Gold or not, was this ancient “rule” (not exclusive to scriptures) meant to be the heart of the whole message? […]
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Secular Jesus Speaks
A re-post from a few years ago: Continuing the Secular Jesus* Series … *Why Secular Jesus? The “Spiritual Jesus,” exalted […]
Saving Christ-mas
I know, strange thing for a secular freethinker to say, but looks like there really is a “war on Christmas,” […]
Militant Masculinity
Sneak peek at the first column of September, coming this weekend: “When I became a teenage crusader for The Man […]
Secular Parable
Or simply an analogy of my life-story? Journey to the Forest of Freethought (a secular parable for the trail to […]
Shaking Faith
In this weekend’s column in the Citizen-Times I compared our experiences at Gethsemani Abbey and Shaker Village in Kentucky. Shakers, […]
Book of Questions
My latest book, Was Jesus a Humanist?: and other Questionable Essays, is a collection of 25 short essays framed as […]
Freed from a Creed
Can We Be Freed from a Need for a Creed? Growing up in a small Presbyterian church north of Seattle, […]
UNvangelicals
As an EXvangelical myself, I find these comments on NPR from Ed Stetzer of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton […]
Sunrise
We Don’t Need a Candle to See the Sun Rise In October 1832, several years before he gained fame as […]
Secular Conversions?
I may do my best to encourage folks to be Freethinkers, choosing to face difficult questions and reflections about faith, […]
Gandhi on Jesus
Was Gandhi a better Christian than many Christians? Or, was he a wise Hindu who had a higher view of […]
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