RNA Members' Blog

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Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow

Among the many resources and links that Michael and Connie provide, featured items at The Great Story website include:“Standing for the Future” (3 videotaped live, multimedia presentations for individual study and/or group discussion),Deep Sustainability audios, and a...

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Alix Robin

Alix Robin describes herself as a religious naturalist and soon to be an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and also an artist, writer, and mother. She has created Campfire Ministry a simple form of small groupministry that involves a dark room with either a...

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Rua Lupa

Rua Lupa, from Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, discovered RNA.org online, and shared information on a tradition/philosophy they formed, called Ehoah, that is based on The Three Basic Tenets described in this graphic. This is described at the Ehoah website and at a...

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Larry Rifkin

Larry Rifkin is a pediatrician who recently created a video,“Evolution Will Change How You See The World” which, as itillustrates a range of wondrous aspects of life, highlights the roleof evolution and urges us not to compromise the future of thisgreat epic. Larry...

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Robert Howard

A book of poems by Robert Howard was published this year. It’s called “Unity Tree” and includes “Alone”, which is coped below, and organized in five sections: Our Island Home, Music of the Spheres, Human Family Picnic, Ancient Footprints and A Place to Call Home. For...

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Jane Penfield

Jane is a painter who, at her website, introduces her work by saying “I am drawn to the landscape through the changing seasons . . . All of my work is an expression of nature as I have experienced it . . .” Jane describes the Pioneer Valley in New England as a place...

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Paul Martin

Paul has written poetry and essays that combine perceptions from a mystical experience with the challenge of a progressive illness that has kept him house-bound and, now, mostly bedridden. One example can be seen at NPR’s On Being blog where, as guest contributer, he...

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JD Stillwater

JD Stillwater is a science ambassador and cultural worker. He speaks and writes about profound revelations and insights from natural reality. From The Parliament of the World’s Religions to academic conferences and civic groups, JD Stillwater moves and inspires...

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David Kundtz

David has worked as a psychotherapist and encourages “stopping” as a response to the rush of modern life. He defines “Stopping” as “Doing nothing intentionally – for a minute or a month – in order to wake up and remember who you are.” His website describes and gives...

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Brent E. White

Brent is a retired Navy officer who teaches art and carves wildlife figures for merry-go-rounds, including several that feature endangered species. Some of his work can be seen at the Indianapolis Zoo and at Badlands National Park. He wrote a book for children, The...

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