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August 2021

August 12, 2021

Jewish Religious Tradition and Spirituality in a Naturalistic Perspective

(This article is written by guest writer Aron Gamman.) Exploring Judaism through the lens of...

August 12, 2021

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part II

by Thomas Schenk Riding The Bull – No. 6 Spirituality Is Not Religion Spirituality and...

August 05, 2021

Hakuin and the Accusation

by Daniel Scharpenburg A zen story: A zen teacher named Hakuin lived in a small...

August 05, 2021

Nature Notices Death

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer James Jarrett. See bio below.) I wrote...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

Facing Defeat and Despair with Compassion

by Dennis Oliver (This article is written by Dennis Oliver…) Is it not so, that...

July 29, 2021

Psychedelics and Spiritual Practice

by DT Strain At the Spiritual Naturalist Society, we write and talk about contemplative spiritual practices of...

July 22, 2021

Can You Be Perfect? Football as an Allegory for Religion and Life

by Jeff Worthy Author’s note: One day as I looked around my Unitarian church congregation on...

July 22, 2021

Running as a Spiritual Practice

by Eric Steinhart I’ve recently taken up running at the ripe old age of 61. I...

July 16, 2021

The Creative Spirit

by Jeff Worthy Sometimes the ideas just come to...

July 14, 2021

Stroke of Luck

by Thomas Schenk In a humorous address to a graduating high school class, the writer Bill...

July 11, 2021

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part I

Spirituality, A Personal View – Part I by Thomas Schenk Spirituality is the creative activity wherein...

July 08, 2021

Why Compassion?

by DT Strain We talk a lot about compassion here at the Society. It’s even in...

July 02, 2021

Ants As Pets and Pests

by SNS Guest (Today’s article is by guest writer Brock Haussamen. For brief bio, see below.)...

July 01, 2021

Mysticism and Beauty

by Eric Steinhart I’m prone to mystical experiences. I’ve had six that were sufficiently intense that...

June 2021

June 24, 2021

Should Naturalists Celebrate the Decline of Christianity?

by Gregory Gronbacher Our crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and...

June 24, 2021

Bodhicitta: The Mind of Awakening

by Daniel Scharpenburg Bodhicitta is the quality that drives away the suffering in ourselves and others....

June 18, 2021

Maps of the Soul

by Daniel Shkolnik I don’t trust the Zodiac. The Tarot isn’t too different from a Rorschach...

June 17, 2021

“Damn It, It’s MY Body That’s At Stake”: Autonomy, Sociality and Imperfect Choices

by Brock Haussamen My family were swapping medical grievances one evening—flawed diagnoses, unwanted side effects, useless...

June 10, 2021

Of the Earth

by Thomas Schenk In his book, The Saviors of God, Nikos Kazantzakis writes: “Earth rises up in...

June 09, 2021

The River of Contemplation (Nature and Soul, the Sacred Unity)

by Thomas Schenk When I was young, I lived in a house on the banks of...

June 06, 2021

Stoicism’s God: The God of Nature

By Kai Whiting (Today’s article is by guest writer Kai Whiting. For brief bio, see...

June 03, 2021

Sense of the Sacred

by DT Strain Last week Thomas Schenk wrote an excellent article on the sacred. This week Daniel Strain...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

The Spirituality of Starting Again

by Eric Steinhart The pandemic has transformed our lives in many ways. Some of us have...

May 26, 2021

The Spirit Tree

by Thomas Schenk In the Grand Portage Indian Reservation on the North Shore of Lake Superior,...

May 23, 2021

Mind Over Matter

by Jeff Worthy We are living in difficult times. There are signs of recovery and...

May 19, 2021

Spiritual Lifehacking

by Eric Steinhart A naturalist affirms that every human person is exactly identical with his or...

May 13, 2021

The Evangelical Blindspot: Racism

by SNS Guest (Article is by Ed Kelly Jr. For brief bio, see below.) As a...

May 12, 2021

Experiences of Awakening

by Daniel Scharpenburg We have the potential to experience moments of awakening, temporary experiences of enlightenment....

May 06, 2021

Reading a Spiritual Text

by Thomas Schenk Over the years I have read and reread many of the central writings...

May 05, 2021

Four Spiritual Naturalist Poems by Dennis Oliver

by Dennis Oliver A Moment For a moment “emptiness” made sense, strange tense: more than present,...

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