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These are hard times for huge numbers of people across the world, and across the street. Physically, emotionally, financially, we’re feeling the pinch. Poorer, weaker and less powerful folks are…
Tag: humanist
Smallest Predators
A wild thought was stalking me this morning: In the Great (scary) Outdoors, we used to fear the large predators: bears, mountain lions, wolves, sharks We killed most of them…
Viral Churches?
Americans United issued this statement about churches being exempted from closing during the pandemic. Makes sense to me. Very balanced and reasonable. As I told someone: public health “trumps” religious…
Right to Life
I get so weary of yet another bunch of old white guys trying to restrict a woman’s right to make a difficult decision, with her medical professional, what to do…
The Greatest Story Not Yet Told
This essay was published last year on Patheos. The Greatest Story Not Yet Told “Maybe we can resurrect the essentials of The Story and take it back from those who…
Who’s a Better Parent than God?
Having raised a daughter and observed parents do all kinds of “interesting” parenting over the years, I have a few opinions about what “good” parenting is. It’s not that hard…
Spring in our Steps
Winter fades on the trail behind, as Spring opens on the trail ahead. Interesting explanation of the Early Equinox here: Spring Starts Today (NYT) I was particularly impressed with these…
In Fearful Times. . .
I wrote this for my weekly column, but decided to post it here for, perhaps, wider reading. Fear, Faith and Freethinking I was relating a story to some friends about camping…
