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January 2014
January 15, 2014
It isn’t easy living in reality. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And sometimes...
December 2013
December 17, 2013
We are at the beginning of an important movement to gather again, a spirituality that...
November 2013
November 27, 2013
I don't often use the term 'atheist' to describe myself, because my lack of someone...
November 11, 2013
We generally think of religious freedom in terms of coercion by others, political or social...
October 2013
October 01, 2013
The more I've learned about naturalistic spirituality and spiritual practice, the more I've come to...
September 2013
September 24, 2013
In the many discourses I host or participate in, both online with our members, and...
September 18, 2013
Hello friends! Today (September 18, 2013) marks one year since the Spiritual Naturalist Society officially...
September 17, 2013
Writing my first column for spiritualnaturalistsociety.org , I’m going to assume, appropriately or not, that...
September 09, 2013
There is a folktale from India called The King and the Corpse. At the beginning...
August 2013
August 30, 2013
Reaching inward, we discover our participation in something greater than what we normally call ourselves....
August 27, 2013
In relationships with other people, we participate in something greater than ourselves. This post continues...
August 09, 2013
I’ve been an artist as long as I can remember. My father is a traditional...
August 05, 2013
Often in reading philosophy and wisdom teachings, one has a kind of repeating experience. We...
July 2013
July 30, 2013
We all face times when it seems there is little genuine love in the world....
July 24, 2013
“What better place is there to ride a bike than right here, right now?” I...
July 21, 2013
This morning my wife discovered that the left side mirror on her car had been...
July 16, 2013
As my wife and I slogged along on our bicycles, generally irritated at each...
July 10, 2013
One of the side effects of being a happy person is that unhappy people...
July 01, 2013
Deep in the mountains of South Korea, a cicada hummed its last. Walking along the...
April 2013
April 05, 2013
The Spiritual Naturalist Society is proud to announce that the Charter for Compassion and the...
February 2013
February 26, 2013
Drumming is an ancient art that has played a ritualistic and spiritual role in different...
February 21, 2013
“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit...
February 11, 2013
More and more I have come to realize that happiness is a matter of reflection....
February 04, 2013
Skeptics have often been accused of being cynical, negative, etc. They will (quite appropriately) correct...
January 2013
January 22, 2013
Many philosophies and wisdom traditions have independently come to realize that anguish and emotional suffering...
January 17, 2013
This is the second of a 2-part series on spiritual transformation (link to part 1)....
January 14, 2013
In this 2-part series, we will not only look at spiritual transformation in detail, but...
January 10, 2013
Job descriptions help us know that we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. So...
January 07, 2013
In studying ancient philosophy (the very thoughts that shaped the course of later ideas, culture,...
January 03, 2013
This is the final part of a 4-part series which explains, in each part, one...
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