Forest Beyond Faith

There’s something about Religion that likes to cut down whole forests to show faith (think of holy books, crosses, icons, churches, theological libraries and other distractive attractions). I suppose for some it’s ok to destroy the natural world because they believe the Super-natural world is better. Those of us who leave faith discover much more […]

A Secular Visits the Neighborhood Mosque

“Shoes On, Shoes Off”

Warming Up

In the cold of Winter. . .images like this may help. And it looks like people are “warming” to both Non-Believers and Muslims according to a new survey by Pew Research. “Muslims and atheists — who have long been targets of prejudice in the United States — received substantially warmer ratings on the scale than they […]

Woods in B&W

These images draw out the contrasts and textures in trees, trails and stones, giving them almost a fictional quality.

Icy, Now You See

First February Forest Foray (Smoky Mountains National Park)

New Church, New Scripture

My series of Ingersoll “Meditations” in the North American Review: A Church of the Future, Without God A New, Secular Scripture