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Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021

Prayer Free Zone

If you pray, feel free.  If you choose to pray for me, go ahead.  But please keep your prayers to yourself.  Respectfully, I don’t need to hear them or want…

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Posted on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020

Muir and White Supremacy

I wrote this essay in response to recent interpretations of John Muir as a racist. This is not a defense of the indefensible but a more wholistic view of the…

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Posted on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

Douglass on True Religious Liberty

I think it’s always good to go back and read the July 5th, 1852 speech given by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY. This section may speak to the latest short-sighted…

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Posted on May 9, 2020May 9, 2020

An Atheist at a Prayer Breakfast?

Why on earth, or any other planet, would a secular, humanist, freethinking, non-religious atheist attend a prayer breakfast?  Good question.  Deserves a good answer. Well, that attendee was me.  And…

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Posted on October 26, 2019October 26, 2019

Religion to Love, and Hate

In the 1840’s, Frederick Douglass traveled through the British Isles speaking on his former life as a slave in America.  His voice, presence and message were powerful. His “gospel” was…

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Posted on August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

John Brown

Some say he ignited the Civil War with his attempt to fire up a slave rebellion when he led the attack on the Federal Armory in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia…

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Posted on July 4, 2019July 4, 2019

Freedom and Independence (just words?)

Some neighbors are “celebrating” July 4th with small bombs and gunshots.  Others are flying enough flags to wrap the Statue of Liberty (she seems naked these days), proving just how…

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Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019

Canada Day and July 4th

  Happy Canada Day! Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Canada was always a close neighbor and each visit reminded me what a great country it is.  The people were…

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