In this weekend’s column in the Citizen-Times I compared our experiences at Gethsemani Abbey and Shaker Village in Kentucky. Shakers, […]
En-lightning
As natural as the summer thunderstorms, poems drop like rain … Heat lightning fires Summer evening cloud mountains Standing, watching, […]
True Story?
The following story is true. This incident really happened. When hiking far out into the forests along the Blue Ridge […]
Kentucky
A few images from our journey to Kentucky (the first visit for me). Overview of some of the 2000 acres […]
A Jewish Atheist Prays
This episode of This American Life is worth listening to, if only for the first 7 minutes when host Ira […]
True Owl Story
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 […]