I just received the annual Christmas (not “Holiday”) message from the President of the Evangelical Christian University where I earned […]
Tag Archive for ‘interfaith’
Thoreau’s Challenge
I’ll be teaching a course on Henry David Thoreau this spring. These thoughts were springing and sauntering off the pages […]
Nicking St. Nick
“No, Virginia, There is No Santa Claus” {An updated version of the famous letter and editorial from New York […]
Please Support My Work
I post this “invitation” now and then. I’m not paid for most of my teaching and writing, so I welcome […]
Holy Cow Trough!
What a surprise, and just in time for the Christmas Season. . . We all know that Superstition and Credulity […]
Baby god
Joy to the world, the season of Big Babies is Back! Predictably, the seasonal outrage over the fake “war on […]
When Reason is Not Enough
Here we are in the Age of UN-Reason. (call it nuts, crazy, wacky, weird or downright dangerous, we live in […]
A Closer Look at the Lord’s Prayer
This week’s column takes a closer, rational, line-by-line look at the so-called Lord’s Prayer or “Our Father.” Many of us […]
What is Sacred Art?
Today I received a new copy of Huston Smith’s classic, The Illustrated World’s Religions. Must have left my old copy […]
What is Humanism?
For awhile after leaving faith-church-god, I wasn’t sure what to call myself. “Ex-Christian,” “Former Minister,” “Atheist,” “Non-Supernaturalist”? I settled on […]
Please Support My Work
Working with non-profits for many years I got used to “professional begging” … asking people to support the good things […]
Zuckerberg Religion
Do we care what the Uber-Rich believe? The Super-powerful might have faith in a Super-God. Does that matter? Old news […]
Friendly Freethinker 