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August 2014

August 20, 2014
This article is written by guest-writer, Maggie Jay Lee… Elizabeth Vandiver states in a Teaching Company Course that...
August 07, 2014
Review by DT Strain for the Spiritual Naturalist Society Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality...

July 2014

July 01, 2014
We’ve all been in frustrating situations such as standing in a long line in a...

June 2014

June 30, 2014
The Tao Te Chingis a book about leadership and governance.  Many of its chapters are...
June 27, 2014
Were there Spiritual Naturalists in the ancient world? This is the central question of this...
June 24, 2014
The following is a description of a ritual I have designed to precede and follow...

March 2014

March 12, 2014
Our Education Director, B.T. Newberg, has published an article for us discussing the role of...
March 12, 2014
Editor's note: What we pay attention to is important, and Thomas suggests paying attention the...

February 2014

February 24, 2014
The Blues and Abstract Truth is the title of a jazz album by Oliver Nelson...
February 24, 2014
Acknowledgement: This article is based on Science and the Sage which is written by myself...
February 18, 2014
The Chinese word Tao and Western phrase the Laws of Nature refer to largely the...
February 18, 2014
In the age of Darwin, what do we still have to learn from philosophers like...
February 11, 2014
FYI to our readers: Many Spiritual Naturalists do not use a concept of God or...
February 11, 2014
Our life exists in a context. In naturalistic terms we might say that this context...

January 2014

January 20, 2014
Have you ever had a friend who just seems to make one bad decision after...
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...
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