A preview of this week’s column … “A Definition of Religion even Seculars can Accept” Naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921) wrote […]
Tag Archive for ‘Religion’
Merry Season to All
I just received the annual Christmas (not “Holiday”) message from the President of the Evangelical Christian University where I earned […]
Thoreau’s Challenge
I’ll be teaching a course on Henry David Thoreau this spring. These thoughts were springing and sauntering off the pages […]
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 […]
Teaching or Preaching?
Ancient Chinese wisdom, the distraction of “religious activity” and a simple rule learned in jail … Today’s column in the […]
Freedom for All?
I think it’s good and wise to be aware of the Christian Nationalists and their insidious schemes to re-make America […]
Life Now–Not When
My friend Jim Gronvold has published a string or strand or stream of books full of something we call “poems,” […]
Windbags and Blowhards
First snow of the season here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Might slip to around 12 degrees tonight. Icy cold […]
“My Faith Won’t Let Me Help You”
It’s not easy to read the latest issue of “Church and State” (published by Americans United). We’ve all heard about […]
Path Beyond Belief
For most of my life, faith, church, God were formative, central, deeply influential … Then, over time, with much reflection, […]
Friendly Freethinker 