Thanks to Margaret Downey, President of the Freethought Society in Pennsylvania, my essay on naturalistic philosopher John Burroughs is included […]
Tag Archive for ‘Humanism’
Growing Ideas
Thanks to crops of ideas planted, rooted, sprouting and fruiting, and thanks to readers who harvest the seeds of my […]
Thought Police
My column this weekend compares the annual “Freedom of Thought Report” from Humanists International with the U.S. State Department’s “International […]
New Book for Reading and Reflecting!
It’s been quite a year for writing and publishing! Take a look at my Books page! My latest book Once […]
Religious Wrong
The so-called “Religious Right” with its messy mix of Faith and Follytics (clever, yes?) is stumbling and bumbling in its […]
Goodall’s Gospel
Here’s a sneak peek at this coming weekend’s column. . . Goodall’s Gospel: The Hopeful Philosophy of Jane Goodall In […]
Professor Jesus
I was pleased, and a little surprised, to see my book, Was Jesus a Humanist? linked in the Alumni News […]
Placeholders
This thought grew out of a discussion in my class on Humanism. Placeholders for the Ineffable. We have an experience, […]
20 Books, 20 Years
This year, 2021, marks 20 years since I published my first book, Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple. With my […]
Friendly Freethinker 