Fresh off the press: my new column on a new religion for the new year … A New Religion in […]
Tag Archive for ‘Spirituality’
The Pledge vs. Christians
Or vice versa. As a secular person who was a Christian minister and chaplain for years, I’ve been writing a […]
Thoreau’s Challenge
I’ll be teaching a course on Henry David Thoreau this spring. These thoughts were springing and sauntering off the pages […]
Baby god
Joy to the world, the season of Big Babies is Back! Predictably, the seasonal outrage over the fake “war on […]
Is Atheism a Religion?
Spoiler alert: No. Ok, next time someone says atheism is a religion, here’s a good response from Susan Jacoby (Strange […]
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 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 […]
Muir and Me
John Muir sauntered into the wilds of my mind and my life, becoming first a “spiritual […]
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 […]
Saving Jesus, Yet Again
There’s probably no one in history who needs more saving than the Palestinian Jewish Rabbi of Nazareth who was not, […]
Unbelievable Credulity
Credulity (credulous): “too ready to believe something is real or true.” “People will believe anything” I sometimes say, or think. […]
Open Letter on Prayer
(I know I cycle back to this subject now and again, but after the latest “Pray for Them” post, I’ve […]
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