Now, that title is an attention-grabber, thank you very much! It came to me while writing a new column on […]
Tag Archive for ‘Atheism’
20 Books, 20 Years
This year, 2021, marks 20 years since I published my first book, Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple. With my […]
Glass City Humanists Interview
In this interview with Douglas Berger of the Glass City Humanists in Toledo, Ohio, I talk about my past interfaith […]
A Jewish Atheist Prays
This episode of This American Life is worth listening to, if only for the first 7 minutes when host Ira […]
Good Godlessness?
A friend sent me a link to this very good article by religion scholar Phil Zuckerman. Why America’s record godlessness […]
Freethought Film
The Center for Inquiry produced an excellent series on American Freethought. With the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism, this is […]
How to Kick a Cult
When I was an Evangelical Christian in my youth, we were frightened of anything or anyone that might tempt us […]
Fogmaking
If you’re interested in this kind of thing, pushing back on some of the foggy theological thinking out there, you […]
The Original God?
Was the Sun the original God? Was our Solar System’s HeadLight the origin of anything and everything “god”? However we […]
Essays, Columns, Stories, Books
In case you aren’t aware, many of my essays and columns are collected in published books: Broken Bridges A Freethinker’s […]
God and Atheists
In his eulogy for Henry Thoreau in May 1862, Emerson quotes his friend as saying: “Nothing is so much to […]
Childlike Faith
How people face tragedy says so much about how they were raised and taught what faith means and how to […]
Friendly Freethinker 