An exciting announcement! The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS), the organization that played an important role in the development of religious naturalism and the founding of RNA, is hosting a weeklong conference on Star Island NH
RNA Newsletter – June 2019
RNA Newsletter June, 2019 With it being my turn this month to write the newsletter, I took this as an occasion to look again, and more closely, at some of the resources at the RNA website – in particular, at
RNA Newsletter – May 2019
Hello dear friends — Last weekend I had the honor to offer two RN presentations at the UCC Circular Congregational Church in Charleston SC https://www.circularchurch.org/about. The pastor, Jeremy Rutledge, is an RNA member; the worship services are Christian-basedhttps://www.circularchurch.org/worship; the congregants span
RNA Newsletter – April 2019
Religious Naturalist Association Newsletter April 2019 Dear Friends, When I first went out on my own practicing law I complained that it was “feast or famine.” Either nobody walked in the door, or I was so busy I couldn’t see
RNA Newsletter – March 2019
RNA Newsletter – February 2019
Hello friends –The religious naturalist orientation is based on the adoption of “Everybody’s Story” – from Big Bang to galaxies to Earth to life to human life/culture – as one’s core narrative, supplemented with other narratives as desired.This central feature
RNA Newsletter – January, 2019
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
RNA Newsletter – December, 2018
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
RNA Newsletter – November, 2018
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,
RNA Newsletter – October, 2018
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