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Friendly Freethinker
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Another dynamic collection of contemporary essays on Humanism, Religion and Nature by former minister and chaplain Chris Highland selected from his weekly "Highland Views" columns in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Friendly Freethinker follows the publication of A Freethinker's Gospel and Broken Bridges, each presenting provocative perspectives on faith and freethought in a fractured world. Positive, incisive, hopeful and helpful, essays include "Can We Talk About Religious Supremacy?," "Having Difficult Conversations without Destroying Relationships," "Battling Bullies in Boyhood and Beliefs,...
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Friendly Freethinker
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Humanist Meditations
- Contemplating Our Secular World
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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A Secular Gospel
- More Essays for Freethinkers
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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Freethinking essayist Chris Highland presents a new collection of his latest columns from the Asheville Citizen-Times, plus more essays to energize critical thinking. A non-theist who is not anti-religious, Highland offers perspectives on topics of interest to secular as well as believing people. Concise, controversial and inviting to dialogue, each brief essay opens a constructive path to common ground in a humanistic and sometimes humorous way. Highland draws from his love of nature, his years of interfaith chaplaincy and non-profit management and his emergence from faith, to engage ...
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A Secular Gospel
- More Essays for Freethinkers
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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One Nature Indivisible
- Explorations in Freethought
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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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 ...
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One Nature Indivisible
- Explorations in Freethought
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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Eye to Eye
- Peculiar Perspectives of a Freethinker
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Former minister and chaplain Chris Highland presents over 60 brief reflections and perspectives on nature and the nature of religion and secularism. from the Introduction: "This book is a little different from my other writing collections. I’ve drawn a few of these essays from the weekly columns I write for the Asheville Citizen-Times, but most of the brief jottings here are taken from various blogposts and short thinking-aloud moments on experimental websites. As with most of my wordsmithing, these writings are not for the “faint of faith” or the “aggressive of atheism.” I write ...
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Eye to Eye
- Peculiar Perspectives of a Freethinker
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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Simply Secular
- Essays for Happy Heretics
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Chris Highland, a former minister and chaplain who is now a freethinking humanist, brings together an assortment of essays from the last twenty years as he emerged from ministry and non-profit work and on into teaching, lecturing and writing. From the Preface: "To be simply secular may not actually be simple at all. As James Baldwin states, freethinkers aren’t often welcomed—some don’t want us around. Yet, we keep standing up, speaking out, raising our voices. Those of us who live with the questions need to keep asking them, pushing, pulling, nudging—we’re educators as well as ...
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Simply Secular
- Essays for Happy Heretics
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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Jesus and John Muir: A Wilderness Novel
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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A novella that celebrates one day and the encounter of two great storytellers. Two people who find that an intimate relationship with wild Nature can revolutionize their lives. “I met someone out there. He was no angel or prophet. I don’t think he was. He became my teacher, my rabbi, as no other rabbi. His name is John, and he comes from a green, rocky island, laced with rivers and lakes—“lochs” he calls them—far across the Great Sea. He taught me to learn from the land, from the earth. He got me to swim again! Then, he left me with a sadness I hadn’t felt since ...
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Jesus and John Muir: A Wilderness Novel
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Breath, Death and Koheleth
- A New, Secular Reading of Ecclesiastes
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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For many secular people, the Bible no longer offers anything of value. Dismissed as myth, legend and delusion, the ancient scriptures of the world should be thrown into the dustbin of history, they say. But what if timeless and timely wisdom can be salvaged from the old scrolls? What might both theists and atheists discover when a fresh perspective, energized by curiosity and respectful reason, blows the dust of centuries away? Humanist freethinker and former minister and chaplain, Chris Highland, takes a different road, offering another more constructive and inviting approach to one ...
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Breath, Death and Koheleth
- A New, Secular Reading of Ecclesiastes
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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The Affable, Amiable Apostate
- Sitting, Standing and Sauntering with a Sensible Secular
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Once a youthful apostle, now a mature apostate, Chris Highland adds to his collections of essays with more saunters into the secular world with a freethinker's perspective.
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The Affable, Amiable Apostate
- Sitting, Standing and Sauntering with a Sensible Secular
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Faith
- Reflections from the Good Journey
- By: Chris Highland
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Leaving home, especially a faith home, can be a challenging journey. In these essays, many drawn from his weekly columns in the Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, former minister and chaplain Chris Highland continues his explorations of the wilderness between faith and humanism. A secular freethinker who is not anti-religious, Highland reveals his respect for "respectable religion" while calling out the good actions of believers as well as the nonsense and dangerous elements of Christian Nationalism and superstition. Married to a minister himself, with many "friends in faith," Highland ...
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Once Upon a Faith
- Reflections from the Good Journey
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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Nature Is Enough
- Essays for Freethinkers
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Chris Highland continues his friendly style of freethought in this new collection of essays (not published in his weekly columns) circling the theme of Nature. Chapters include:Pathfinding; Dirty Glaciers;; Eulogy for a Pond; I Sing the Body Electricity; The Phone Tree; Lessons from the Treetops; Nature’s Scripture; Natural Economics; Life is Too Short; By the Hands of Nature; How Green is God?; Green Village; Touch of Death; Wonder and Wildness; Living Bridge; Ancoutahan; Nearer to Wonder; and Mini-Migrations.
