Sunrise
We Don’t Need a Candle to See the Sun Rise In October 1832, several years before he gained fame as a writer and lecturer, Ralph Waldo Emerson jotted down something…
Category: essays
Fogmaking
If you’re interested in this kind of thing, pushing back on some of the foggy theological thinking out there, you may find this response to an essay a friend sent…
Is Truth True?
Is it True the Truth Will Set Us Free? Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the world famous oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau, has an urgent message for all earth-dwellers: the ocean is our…
Nones Bible: Chapter Four
The Nones Bible Chapter Four “Some confusion about where believers go when they die” I don’t make it a habit of reading obituaries. Like the old joke, I’m afraid I…
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 the time I worked as a county jail chaplain in…
My Column (Sneak Preview)
Coming this Saturday in the Citizen-Times … “A Non-Believer’s Open Letter to God” Why on earth (or anywhere else) would a non-believing humanist freethinking secular person write a letter to…
Heretic Hollow
This essay on the joys and jocularity during seminary years was just posted on Rational Doubt (Patheos). Memories of Mischief and Mirth from Heretic Hollow In memory of Tom Armstrong
Happy Muir Year!
My latest essay on John Muir was just published in The Humanist! See what you think. And may all readers of this blog, my books, columns and essays discover ever…
