Secular Life

Dialog is hard but doable. tl:dr Better dialogs are possible and in fact have been occasionally taking place, especially when participants ...

the chicken chicken When I open the cage to let the chickens out, one particular chicken is always afraid of me. She is the last of four chi...

Tim LaHaye on humanism Of two equally convenient gas stations near my house, one is run by an evangelical Christian who sells Christian-Righ...

Heather McGhee’s new book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together , offers an updated way of looking at r...

starting a fire is magical With SARS-CoV2 receding in Seattle, I threw the first yard party since fall of 2019, complete with a bonfire. Ove...

Rev William Barber II In the 80s, I learned one of the tenets of Critical Race Theory, and it changed the way I think about racism to this d...

Good times, 2015 When same-sex marriage swept the United States, it was a stunning liberal victory. In 1999, no state in the union even had ...