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Nature Is Enough
- Essays for Freethinkers
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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My Address is a River
- A Place to Belong, Closer to Home
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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For nearly thirty years Chris Highland sauntered the rivers and streams of poverty and homelessness as an interfaith chaplain, teacher, shelter director and housing manager. His "practice of presence" among people who find themselves stuck on the muddy banks or in the swirling eddies of financial, housing or mental insecurity revealed something surprising. He discovered gifted ability among those who have disabilities, the meaning of freedom among incarcerated people and a profound sense of home among houseless women, men, youth and children. "Chaplain Chris," as he was affectionately known...
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My Address is a River
- A Place to Belong, Closer to Home
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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Was Jesus a Humanist?
- and other questionable essays
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Freethinker, humanist celebrant and former minister and chaplain, Chris Highland, links 25 concise essays that address controversial views of religion, faith and humanistic practice. Each essay hangs on a question-mark, with a central theme drawing on the title question: Was Jesus a Humanist? Essays include: Interview with a Strange Young Teacher? A Prophetic Professor’s Greatest Challenge? The Man from Nazareth: Liar, Lunatic or Lord? Was Jesus a Humanist? What if Believing Isn’t the Point? Leaving the Choir, Still Singing? Baby Gods? Saved from What? Open for Truth? Did Jesus Teach ...
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Was Jesus a Humanist?
- and other questionable essays
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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From Faith to Freethought
- A Natural Journey
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
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Chris Highland, a freethinking former minister and chaplain, leads readers on a hike along his winding trail emerging from faith. Without being anti-religious, and seeking to be honest but not disrespectful, he uses analogies from the natural world to frame his exit from a supernatural worldview. Chapters include: Forests of Freethought; The Broken Cross; Surviving the Shipwreck; Toward a New Island; The Way of the Pathfinder; A Map to Heaven on Earth. The Afterword is his essay: Why I’m Not an Evangelical Atheist. The book concludes with a concise outline of his trail beyond tradition: ...
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From Faith to Freethought
- A Natural Journey
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Birds, Beetles, Bears and Beliefs
- Reflections on Religion and Nature
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Author, teacher and freethinker, Chris Highland, brings together over 30 of his essays on natural and unnatural religion, nature and super-nature. Chapters include: We Could Have a Little More Faith, in Nature; When Ancient Religions Grow Older; Birds, Beetles, Bears and Beliefs; Pilgrimage to Seek the Resurrection of the Good; Kneeling and Planting for the Life of the People; An Ethiopian View of Nature, Beauty and the Divine; Elegant Incognito and the Art of the Wild; Wasps, Willows, Water and the Way of Wonder; Rich in Small Wonders but We’re Poor in Seeing Them; Genesis, God and the ...
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Birds, Beetles, Bears and Beliefs
- Reflections on Religion and Nature
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-22-24
- Language: English
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Beyond the Boundaries of Belief
- Selected Short Secular Essays
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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Essays from humanist freethinker, Chris Highland, explore the boundaries of belief. Includes chapters on: Freedom of Thought is Good for All; Who Builds and Buttresses the Boundaries of Belief?; Can You Be evangelical without being an Evangelical?; Sacraments, Screens and a Spirituality of Separation; Love the Believer, Hate the Beliefs?; Shining a Light on the Good Things We Do; Not for the Faint of Faith; Crazy for God; African Nativity: Stories of Refuge and Refugees; Pickpocketing, Freethinking and Breaking a Leg; Spinning with Spinoza; Charles Chesnutt’s Vision; Temple of Science, ...
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Beyond the Boundaries of Belief
- Selected Short Secular Essays
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Rambling Reflections for Irreverent Rebels
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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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).
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Rambling Reflections for Irreverent Rebels
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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Highland Views
- A Secular Columnist Writes on Religion
- By: Chris Highland
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- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Since 2016, Chris Highland has written weekly columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times in North Carolina. Drawing from his own experience in ministry and chaplaincy in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now writes as a freethinker from a humanist perspective. He engages many subjects and issues that concern people of faith--any faith--especially topics and ideas that also matter to non-religious people. Highland Views includes over 50 essays published as columns in the Citizen-Times. Writing with a tone of invitation, Highland welcomes readers across the spectrum from Evangelical to Atheist as ...
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Highland Views
- A Secular Columnist Writes on Religion
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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Intersections
- Freethought and Faith without Fear
- By: Chris Highland
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Another concise collection of selected short essays from Chris Highland, a freethinking humanist and former minister. With an inviting approach to the intersections of faith and freethought, the author presents a model for critical thinking beyond fearful faith and angry atheism. Companions along the way include: Sojourner Truth and John Muir, Margaret Fuller and Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin and Jesus of Nazareth, Charles Darwin and Booker T. Washington, Thomas Paine and Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Buber and Aldo Leopold. Many of these reflections come from the author's weekly "Highland ...
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Intersections
- Freethought and Faith without Fear
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-08-24
- Language: English
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