Beyond the Boundaries of Belief: Selected Short Secular Essays

by Chris Highland

Essays from humanist freethinker, Chris Highland, explore the boundaries of belief.
Includes chapters 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 Stories of Refuge and Refugees; Pickpocketing, Freethinking and Breaking a Leg; Spinning with Spinoza; Charles Chesnutt’s Vision; Temple of Science, and many more.Drawing from a long career as a progressive chaplain, Highland writes from a perspective that invites conversation and relationships, not an angry, anti-religious viewpoint.

For freethinkers with or without a faith.

173 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 13, 2022

About the author

Author of Broken Bridges (2020), A Freethinker's Gospel (2018) as well as six natural meditation books beginning with Meditations of John Muir (2001); also Life After Faith (2010), My Address is a River (2010), the novel Jesus and John Muir (2010), Nature is Enough (2013) and other web-published works including poetry, essays and a childrens' book.

A former minister and chaplain in the SF Bay Area, he is now a freethinking humanist celebrant who teaches and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Chris writes the weekly "Highland Views" column for the Citizen-Times and blogs at www.chighland.com.