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Janet Marugg

Janet Marugg is an avid gardener, reader and writer living in Clarkston, Washington, with her husband, Ed, and boxer dog, Poppy. She is a nature lover, a lifelong learner and a secular humanist. She can be reached at janetmarugg7@gmail.com.
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Why Laughter Is Democracy’s Best Defense Against Authoritarianism

When the world seems drunk with despair and any moment is the one that can ruin a whole life I admittedly flee to comedy for both the relief and the cure. Laughter is a grossly under-prescribed fixer of things – both an anesthetic escape and a delivered cure.
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Ancient Buddhist goddess Guanyin embraces nature’s gender spectrum

Read how in the author's garden of light and bamboo, Guanyin, goddess of mercy, rests — transcending gender, belief and time.
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‘Is God real’ arguments distract us from truth

Arguments for God's existence breed endless counters. So, without evidence or clarity, belief becomes imagination, not truth-seeking.
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Protect public schools: Keep religious instruction — and its cover-ups — out.

This column communicates how church abuse scandals don’t belong in public schools. Religious instruction and its cover-ups need to stay out of classrooms.
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Protecting human rights shouldn’t be up for debate

Trump pulled the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and this columnist can't understand why. She prescribes a way forward.
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When time destroys, art breathes new life

A sleepless mind at 2 a.m. grapples with time, change and the transformative power of art, finding solace in creativity’s resistance to decay.
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How a bishop and humanist found peace in their shared childhood faith

A bishop and a humanist find peace in their shared childhood faith, navigating differences as adults without the need to change each other’s beliefs.
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