About

Chris Highland is the author of six Natural Wisdom books.  He is a teacher and writer living in the SF Bay Area, USA.  He was an interfaith (open-minded, freethinking) chaplain for many years working with prisoners and homeless persons.  Chris is a former protestant minister who gave up his church ordination for reasons of conscience and relevance.  His spiritual autobiography Life After Faith, as well as his novella, children’s book, a collection of poetry and numerous essays can be accessed here.

Each of Chris’ books is enhanced by his black and white Nature photographs and each selection from Muir, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Fuller and Burroughs is paired with a wise saying from thinkers and artists from around the world.

Currently Chris is reading Douglas Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior (on Theodore Roosevelt), Biophilia by E.O. Wilson, Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World, Michael Shermer’s The Believing Brain, The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, as well as online articles on Nature and Politics from the New York Times, the BBC, Huffington Post and many others.  He regularly views clips of The Daily Show with John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, George Carlin and the Monty Python gang to keep a good sense of humor.

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