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June 2022

June 23, 2022

Spirituality After COVID

by Gregory Gronbacher Into our third year of the pandemic, we are realizing that COVID has...

June 18, 2022

Rewilding Humanity

by Daniel Shkolnik Photo by Dylan Taylor “Rewilding,” is the theme for the first season of...

June 16, 2022

Living with the Ambiguity of the Modern World

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Stefani Ruper. See short bio below). The...

June 09, 2022

Mindfulness in Everyday Life

by DT Strain A 2014 study on mindfulness and equanimity phrased mindfulness as, “the quality of mind...

June 09, 2022

Getting my DNA Scanned

by Eric Steinhart Since I suffer from several chronic illnesses, I got my genes scanned...

June 02, 2022

Lessons From the Origins of Life

January 17, 2019 by Brock Haussamen I’ve been following discussions over at the Religious Naturalist Association about...

June 02, 2022

Journey to the East and Back

by Thomas Schenk After I rejected the Christian religion foisted on me by my parents, like...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

Fear, Anger, Peace, and Joy

by DT Strain Someone, maybe you, has been feeling angry about politics. Another, maybe you,...

May 26, 2022

The Present That’s Simply Present

by Thomas Schenk A bumper sticker I saw today read: “Don’t worship the creation, worship the...

May 19, 2022

My Evolving “Prayer” Practice

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Edward Kelly Jr. See bio below.) I...

May 19, 2022

Endurance

by Jeff Worthy The last few years have proven to be challenging for us all; we...

May 15, 2022

When Our Spiritual Practice Doesn’t Deliver

by Dennis Oliver Photo by Ryan Melaugh I recently sat down with a close friend,...

May 15, 2022

Befriending Death, Embracing Life

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer James Jarrett. See bio below.) A gracious lady...

May 05, 2022

Always Where You Never Expect It: A Meditation on Evil

by Jeff Worthy King Arthur: “Tell me, Merlin, have we defeated evil, as it seems we...

May 05, 2022

A Power Within?

by Thomas Schenk I feel it now: there’s a power in me to grasp and give...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

Opus 50: The One and the Many

by Thomas Schenk (I was looking back over the articles I’ve published on SNS during the...

April 28, 2022

Spiritual Naturalism – As Its Own Tradition?

by Gregory Gronbacher An Independent Tradition? At the top of this page you’ll see in the...

April 24, 2022

Coping with Being Human

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Stefani Ruper.) One of the most important components...

April 24, 2022

Sacred Work

by Daniel Shkolnik Do we choose our purpose? Or does our purpose choose us? In...

April 14, 2022

Naturalizing the Pagan Deities

by Eric Steinhart Ancient Greek and Roman mythology portrayed the Olympic deities as super-human animals. ...

April 14, 2022

The Empathy Deficit

by SNS Guest (Article is by Edward Kelly Jr. For brief bio, see below.) In my...

April 07, 2022

Our Actual “Eve”

by Brock Haussamen She lived about 150,000 years ago in southern Africa. Today she is...

April 07, 2022

Mindless Musings on Mindfulness (or Mindful Musings on Mindlessness)

by Thomas Schenk I have been re-reading the book Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, a...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Calming the Waters

by Daniel Scharpenburg “Waves roughen the sea and windmill turn because of the wind. Take...

March 31, 2022

Response to “Can One Be Both A Naturalist and Postmodern?”

by SNS Guest (Today’s article is by guest writer Jon Cleland. There is a short bio...

March 25, 2022

Imagine That

by Thomas Schenk What is real? It is common sense to distinguish the real from the...

March 25, 2022

Does Magic Work?

By Eric Steinhart Does magic work? I mean: does it work objectively, not merely psychologically....

March 17, 2022

Buddha Is As Buddha Does

by Dennis Oliver Buddha instructing his disciples. Preface: Although the following remarks are limited to explicit...

March 17, 2022

Half Sick of Shadows

by Jeff Worthy I am continually amazed how truly timeless literature can appeal to us in...

March 10, 2022

Out of Time

by Jeff Worthy Recently, a specific line from Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (the film script, actually)...

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