What Do Atheists Want?
(short answer: Heck if I know, there are so many kinds!) Ignorance seems contagious, doesn’t it? Currently here in “God’s Country”/the only “Christian Nation” on earth (sure, you know it’s…
Tag: Atheism
Please Support My Work
I’ll post this now and then. I’m not paid for most of my teaching and writing (and just got the lowest royalty check ever for one book … cup of…
Wonders and Illusions
After hearing an interview with Matthew Tompkins, I’ve been enjoying his book, The Spectacle of Illusion. As an experimental psychologist and magician, Tompkins writes the fascinating story of spiritualism and…
When Reason is Not Enough
Here we are in the Age of UN-Reason. (call it nuts, crazy, wacky, weird or downright dangerous, we live in strange times) But there’s no good reason to give up…
Is Atheism a Religion?
Spoiler alert: No. Ok, next time someone says atheism is a religion, here’s a good response from Susan Jacoby (Strange Gods, 2017): “As an adult, I came to regard ‘losing’…
What is Sacred Art?
Today I received a new copy of Huston Smith’s classic, The Illustrated World’s Religions. Must have left my old copy at the chaplaincy in California. A reader asked for good…
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, and would never be, a Christian. I’m not sure why I’ve…
Life After Faith (Part 2)
{Excerpts from the heart of Life After Faith, published in 2010} The Broken Cross and Beyond In 1992 and again in 2000 I made a kind of kindred pilgrimage to…
