Resources - Moving On, Spirituality
Religious Tolerance and Liberal Christianity
Belief Net - “We are a multi-faith e-community designed to help you meet your own religious and spiritual needs — in an interesting, captivating and engaging way.”
Sea of Faith Network UK - “The Network explores the implications of accepting religion as a human creation; promotes this view of religion, and affirms the continuing validity of religious thought and practice as celebrations of spiritual and social values. The Network has no creed. It welcomes people from all faith and non-faith traditions.”
ReligiousTolerance.org - “To promote religious tolerance and freedom. To describe religious faiths in all their diversity. To describe controversial topics from all points of view.”
A Christian Derivation of Pantheism by Donald E. Fader - “What does it mean to say God is love? How are we to conceive this in a manner appropriate to our cultural situation?”
Books about Religious Tolerance and Liberal Christianity
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile by John Shelby Spong - “An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today’s thinking Christian. In this compelling and heartfelt book, he sounds a rousing call for a Christianity based on critical thought rather than blind faith, on love rather than judgment, and that focuses on life more than religion.”
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism : A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong - “Bishop Spong proposes a pastoral response based on scripture and history to the changing realities of the modern world. He calls for a moral vision to empower the church with inclusive teaching about equal, loving, nonexploitative relationships.”
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by Marcus J. Borg - “Borg shows us how to encounter the Bible in a fresh way that rejects the limits of simple literalism and opens up rich possibilities for our lives.”
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time : The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg - “Drawing on his own journey from a naive, unquestioning belief in Christ through collegiate skepticism to a mature and contemporary Christian faith, Borg illustrates how an understanding of the historical Jesus can actually lead to a more authentic Christian life–one not rooted in creeds or dogma, but in a life of spiritual challenge, compassion, and community.”
Atheism and Agnosticism
American Atheists - “We defend the civil rights of Atheists, and call for the total, absolute separation of church and state.”
Positive Atheism - “Discussing the history, ethics, and philosophy of atheism; Promotes liberty, responsibility, and peace of mind”
Secular Web by the Internet Infidels - “A drop of reason in a pool of confusion”
Rational Spirituality - “. . . [C]overs a relatively unexplored discipline, spirituality as seen from a rational, atheistic, scientific viewpoint.”
Freedom from Religion Foundation - “The Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., is an educational group working for the separation of state and church. Its purposes, as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.”
Whatever Floats Your Boat Forum - “This forum is listed under Atheism. It is clearly a place for like-minded thinkers ( Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, etc).”
Infidel Guy :: Rational radio and Debate - “Radio that rocks your rational mind!”
Equal Time for Freethought - Streaming radio show to “explore and represent an evidence-based worldview, thereby providing a forum for social change based on secular humanism, scientific naturalism, and healthy skepticism.”
Books about Atheism and Agnosticism
The “God” Part of the Brain by Matthew Alper - “From the dawn of our species, every culture has maintained a belief in some form of a spiritual reality. Wouldn’t this imply that human spirituality must represent an inherent characteristic of our species, that is, a genetically inherited trait?”