Reading Time: 9 minutes What began as a practical solution to a problem in my Chicago neighborhood became a public act of meaning-making and a secular memorial.
Tony Wolf
Tony Wolf is a writer (mostly nonfiction, one prose novel, one graphic novel, one play) and educator, formerly an action director/choreographer for feature films, TV, theater, opera and ballet. Born in one hemisphere and now resident in another, he is a life-long skeptic and rationalist with a deep interest in the diversity of human belief systems and in the potentials of nontheistic soulfulness. He occasionally pines for the good old days of swinging sacred sledgehammers on mountaintops.
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One life: Imagining a radical acceptance of death
Reading Time: 6 minutes A few radical thinkers, scattered across the centuries, have seen death as a frame that illuminates life and an ultimately beautiful promise.
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Oscar Wilde’s ‘Confraternity of the Faithless’
Reading Time: 6 minutes It is sad – one half of the world does not believe in God and the other half does not believe in me. — OSCAR WILDE On the 7th of July in 1896, Anglo-Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was incarcerated at Reading Prison for “gross indecency”—what would now be simply described as gay sex. He […]