Böcker av Chris Highland

Essays exploring the edges, and edginess, of faith and freethought. Former minister Chris Highland presents another collection of essays primarily drawn from his weekly columns in the Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina).

Thoughtful reflections for active humanists from a freethinking former minister.

A fresh collection of scattered thoughts from the curious mind of a freethinking humanist who is not anti-religious.Chapters include: 1-Secrets of the Universe 2-What Have You Really Seen Today? 3-Ubuntu: A Secular Answer to Spiritual Questions 4-The Greatest Love of All 5-Is There a "Natural Spirituality"? 6-Ego de Lego (You Have Heard that it was Said) 7-What Ever Happened to the Golden Rule? 8-Frames of Faith & Points of Reference 9-Religious Morality & Secular Ethics 10-Disturbing Disruptions/Insightful Interruptions 11-Paul Laurence Dunbar & the Heart of Happy Hollow 12-The Devil's in the Details: Do We Still Need Satan? 13-If We Applied Our Minds to Know Wisdom (Koheleth) 14-There is Always Another Trail 15-The Thinking Earth & the Laughing Tree 16-Three Mothers 17-The Sticky Note God 18-The Sweetness of Light in the Blink of an Eye 19-The Elimination of the Unthinkable 20-The Coffin Confessor 21-Olaudah Equiano: Slave, Sailor, Scribe 22-Preachers in Public Schools 23-Cherry-Picking Christians & Tomato-Throwing Atheists 24-Seneca, Wisdom & Living Well with Nature 25-If Everyone Believed the Same as I Do 26-Sagan Saves Us from the Demon-Haunted World 27-Does Rising from the Dead Matter? and many more. Not for the weak of faith or non-freethinkers.

A selection of 60 thoughtful Thoreau quotations and placed them alongside the wisdom words of writers, philosopohers, and teachers from around the world. Bound in a lovely and compact format, the book totes easily along in your pocket, backpack, or picnic basket. Solitude never felt so cozy.

A pocket-sized compendium of passages from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grasspaired with the relevant words of a variety of historical and contemporary thinkers, such as Margaret Fuller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jane Goodall, Mark Twain, Marc Chagall, Helen Keller, Buddha, Dante, and Bhagavad Gita

Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinkers and spiritual texts. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips.