A conversation with an old friend who lives near the island I once lived on in Washington State, brought back […]
Big Bad Wolf?
The scary wolf of secularism is lurking in the dark, ready to devour faith, democracy, goodness and apple pie … […]
Readers’ Reminder
Hey, Chris here. A quick reminder of a few important things you may or may not know: My weekly columns […]
Book of Questions
My latest book, Was Jesus a Humanist?: and other Questionable Essays, is a collection of 25 short essays framed as […]
July Fourth
Each July Fourth I like to read Frederick Douglass‘s powerful speech, delivered in Rochester, NY in 1852. It is considered […]
Truth is Ruthless
That line is from a highly recommended book I just finished reading: Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning […]
Sycamore Spider
You may be “sick o’ more” spiders … but this beautiful grandmama longlegs was stretched across a sycamore leaf by […]
New Collection of Poetry
One of the most personal publications I’ve put out there, Edge of the Falls collects poetic tidbits from the heart […]
Thought for the Day
Baldwin dropped this line on my brain while reading a collection of his essays: “Not everything that is faced can […]
Warning from Ken Burns
In a Washington Post interview today, Burns identifies his primary worry about our democracy, in historical context: “I think this […]
Graceful Atheist Interview
It was a real pleasure to speak with David Ames on his Graceful Atheist podcast. In some sense I think […]
Faith, Values and the “Dones”
Sure to stir more questions and pushback, this article in “The Conversation” is worth a read. “Faith Still Shapes Morals […]
Friendly Freethinker 