R. W. Emerson and Cancel Culture

Let’s face it, in such questions as race, class, and gender, Emerson wrote some really mean and dumb…

Humanism in Seven Points

• People matter more than ideas.
• People have many ways of knowing, many ways of discovering…

Mindfulness, Chaos Magic, and Non-Exotic Non-Theists

Religious Naturalism: It to I: part one

If the burned-over summer of 2023 has taught us anything, surely it is that we human…

Yes, Theology is Anthropology But . . .

Most definitions of “self” that I have seen define the term as something about “essential…

Religious Naturalism: It to I: part two

(Exploring I/Thou, I/It, and I & I)

Your Covenant with Nature

The central concept in Humanism is that human beings can solve human problems. A simple example: a pile of dirty…

Speaking of that Loving Your Neighbor Thing

Long ago Jesus talked about neighbors (Luke 10:25–37) and what a neighbor is. The…

A Poetics of Freethought

What is a Poetics?