Happy to announce the publication of two more books this week: One Nature Indivisible: Explorations in Freethought Eye to Eye: […]


Happy to announce the publication of two more books this week: One Nature Indivisible: Explorations in Freethought Eye to Eye: […]

Taking this series of images of a dragonfly we hit with our car, I was awestruck by the amazing, intricate […]

from an essay I’ve been writing on “Owning up to Ownership”: As I try to make an effort to learn […]

We drove in the “Freedom Convoy” today! Seriously, there it was as we were driving here in Western North Carolina. […]

This weekend’s column weaves an image from colonial history with an interfaith musical event and an old ferryboat … Look […]

I know, strange thing for a secular freethinker to say, but looks like there really is a “war on Christmas,” […]

(*Update to this post: This article in the NYT speaks to the challenges rational people currently face: “Where Facts Were No […]

This year, 2021, marks 20 years since I published my first book, Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple. With my […]

On a long trail loop near Asheville, we waded through a cold mountain stream 7 or 8 times, beneath pines […]

The following story is true. This incident really happened. When hiking far out into the forests along the Blue Ridge […]

A few images from our journey to Kentucky (the first visit for me). Overview of some of the 2000 acres […]

My latest book, Was Jesus a Humanist?: and other Questionable Essays, is a collection of 25 short essays framed as […]