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The Rise of Religious Naturalism

The Rise of Religious Naturalism:  A New Public Theology of Sacred Nature Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.                                                 …

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Radical Faeries as Nature Religion: The Sixteenth Essay for “The New American Religions of Nature”

Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.  I arrived in San Francisco as a young queer man from the East Coast, carrying the habits and horizons of a world in which spirituality had been defined by Christian liturgies and secular intellectual life, with…

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WALKING THE EARTH PATH

WALKING THE EARTH PATH: EXPLORING THE SPIRITUAL COMMON CORE OF NATURE RELIGIONS SERIES: THE NEW AMERICAN RELIGIONS OF NATURE,INTRODUCTION PART 2 Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.

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The Earth, The Gods, and the Soul by Brendan Myers, a review by John Halstead

Brendan Myers’s book The Earth, The Gods, and the Soul is like candy for a philosophy lover like me.  If philo-sophy is the “love of wisdom”, then I am a lover of the lover of wisdom, a philo-philosophe.  And a book…

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The Gadfly: A Socratic Interrogation of Naturalism, by B. T. Newberg

Today we continue our late-winter theme of “Order and Structure” with B. T. Newberg’s Socratic interrogation of naturalism. Socrates was known as the gadfly of Athens because he asked the questions no one wanted to answer. While waiting in line for his…

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