I’ve thought about this issue for a long time. My article on the question of teaching scriptures in schools was […]


I’ve thought about this issue for a long time. My article on the question of teaching scriptures in schools was […]

My latest collection of essays has been published as a paperback, ebook and audiobook. Published during the aftermath of our […]

Reading my column, “Isn’t Every Child Born an Atheist?”

This week’s column celebrates the 100th anniversary of writer James Baldwin’s birth on August 2, 1924. Baldwin was a freethinker […]

My essay “Nature’s Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple, Classroom” was published in Pantheist Vision (Summer 2024). An excerpt. . . If […]

On the freethinking path, I’m constantly discovering lessons in Freethought. Freethought isn’t a school, belief or specific ideology; it isn’t […]

This week’s “Highland Views” column (published in selected local newspapers in the USA Today network this weekend) digs a little […]

What’s your wisdom on this thought I’m sharing with my class on Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca?:

This is my first on-camera reading of a column. “Isn’t Every Child Born an Atheist?” See what you think and […]

Out in the Classroom this afternoon (the one under the sycamore shading me from the summer sun, where I look […]

Freethinkers can sometimes assume the role of Son of God (or Daughter, Child of God). . .at least as Hindus […]

from an essay I’ve been writing on “Owning up to Ownership”: As I try to make an effort to learn […]