LIBRARY OF ARTICLES
ALREADY SELECTED BY THE SUBSCRIBERS
OF HEART, MIND, & SPIRIT

    This library is organized into six subject areas:
SPSpirituality 
RG
Religion
LSLove, Sex, & Relationships
PGPersonal Growth & Life-Choices
MDMedical 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.



SPSpirituality 

    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




RGReligion

    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




LSLove, 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



PGPersonal 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

Pursuing Intrinsic Values:
Am I Spending this Hour Well?
  




MDMedical Ethics & Death

    Feature articles in this area should be especially interesting to
medical students, but they will be focused
in ways that make them intelligible to all interested readers.

When Is a Person?
Pre-Persons & Former Persons

A New Way to Secure the Right-to-Die:
Laws against Causing Premature Death


Voluntary Execution Followed by Organ Donation




PSPeace & Social Justice

    Many UU students have been involved in the peace movements of the past.
The US involvement in Iraq beginning in 2003.
started another anti-war movement.
How can be bring peace on Earth?
UUs are also deeply committed to every form of social justice.
How do we make our collective lives better?

Replacing the Electoral College
with One Presidential Vote for  Each Congressional District

Sex-Balanced Senate

World Without War

HOW A WORLD PEACE FORCE
WOULD HANDLE SITUATIONS LIKE IRAQ

BETTER THAN THE UNITED STATES AS POLICEMAN


EXIT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ:
ARABIC-SPEAKING PEACE-KEEPERS


Lessons from Iraq



MISCMiscellaneous
 

    Chosen articles that do not fit anywhere else.

Media Science, Advocacy Science, & Real Science

National Identity File: Our National Facebook

Born in the USA: The Easy Way to Become a U.S. Citizen

Expanding the DREAM Act: New Pathways to Citizenship

Registration without Deportation:
Bringing Millions of Foreign Nationals Out of the Shadows


Universal Gun-Registration:
Register All Gun-Owners and their Guns







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