If you haven’t seen this very short video from a while back, here you go. The “Nature Chaplain” addresses one […]


If you haven’t seen this very short video from a while back, here you go. The “Nature Chaplain” addresses one […]

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

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

This thought has been firing the synapses in my head the last few days: So much religious faith begins (and […]

For many years I worked closely with people suffering from various forms of mental illness. I take the people, and […]

Some seem to think they “own” the flag. Just as some think they “own” Jesus. Where would Jesus go to […]

For a divided nation, it’s either a wonderful day or an awful one. Celebration on one side, and disappointment, even […]

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 […]

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

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) fought alongside Stanton, Anthony and many others for women’s rights, the vote and full equality. In […]

Or is she? I’m talking about Frances Wright, 19th Century Scottish-American social reformer who flung her freethinking in the face […]