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


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

My essay on the Roman Stoic Lucius Seneca has just been published by The Freethought Society in Pennsylvania. Seneca’s Secular […]

Those of us who left faith behind frequently hear the “loving” accusation that we were never Christians in the first […]

My Zoom talk on “Broken Bridges” at Houston Oasis is up on the Oasis TV channel. I begin just after […]

We don’t often hear someone say, “I’m a born atheist,” but this week’s “Highland Views” column asks the question: “Isn’t […]

Visiting family in Oregon, we went out for dinner and drinks at a local church. At least it used to […]

It’s popular in secular circles to share stories of “deconstruction.” I’ve written on this before, but when I heard the […]

I enjoyed this podcast interview with Brett Wilson on Mountain Zen Den He’s West in the Rockies, I’m East in […]

A reminder: My weekly columns from the Asheville Citizen-Times are posted each Saturday right here on Friendly Freethinker: Highland Views […]

It’s worth thinking about. Today’s column weaves the waterfalls of mystics, heretics and naturalists. Mystics, Heretics and Other “Souls on […]

Showed this in my current class on Christian Nationalism. See if you can guess who said it, then click on […]

Happy to announce the publication of two more books this week: One Nature Indivisible: Explorations in Freethought Eye to Eye: […]