As we turn the pages of the calendar … we replace the old one with a 2021 calendar from the […]


As we turn the pages of the calendar … we replace the old one with a 2021 calendar from the […]

Twas the day After Christmas and the Christmas Baby (that would be me, born on the 25th) had one more […]

If you’re interested in this kind of thing, pushing back on some of the foggy theological thinking out there, you […]

I may do my best to encourage folks to be Freethinkers, choosing to face difficult questions and reflections about faith, […]

The perfect message for a year when the American slogan seems to be: Make America Selfish Again And the perfect […]

I was an “Interfaith” chaplain for many years. My wife was the director of an “Interfaith” council. Now, that word […]

Skepticism, Intuition and Horseshit Detection Intuition: “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning” (New Oxford […]

I chose my photograph of drops on leaves for a header image for several reasons: A symbol of the delicate […]

This may come as a shock to some readers, but ’tis the season for honesty, isn’t it? (that’s a very […]

A Declaration of Preference?: If Christians Wrote the Declaration of Independence If America was actually founded to be a “Christian […]

This essay was originally published in my e-book, Nature is Enough (2013). Selected essays, including the one here, were posted […]

Alright, maybe not so new … and just maybe the oldest religion in the human story. “Can a Secular Person […]