Get Surfing lists websites on interfaith dialogue and religious freedom, including UK interfaith networks, Gresham College lectures, human-rights monitors and sites for learning about other religions.
Patti Whaley reviews John Caputo’s On Religion, a postmodern reading of Augustine centred on love of God and the unknowability of God. She finds it speaks to both head and heart in the Network.
The last part of Duncan Park’s case against the Ten Hypotheses, arguing they would divide members and promote religious humanism. A sidebar lists websites of SoF Australia, the Westar Institute and the Snowstar Institute.
Patti Whaley compares human rights and post-realist religion as faiths without metaphysical foundations, and proposes religious humanists engage with human rights on religious freedom and on responsibilities and community.
Patti Whaley of Amnesty International compares human rights and post-realist religion, both lacking metaphysical foundations, and proposes that religious humanists engage on foundations, religious freedom, and responsibility and community.
Patti Whaley reviews Stephen Batchelor’s Buddhism without Beliefs and Thich Nhat Hanh’s Going Home. Both stress practice over belief. She asks how Sea of Faith could turn non-realism from an idea into a practice.
Patti Whaley’s emails from a Buddhist retreat in France consider meditation, ritual and play as spiritual practice for non-realists, drawing on Shambhala teaching, oryoki, Tonglen and readings by Norris and Chodron.
Patti Whaley reviews James Rowe Adams’s reference book on over 150 Biblical words, which shows the Bible itself uses metaphor. She finds it useful for clergy and lay readers, though some entries are not strictly...
Patti Whaley opens the 1998 conference with twenty questions on spirituality, asking whether it implies realism, what prayer and ritual are for without God, and whether SoF will talk about religion or be religious.
Patti Whaley’s introduction to the 1998 conference: why spirituality makes some members uncomfortable, and questions on whether spirituality requires realism, a soul or a supernatural being, and what ‘being religious’ means for the Network.
