freethought Society in Pennsylvania, my essay on naturalistic philosopher John Burroughs is included […]
Appalachian New Year
Missing the cold, the snow, the “real winter,” yet we never have to miss the Beauty of Nature.
Grounding
This week’s column draws from a story told by a transgender rabbi, then relates that to a suicide prevention hotline […]
Growing Ideas
Thanks to crops of ideas planted, rooted, sprouting and fruiting, and thanks to readers who harvest the seeds of my […]
Sons are Born
Couldn’t resist creating this image of something I’ve thought about for years: all the innocent children, the “holy babies” and […]
Christmas
Some readers may know that my birthday is Christmas Day, so I usually like to keep it low key and […]
A Sun is Born
Unto us a Sun is given! An early “Shining Solstice” to readers of Friendly Freethinker! A BBC article amazes us with […]
Common Good
A bit of wit and wisdom gleaned from Nick Offerman’s “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play”: “Let’s own the […]
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