RNA Members' Blog

RNA members are invited to submit articles for posting here.

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Chris Highland

Chris Highland was a Presbyterian minister and Interfaith chaplain in the San Francisco Bay area for many years. Now a Humanist celebrant, he teaches and writes in Western North Carolina.  His classes and books center on the nature of Freethought and freethinking...

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Carl Axelsen

Carl Axelsen

Carl Axelsen After retiring, Carl began volunteer work at environmental non-profit groups in Oregon. He became certified as a Master Watershed Steward and ran a local watershed stewardship organization. He was President of the Tryon Creek Watershed Council, and now...

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Lane Tracy

Lane is a composer of many choral works, some of which include religious naturalist themes. He compiled some of them into a Missa Natura consisting of eight movements, which is scheduled to be performed by the choir of the UU Fellowship of Raleigh in April. Some...

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Marshall Lewis

Marshall Lewis

Marshall Lewis Marshall recently completed a post-graduate program in Religious Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His final year of consisted of writing a paper: “The Atheistic Religious Naturalism of Goodenough, Crosby and Rue.” Marshall is now...

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Sam Guarnaccia

Sam Guarnaccia

Sam Guarnaccia Sam’s website includes photo, audio, and video galleries plus descriptions and samples from compositions, including a Celtic Mass for Peace, the Emergent Universe Oratorio, and Children’s Peace Songs. For a start, you might check a choral performance –...

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Sam Guarnaccia

Sam’s website includes photo, audio, and video galleries plus descriptions and samples from compositions, including a Celtic Mass for Peace, the Emergent Universe Oratorio, and Children’s Peace Songs. For a start, you might check a choral performance – the third...

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Maximus Thaler

At his website, Maximus describes himself as “a wandering scholar, artist, activist, chef”. Our reviewer particularly liked items in the Creations area, including wire sculptures and photography.

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Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett Michael Barrett wants to connect with religious naturalists in the UK. He has contacted some UK periodicals with a view to publishing articles or book reviews on RN, and has provided information about RNA to some groups in the UK. He has also written...

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Roger Gillette

Roger Gillette Speaking of the Open Forum, we also recently posted a piece by Roger Gillette. At age 97, Roger is our oldest member.

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Lynne Quarmby

For folks who didn’t see the posting at religiousnaturalism.org, we’ll again mention Lynne Quarmby’s recent ecologic activism, where she was part of a group arrested in a protest to block the extension of a tar sand pipeline through Burnaby Mountain near...

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