Working with non-profits for many years I got used to “professional begging” … asking people to support the good things […]
Muir and Me
John Muir sauntered into the wilds of my mind and my life, becoming first a “spiritual […]
Religion, awesome and awful
Timothy Egan gets a lot right in this NYT piece: Why People Hate Religion So, yes, people hate religion when […]
John Brown
Some say he ignited the Civil War with his attempt to fire up a slave rebellion when he led the […]
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 […]
Free Backpacks!
Be careful what might be hiding in the Spiritual Shell Game. (I know I’ve covered this before, more than once, […]
Where is the Secular Chaplain?
Re-posted from January. . . What Happened to Secular Chaplain? The Secular Chaplain blog was up for five years and […]
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 […]
Images of Beauty
These are my photos from A Freethinker’s Gospel After all, Nature is the best “good news,” isn’t it?
Don’t Say S**T
This s**t makes a lot of sense. “I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were […]
Saving Jesus, Yet Again
There’s probably no one in history who needs more saving than the Palestinian Jewish Rabbi of Nazareth who was not, […]
While God Wasn’t Watching
Breaking (Broken) News Just In from “West Wing Reads” (official White House email): ‘You Had God Watching’ President Donald J. […]