As I am preparing to teach a class on Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of those major thinkers I’ve admired for […]

As I am preparing to teach a class on Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of those major thinkers I’ve admired for […]
What if I told you: I hiked up a mountain the other day and a strange thing happened: a burning […]
The perfect message for a year when the American slogan seems to be: Make America Selfish Again And the perfect […]
The more I read James Baldwin, the more I sense he had his finger on the national and human pulse. […]
For many years I worked closely with people suffering from various forms of mental illness. I take the people, and […]
In our troubled world (yes, an understatement), I found the words of this Somali biologist–who just had a scorpion named […]
In classes I teach on Freethinkers like naturalist John Muir, I often saunter back to wise reminders of human hubris, […]
My recent Zoom talk to the Jubilee! Community here in Asheville begins around the 45:40 mark.
I continue to enjoy receiving invitations to speak in congregations, schools and group settings. In years past, I would be […]