For awhile after leaving faith-church-god, I wasn’t sure what to call myself. “Ex-Christian,” “Former Minister,” “Atheist,” “Non-Supernaturalist”? I settled on […]


For awhile after leaving faith-church-god, I wasn’t sure what to call myself. “Ex-Christian,” “Former Minister,” “Atheist,” “Non-Supernaturalist”? I settled on […]

Working with non-profits for many years I got used to “professional begging” … asking people to support the good things […]

Do we care what the Uber-Rich believe? The Super-powerful might have faith in a Super-God. Does that matter? Old news […]

Be careful what might be hiding in the Spiritual Shell Game. (I know I’ve covered this before, more than once, […]

Re-posted from January. . . What Happened to Secular Chaplain? The Secular Chaplain blog was up for five years and […]

The school year is about to begin. Excitement is building. And one very special student will be in the eager […]

This s**t makes a lot of sense. “I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were […]

Listen to the Prologue to This American Life podcast on “The Weight of Words.” Ira Glass expresses exactly how I felt for […]

Here we are again, discussing something that “gets my goat,” milks my goat and makes goat cheese … or […]

We hear it all the time: “God says!” My response: “Says You!” One famous evangelist always gives his “answer” to […]

Yet another tragic event (this time in Kyoto, Japan) and people are twitching their twitter fingers with “Pray for them.” […]

Just to call yourself non-religious (secular, humanist, skeptic or atheist) seems to threaten some people who think self-identifying as a […]