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Chris Highland
Writer, teacher, freethinker, humanist celebrant, former minister and interfaith chaplain
Douglass on True Religious Liberty
I think it’s always good to go back and read the July 5th, 1852 speech given by Frederick Douglass in […]
Supreme Stupidity
The U.S. Supreme Court has been all over the map with rulings these days. Some good decisions, in my opinion, […]
Whose Liberty?
I just came across this quote from Lincoln who spoke these words in Baltimore one year before the end of […]
Saunter on the Blue Ridge
Our drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway today brought us to the trailhead for a hike up Mount Pisgah. Of […]
New Book Published!
My newest book, Broken Bridges, is now available on Amazon in paperback and ebook! Today the book is the #1 […]
Delicate Beauty
Before the rain, in the rain, after the rain. . .great fragility of beauty.
New Book Coming This Week!
My new book is being published in paperback and ebook formats this week! Thank you to all my readers and […]
True Americans?
I’m sure I saw this survey last year (2019), and maybe you did as well. It was done by the […]
Wisdom for Writers
“It is not easy to write in a journal what interests us at any time, because to write it is […]
My Country Too
“That isn’t American!” “They aren’t American!” Who is American? What does it mean to be American? White supremacists, KKK, militias […]
Forest Falls
From our sauntering hike near Bryson City, NC the other day.
Friendly Freethinker 