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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
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 this man was exploring and writing about a lot...
Everybody’s Story
EVERYBODY’S STORY: WISING UP TO THE EPIC OF EVOLUTION Loyal D. Rue. State University of New York Press, 1999 (SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology, D.E. Shaner, Editor) TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreward by Edward O. Wilson Preface Introduction Part I: How...
On Freedom
Book review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom Jason Keune In Maggie Nelson’s new book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, she invokes, or rather curates, a vast landscape of contemporary thought and thinkers in an expansive exploration of a rich, yet elusive...
Finding the Mother Tree
I’m writing to recommend a book. Finding the Mother Tree – Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Dr. Suzanne Simard. Simard has put together summations and descriptions of her experiments and findings from her career as a forest ecologist that started as a child in a...
Diary of a Young Naturalist
I shared a poem recently and it came from this remarkable book by Dara McAnulty - Diary of A Young Naturalist. It is probably more about autism than nature. But I am stunned by the brilliance of this young autistic man whatever the intent of his writing. I'm left...
Poetry by Janisse Ray
Noticing 1. I would not have seen the weba spider strung between us and skyexcept the sun crested the cliffalong the Bay of Fundy. Finallyour long night beside Mill Creekwas over: I greeted the light.A shimmer is not a moon-blade,not the disk of sun platingtips of red...
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