Stumbling on The Sacred Wonders of Wilderness When I was 11 years old my family moved out of the city of Victoria, BC to a nearby rural community. It was a move from a duplex in an urban setting to, what was at the time, a rural community and a house on a sizeable...
Today, February 15, UPS delivered a hardcover copy of my new book, The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Emerged and Evolved. It was the first time I’d held the real thing in my hands. What did I experience as I stood there on the porch? A very deep YES. I all but...
Noticing, Appreciating, and Caring At a time when the New England “winter”, so far, has been the warmest of my life, it’s been interesting seeing and experiencing things that had not been seen before – like types of ice that form on grass after rain, and patterns...
Friends, Four days a week I go to a little gym, so small I am sometimes the only one there. But most days there is at least one other person, which tends to encourage conversation. I’m amazed at how quickly these conversations turn to matters of basic worldview, which...
Dear Friends,I hope you enjoy this story of how a song with a religious naturalist message came to be. Forever Coming Home Stories about lost souls struggling to find their ways home abound. In many of the stories the protagonist eventually finds a “key” that opens a...
Hello dear RNA folk – Three items this month. First, a new offering on our website is called Related Groups, where we’ve assembled short descriptions and links to 11 associations that are science-based and have an RN flavor but place emphasis on particular RN facets...
