This week’s column considers a very disturbing side to religious history: Where are the Women? Here’s a short preview. . […]


This week’s column considers a very disturbing side to religious history: Where are the Women? Here’s a short preview. . […]

This is a video recording of my presentation to the Central Ohio chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, March 12, […]

“Origin stories function, to a degree, as myths designed to create a shared sense of history and purpose.” Some books […]

Coming this Saturday, a Highland Views column on the life and journeys of an enslaved African whose narrative was published […]

A re-post from a few years ago: Continuing the Secular Jesus* Series … *Why Secular Jesus? The “Spiritual Jesus,” exalted […]

This weekend’s column weaves an image from colonial history with an interfaith musical event and an old ferryboat … Look […]

A lot of people who are not teachers (and may have dropped out of school), and then somehow got elected […]

John Muir continues to shake up the environmental world. This article in Earth Island Journal presents a good balance to […]

In this weekend’s column in the Citizen-Times I compared our experiences at Gethsemani Abbey and Shaker Village in Kentucky. Shakers, […]

A few images from our journey to Kentucky (the first visit for me). Overview of some of the 2000 acres […]

In a Washington Post interview today, Burns identifies his primary worry about our democracy, in historical context: “I think this […]

One of the most satisfying aspects of a practice of freethinking is teaching Freethought. Like Science, Philosophy or even Religion, […]