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It isn’t easy living in reality. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And sometimes...

We are at the beginning of an important movement to gather again, a spirituality that...

I don't often use the term 'atheist' to describe myself, because my lack of someone...

We generally think of religious freedom in terms of coercion by others, political or social...

The more I've learned about naturalistic spirituality and spiritual practice, the more I've come to...

In the many discourses I host or participate in, both online with our members, and...

Hello friends! Today (September 18, 2013) marks one year since the Spiritual Naturalist Society officially...

Writing my first column for spiritualnaturalistsociety.org , I’m going to assume, appropriately or not, that...

There is a folktale from India called The King and the Corpse. At the beginning...

Reaching inward, we discover our participation in something greater than what we normally call ourselves....

In relationships with other people, we participate in something greater than ourselves. This post continues...

I’ve been an artist as long as I can remember. My father is a traditional...

Often in reading philosophy and wisdom teachings, one has a kind of repeating experience. We...

We all face times when it seems there is little genuine love in the world....

“What better place is there to ride a bike than right here, right now?” I...

This morning my wife discovered that the left side mirror on her car had been...

  As my wife and I slogged along on our bicycles, generally irritated at each...

  One of the side effects of being a happy person is that unhappy people...

Deep in the mountains of South Korea, a cicada hummed its last. Walking along the...

The Spiritual Naturalist Society is proud to announce that the Charter for Compassion and the...

Drumming is an ancient art that has played a ritualistic and spiritual role in different...

“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit...

More and more I have come to realize that happiness is a matter of reflection....

Skeptics have often been accused of being cynical, negative, etc. They will (quite appropriately) correct...

Many philosophies and wisdom traditions have independently come to realize that anguish and emotional suffering...

This is the second of a 2-part series on spiritual transformation (link to part 1)....

In this 2-part series, we will not only look at spiritual transformation in detail, but...

Job descriptions help us know that we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. So...

In studying ancient philosophy (the very thoughts that shaped the course of later ideas, culture,...

This is the final part of a 4-part series which explains, in each part, one...