My column today, at the edge of Hanukkah, Solstice, Christmas Week. A Sun Sleeps, A Son Awakens Photo: our tiny […]
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Seasonal Celebrations
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year (or don’t celebrate), may you have a naturally peaceful season.
Good Faith
When people of faith, any faith, are active in good things, serving others with compassion, I think seculars should notice […]
Two New Books
Happy to announce the publication of two more books this week: One Nature Indivisible: Explorations in Freethought Eye to Eye: […]
How Can You Not Believe?
Taking this series of images of a dragonfly we hit with our car, I was awestruck by the amazing, intricate […]
An Educational Pilgrimage
from an essay I’ve been writing on “Owning up to Ownership”: As I try to make an effort to learn […]
Freedom Convoy
We drove in the “Freedom Convoy” today! Seriously, there it was as we were driving here in Western North Carolina. […]
Old Ferries, New Ships
This weekend’s column weaves an image from colonial history with an interfaith musical event and an old ferryboat … Look […]
Saving Christ-mas
I know, strange thing for a secular freethinker to say, but looks like there really is a “war on Christmas,” […]
Leadership for Dummies
(*Update to this post: This article in the NYT speaks to the challenges rational people currently face: “Where Facts Were No […]
20 Books, 20 Years
This year, 2021, marks 20 years since I published my first book, Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple. With my […]
Minute Meditation
On a long trail loop near Asheville, we waded through a cold mountain stream 7 or 8 times, beneath pines […]
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