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Chris Highland
Writer, teacher, freethinker, humanist celebrant, former minister and interfaith chaplain
Please Support My Work
I’ll post this now and then. I’m not paid for most of my teaching and writing (and just got the […]
Do you read my weekly columns?
You may or may not know that I post my weekly “Highland Views” columns from the Citizen-Times right here in an […]
Wonders and Illusions
After hearing an interview with Matthew Tompkins, I’ve been enjoying his book, The Spectacle of Illusion. As an experimental psychologist […]
Decision Time for Teachers
Life in the American South is a constant head-spin. Liberal Progressives mixed in with REvangelicals and other Disciples of the […]
When Reason is Not Enough
Here we are in the Age of UN-Reason. (call it nuts, crazy, wacky, weird or downright dangerous, we live in […]
Autumn Poem
I don’t write much poetry any more, and I never liked rhyming much, but here’s something in honor of the […]
Is Atheism a Religion?
Spoiler alert: No. Ok, next time someone says atheism is a religion, here’s a good response from Susan Jacoby (Strange […]
Mystery upon Mystery
I suppose I’m the kind of person who enjoys a good mystery. I like watching mysteries (particularly British) but I […]
Paine Management for Believers and Non-Believers
As I’m about to teach a six-week class on a forgotten freethinking founder of America, it becomes clearer to me […]
Is Every Atheist an Anti-Theist?
That’s my Q of the D … Question of the Day. If you identify as an Atheist, are you also […]
A Day at Mount Vernon
I was born and raised in Washington … the State of Washington. Since childhood I saw images of George everywhere, […]
Friendly Freethinker 