Eleven years ago, my wife Carol and I were married in a zendo at a Buddhist retreat center in California […]
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Chris Highland
Writer, teacher, freethinker, humanist celebrant, former minister and interfaith chaplain
Slo-mo Mountain Flow
Beaverdam Creek in another short, slo-mo naturally meditative film. . .
Slow Sun
Short, naturally meditative vid.
The Big Offering Plate
Precisely because I’m a secular American, I am a strong supporter of Religious Liberty/Freedom of Religion. So when there is […]
Blue Ridge Stormclouds
Very short video clip of a spring storm rolling in over the Blue Ridge Mountains today.
Religion and Politics
A volatile mix! Yet, maybe a natural, even necessary one? The draft of a short essay I’ve been writing. Sure, […]
The Solution
To just about everything concerning leadership. . . is fairly simple, though very radical. I’m not the first to suggest […]
Content with this World
Henry offers more rich thoughts to stir into the compost of our life here on the Home Planet. “I love […]
Earth Day, Bat Day
Good story on new discoveries of bats. The more we destroy their habitat the more we can “enjoy” the consequences–like […]
John Muir’s 182nd!
Naturalist John Muir would be 182 today! Born on April 21, 1838, Muir sauntered his way from Scotland to Wisconsin […]
What is God Afraid of?
The Fear of God, or God’s Fear? Walking through the forest I saw something in the path ahead. Was it […]
Symbols that Unite or Divide
At my ordination service a friend gave me a cross he had made from two nails. I wore that during […]
Friendly Freethinker 