Tolbert H. McCarroll

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McCarroll, Tolbert H. [Brother Toby] (20th Century)

McCarroll was an attorney who helped prevent civil rights legislation from excluding atheists. He also was executive director of the American Humanist Association in the 1960s.

He then became primarily interested in Humanistic Psychology, then in Catholicism, and finally became Brother Toby, head of a Catholic monastery. Although ex-Catholics become non-theistic freethinkers (e.g., Mary McCarthy), McCarroll is one of a handful of freethinkers who have made the reverse trip.

Thinking with the Heart: A Monk (And Parent) Explores His Christian Heritage (2001) and A Winter Walk (2006) are two of his more recent works. Also, he has translated Lao Tzu's The Tao Te Ching.

Correspondence

Before returning to religion, and when he was a non-believing secular humanist, McCarroll wrote to Warren Allen Smith, who operated a Hvmanist Book Clvb under the name of Lvcretivs.