In this weekend’s column in the Citizen-Times I compared our experiences at Gethsemani Abbey and Shaker Village in Kentucky. Shakers, […]
Tag Archive for ‘Religion’
True Story?
The following story is true. This incident really happened. When hiking far out into the forests along the Blue Ridge […]
Kentucky
A few images from our journey to Kentucky (the first visit for me). Overview of some of the 2000 acres […]
A Jewish Atheist Prays
This episode of This American Life is worth listening to, if only for the first 7 minutes when host Ira […]
Big Bad Wolf?
The scary wolf of secularism is lurking in the dark, ready to devour faith, democracy, goodness and apple pie … […]
Book of Questions
My latest book, Was Jesus a Humanist?: and other Questionable Essays, is a collection of 25 short essays framed as […]
Graceful Atheist Interview
It was a real pleasure to speak with David Ames on his Graceful Atheist podcast. In some sense I think […]
Faith, Values and the “Dones”
Sure to stir more questions and pushback, this article in “The Conversation” is worth a read. “Faith Still Shapes Morals […]
The Last Archive
I highly recommend “The Last Archive” podcast hosted by Harvard historian Jill Lepore. Creative episodes dramatically trace the history of […]
