My Ten Principles of Religious Naturalism

My Ten Principles of Religious Naturalism by V.V. Raman 1. To regard the variety and range of the world around as manifestations of Nature and her laws: This to me is the philosophical perspective of Religious Naturalism. 2. Not just to observe and explain, but to...

The Adjective “religious” in Religious Naturalism

The Adjective “religious” in Religious Naturalism by Michael Cavanaugh My personal emphasis is on the noun Naturalism. My particular orientation within Religious Naturalism is best labeled – plain vanilla naturalism. It does not use god-language to express the...

An RN Invocation

An RN Invocation by V.V. Raman We pay homage to the wonder and splendor of Nature whose inexorable laws sustain the universe, from the minutest to the most magnificent. We pay homage to Nature whose magic of chemistry gave rise to the first palpitations of life on...

We need to appreciate what we are and what we are parts of

We need to appreciate what we are and what we are parts of by Eugene Troxell In my mind Nature is not static. I like to try to imagine the impossible scenario of a large group of scientists observing the Big Bang at a time frame of about a million years of Big Bang...
The Patterning Instinct

The Patterning Instinct

The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent  I first came across Jeremy Lent’s work about a year before The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search For Meaning was published. I’m not sure how I stumbled onto his website but I soon realized that...