As an EXvangelical myself, I find these comments on NPR from Ed Stetzer of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton […]
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Chris Highland
Writer, teacher, freethinker, humanist celebrant, former minister and interfaith chaplain
Jung Trees
As a tree-loving person who grew up in the Evergreen State (Washington), rooted among the redwoods for many years (California) […]
How to Kick a Cult
When I was an Evangelical Christian in my youth, we were frightened of anything or anyone that might tempt us […]
Sunrise
We Don’t Need a Candle to See the Sun Rise In October 1832, several years before he gained fame as […]
Religious Addiction
If you haven’t seen this very short video from a while back, here you go. The “Nature Chaplain” addresses one […]
Do You Understand Religious Freedom?
You don’t understand Religious Freedom if you think: -The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is more important than other […]
Serve and Protect
As we turn the pages of the calendar … we replace the old one with a 2021 calendar from the […]
Face Value
My reading has been flowing back and forth between James Baldwin and Pauli Murray. I’ve had Murray’s autobiographical book, Proud […]
’twas the Day After
Twas the day After Christmas and the Christmas Baby (that would be me, born on the 25th) had one more […]
Fogmaking
If you’re interested in this kind of thing, pushing back on some of the foggy theological thinking out there, you […]
Secular Conversions?
I may do my best to encourage folks to be Freethinkers, choosing to face difficult questions and reflections about faith, […]
Self the Elf
The perfect message for a year when the American slogan seems to be: Make America Selfish Again And the perfect […]
Friendly Freethinker 