LIBRARY
OF ARTICLES
ALREADY SELECTED BY THE SUBSCRIBERS
OF HEART, MIND,
& SPIRIT
This
library is organized into six subject areas:
SP—Spirituality
RG—Religion
LS—Love,
Sex, & Relationships
PG—Personal
Growth & Life-Choices
MD—Medical
Ethics & Death
PS—Peace & Social Justice
Each title is linked
to the whole article (often updated).
These articles are
also presented in historical order
in another file.
SP—Spirituality
UUs are
always interested
in new forms of spirituality.
In contrast to Religion (the next section),
spirituality explores the inward life of individual human persons.
This category became so popular
that it had be be separated from Religion,
which is more concerned with religious beliefs, traditions, practices,
& organization.
Spirituality
for Humanists:
Six Capacities
of Our Human Spirits
Loneliness
of Spirit:
Deeper than
the Reach of Love
Being
Depressed in Spirit:
Deeper than
Psychological Depression
Existential
Guilt:
Deeper than
the Pangs of Conscience
WHAT IS
SPIRITUALITY?
Beyond the
Life of the Body, the 'Heart', & the Mind
WHAT IS
SPIRITUALITY?
Ways
to Expand Our Spirits
WHAT IS
SPIRITUALITY?
Freedom:
Resisting Enculturation
and Choosing for Ourselves
WHAT
IS
SPIRITUALITY?
Love:
The
I-Thou Encounter,
Discovering other Persons of Spirit
Introducing
Existential Spirituality
Passionate
Inwardness:
Surrendering Self
RG—Religion
Unitarian Universalism is a religious movement
even tho in some ways it does not look like a religion.
For example, most UUs do not believe in any of the traditional Gods.
We are a creed-free collection of thinkers.
And this category contains some of our thoughts about religious matters
—the traditions, beliefs, &
pactices of religious organizations.
Buddhism
and Unitarian-Universalism:
Two
Traditions Learning From Each Other
Why
I Am A
Unitarian Universalist
THE
NEXT ONE
THOUSAND YEARS OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS:
The Future of Unitarian Universalism
WHICH
GODS DO
NOT EXIST?
No Gods
Created the Universe
WHICH
GODS DO
NOT EXIST?
No Gods Wrote Holy Books
WHICH
GODS DO
NOT EXIST?
No Gods
Are
Watching Our Behavor
WHICH GODS
DO
NOT EXIST?
No Gods Can Save Us from Death
IF I WERE GOD:
I Would Keep Up with Modern Science
LS—Love,
Sex, & Relationships
UUs on
campus are always
interested in new perspectives
on love, sex, & personal relationships,
especially when any new thoughts
might be helpful in their own relationships.
Gender and marriage would be two possible
sub-divisions of this area.
Romantic
Love is a Hoax !
Emotional
Programming to 'Fall in Love'
Sources
of
Sexual Fantasies
ROMANTIC
JEALOUSY:
Cause and
Prevention
Separating
Lust and Love
Four
Ways to
Achieve Same-Sex Marriage
Loving
in
Freedom
PG—Personal
Growth & Life-Choices
College
education as such
is supposed to be a process of personal
growth.
But beyond the normal processes of higher
education,
there might be some other issues faced
especially by college students
that can be discussed electronically.
Becoming
More Authentic:
The Positive
Side of Existentialism
Looking
for the Meaning of Life
Experience
of
a disabled body with an active mind