Nearly 20 years ago, while living in a tiny one-room cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest, I self-published […]
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Ten Years of Columns
My newspaper columns have been published in at least 60 papers in the USA Today network. Since I began writing […]
Hell?…No!
Hell YES I posted this Hot Topic on my Friendly Freethinker Substack! Damn the Theological Torture Trap!
Good is Great
My New Book is freshly published for Spring! Sixty-eight short essays selected from my weekly newspaper columns. Pick and choose […]
Writings
Many of my essays and columns are collected in these books: Friendly Freethinker Broken Bridges A Freethinker’s Gospel Nature is […]
New Year, New Book!
This new collection of columns and essays weaves a narrative from early college and seminary years, up to the present. […]
New Book Published
My latest collection of essays has been published as a paperback, ebook and audiobook. Published during the aftermath of our […]
Heavens and Homes
An excerpt from this week’s column, where Galileo meets an old Baptist hymn: As Galileo may have said about these […]
Nature as Sanctuary and Classroom
My essay “Nature’s Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple, Classroom” was published in Pantheist Vision (Summer 2024). An excerpt. . . If […]
What Does it Mean to be a Freethinker?
This week’s “Highland Views” column (published in selected local newspapers in the USA Today network this weekend) digs a little […]
Was I Ever a Christian?
Those of us who left faith behind frequently hear the “loving” accusation that we were never Christians in the first […]
Loving to Hate?
I’ve started volunteering as a “Greeter” at a local Planned Parenthood clinic. Having known women who received healthcare through PP […]