A collection of seventy brief vignettes on homelessness and "people of the edge" drawn from 25 years of interfaith chaplaincy in jails and on the streets. The author also directed an emergency shelter and managed senior housing in the SF Bay Area.
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.