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RNA Newsletter July 2022Religious Naturalism: An Open Minded OrientationHello good people, I have been thinking and writing lately about how entrenched belief systems can become and what might help to loosen them enough to allow new ideas to penetrate their seemingly...

June 2022RNA and the Deep Transformation Network   Hello Dear People - RNA can be thought of as an umbrella, an on-line affiliation of religious naturalists who take nature to mind and heart, where most if not all of us consider social justice and environmental...

May 2022As an extension of something that’s been done in the past, this newsletter takes a step toward what can potentially become a type of Religious Naturalist magazine. One point of reference in this is alumni magazines, which, for college communities, describe...

April 2022 Natural Rituals I don’t have a case of ritual envy, I really don’t. But my neighborhood is about 40% Catholic, and during the Easter season they do this cool thing where they put posters (made by each family) out on the street – on a tree or on stakes in...

March 2022 Vladimir Putin’s Anti-Naturalist Mind "The Face of War" by Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko. Made with 5,000 bullet casings. In a recent opinion piece in the The Guardian entitled “What’s going on inside Putin’s mind? His own words give us a disturbing...

Hello RNAers – This being Black History Month, and also the February 12 birthdays of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, I’ve excerpted below a few paragraphs from the second edition of my book The Sacred Depths of Nature (under contract with Oxford University...