Muir and Me
John Muir sauntered into the wilds of my mind and my life, becoming first a “spiritual prophet” and then a “secular saint” for me. As you…
Religion, awesome and awful
Timothy Egan gets a lot right in this NYT piece: Why People Hate Religion So, yes, people hate religion when the loudest proponents of religion are shown to be mercenaries…
John Brown
Some say he ignited the Civil War with his attempt to fire up a slave rebellion when he led the attack on the Federal Armory in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia…
Zuckerberg Religion
Do we care what the Uber-Rich believe? The Super-powerful might have faith in a Super-God. Does that matter? Old news to some of us, but I see that a few…
Free Backpacks!
Be careful what might be hiding in the Spiritual Shell Game. (I know I’ve covered this before, more than once, but it is so upsetting) Free Backpacks for kids going…
Where is the Secular Chaplain?
Re-posted from January. . . What Happened to Secular Chaplain? The Secular Chaplain blog was up for five years and you can read those older posts there. Now, the Freethinking…
Back to School, for God
The school year is about to begin. Excitement is building. And one very special student will be in the eager crowd of little kids returning to class. This will be…
Images of Beauty
These are my photos from A Freethinker’s Gospel After all, Nature is the best “good news,” isn’t it?
