When I was an evangelical Christian (many blood-red moons ago) I would damn someone like me for saying this, but […]


When I was an evangelical Christian (many blood-red moons ago) I would damn someone like me for saying this, but […]

Some people wonder how those with faith and those without faith can live, work and even have friendly relationships with […]

The Nez Perce tribe in Idaho/Oregon just purchased about 150 acres of the 7 million acres of tribal land stolen […]

As a teacher concerned with streams of thought, particularly Freethought, I’m continually asking myself who is being left out in […]

Robby Steinhardt, violinist and vocalist for the rock band Kansas, died recently. Not only did that news make me feel […]

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

In case you didn’t know (maybe you’re agnostic?): My new collection of “questionable essays” is the Number One Seller in […]

In this weekend’s column in the Citizen-Times I compared our experiences at Gethsemani Abbey and Shaker Village in Kentucky. Shakers, […]

As natural as the summer thunderstorms, poems drop like rain … Heat lightning fires Summer evening cloud mountains Standing, watching, […]

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 […]

This episode of This American Life is worth listening to, if only for the first 7 minutes when host Ira […]