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August 2024

August 14, 2024

The Naturalistic Equivalent of God

by Thomas Schenk In recent posts here, I’ve been developing the idea of a naturalistic...

August 31, 2023

Understanding Christian Naturalism

by Gregory Gronbacher Introduction At its core, Christian naturalism is a philosophical and theological perspective that...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

It is Happening Now

by Daniel Shkolnik The point of this writing is not to make a rational argument or...

June 20, 2023

A Look at Our SNS Community Half-Way Through 2023

June 15, 2023 by Gregory Gronbacher We’re considering this image, created by Danial Strain, for our new...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

Opus 100: My View of Spiritual Naturalism

by Thomas Schenk This article is my 100th for SNS. Taken together, these articles present a...

April 2023

April 15, 2023

What Spiritual Naturalism Means to Me

by James Jarrett Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

The Story of Master Huineng

by Daniel Scharpenburg The 600s in Southern China. This place was considered a backwater, a place...

March 26, 2023

The Sacred and the Profane

by Thomas Schenk In his book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, sociologist Emile Durkheim begins his...

March 10, 2023

What Do All Spiritual Naturalists Have in Common?

by B. T. Newberg (When there are five Thursdays in a month, such as this month,...

March 06, 2023

Butterflies: Spirituality in a Naturalist Mode

by Dennis Oliver What are we talking about when we discuss spirituality? During the last decade,...

December 2022

December 31, 2022

The Case for Religious Fictionalism: or How to Lead a Religious Life Without Faith or Belief

by SNS Guest (Article is by guest writer Rob Wheeler. See bio below.) All religion is...

November 2022

November 24, 2022

The Natural Soul & Socrates

by DT Strain Plato’s book of Phaedo may be especially important in ancient Greek philosophic concepts on the...

November 07, 2022

Soul of the World

by Thomas Schenk Photo by Matt Deavenport, from Flickr I keep a book titled, The Soul of...

May 2022

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

Spiritual Naturalism – As Its Own Tradition?

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

April 14, 2022

The Empathy Deficit

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

January 2022

January 20, 2022

The All-Inclusive (What Naturalism Means to Me)

by Thomas Schenk There is no agreement about a precise definition of the word “naturalism,”...

December 2021

December 09, 2021

Developing Spiritual Naturalism

by Eric Steinhart It’s often hard to define spiritual naturalism. Movements like Stoicism or Westernized Buddhism...

December 03, 2021

Humboldt’s Vision of Nature

by Brock Haussamen Our ecological imagination—our sense of nature as a global, interconnected and sacred whole—has roots...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

Breaking Free

by DT Strain There has been a small resurgence of interest in cults in popular media...

September 02, 2021

Spirituality: A Personal View, Part III

by Thomas Schenk Death Most forms of spirituality are based on some notion of life after...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

The Limits of Naturalism?

By Gregory Gronbacher Holding the Tension of Two Views Spiritual naturalists live with the tension...

August 26, 2021

On Disability

by Eric Steinhart (cc) Michael Shaheen I’m getting old and my body hurts in many...

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...

June 2021

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...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

The Spirit Tree

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

May 19, 2021

Spiritual Lifehacking

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

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,...

March 2021

March 24, 2021

Mediterranean Magic

by Jeff Worthy Vernazza at Twilight Have you ever been in the presence of magic? I...

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