Author: tfindlay

Friends, Mary Oliver died last week. Her poem “Wild Geese” inspires our logo, and I’m betting that many of you, like me, have begun talks or meditations with her poems. My only regret is that we never reached out to

Solstice sun, as a brilliant star, superimposed over a photo of the Milky Way (what it might look like, if we could see beyond the light of the sun on this day). NASA Image of the Day, December 21, 2017

Dear Religious Naturalists – Thankfulness. I had the pleasure of hosting a second Boston-area RNA weekend retreat at my house on Martha’s Vineyard two weekends ago. Our toast above is lifted to you all. Some of us knew each other,

Friends, Theoretically there is nothing holy about numbers, but still we humans respond to symbols, including numerical markers.  Maybe that is why I cannot contain my excitement that our membership during this last month reached the 500-person mark.  What’s of

One recent conversation at RNAnet was about things that people might do – as part of a religious naturalist orientation. We don’t need to do anything at all. But, since some look for ways to make a spiritual orientation more prominent in

The religious naturalist orientation has two words, religious and naturalist. Persons who take seriously the arc of our science-based understandings of nature might be called “vanilla” naturalists, while those who go on to explore religious responses to those understandings, including

Religious Naturalist Newsletter July, 2018 Friends, I have always been a proponent of the “go slow” approach, and it has been very satisfying to see how our organization has developed with virtually no marketing. That said, I often get letters

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? The first two questions in this painting by Paul Gauguin can be answered, largely, with science. But the third presents a challenge and choices to be made –

Dearest RNA-ers, In his March newsletter, Todd lifts up the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism (2018) with many chapters written by RNA members. The book has a hefty price tag, unfortunately, but it’s a milestone in the

Dear Friends, I am completely confident that the religious naturalist worldview will eventually be the default worldview of most people (never 100% of course). What I don’t know is the route to get there. Will it be through organizations like