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Next week – March 24, 2024
Picking Jefferson's Pocket
Chris Highland
During the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson wrote “Notes on the State of Virginia” (1781). The chapter on “Religion” remains as relevant today as in those days of risky and radical change. With an emphasis on religious tolerance, reason, free inquiry and common sense, this freethinking founder hands us practical wisdom for our mental pockets today. His handy “rule of thumb” for inclusion of diverse beliefs in America, can help us maintain and sustain (patch and protect) the essential wall of separation between religion and government, the wall that is crumbling before our eyes.
Chris Highland is a humanist freethinker, teacher and writer. He teaches courses on Freethought, Humanism, Christian Nationalism and other subjects while drawing from his past life as a Protestant minister and Interfaith chaplain in the San Francisco Bay Area.
For the last 7 years, he has written the weekly “Highland Views” column for the Asheville Citizen-Times. Since Pisgah Press published his first collection of columns in A Freethinker’s Gospel (2018), he has published nearly 20 books.
Chris and his wife, the Rev. Carol Hovis, live in Asheville.
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