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Democracy needs …?

October 31, 2026

Democracy needs our rage and our courage. The impending midterm elections are a chance for Americans to take their country back. To quote our hideous president, "If you don't fight like hell, you won't have a country anymore." Only the oblivious and indifferent fail to see this historic challenge. What does it take to alert and awaken those who barely pay attention, who think this is just another round of…

Oh, No!

October 1, 2026

Oh, no! Our position is precarious. We go Vulnerable to various Scoundrels, utterly nefarious. We gotta question why. So goes the opening of my song, pertinent when I started it in 2017, and even more true today. We're living in…

Our Founder and Our Flounder

June 29, 2026

"These are the times that try men's souls," Paine wrote then, and it's true again. Thomas Paine probably won't be highlighted in the ceremonies around the 250th, but he should be. As we try to celebrate the 250th anniversary of…

Hoax?

June 11, 2026

Rebuttal to the letter in Ashland, Oregon's Sneak Preview: Is Carbon the Culprit? (Please see the original letter I am rebutting and Dr. Alan Journet's reply to it, both pasted in below. The editor of the Sneak Preview declined to…

Dads

May 31, 2026

Dad and Sons

What’s the Good of Democracy?

March 31, 2026

Our precious, beloved democratic republic is an annoying chore. I praise and treasure it, and I'm sick of it. I believe in the goods that we're made of, not the fallen goods the subtle deceiver dangles before our eyes. The…

Abundance Avoided

February 28, 2026

Two liberal pundits, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, raise liberals' ire by critiquing liberalism itself in their popular book, Abundance. They complain we're blundering into scarcity when we could be choosing abundance. While conservatives fought any governmental program they resented…

Good?

January 11, 2026

What is or isn't good? We all evaluate this. Keep in mind your own take on this as I share mine. I'll briefly share the basis for my take on what is good as a way of considering recent violations,…

Stand Up

September 15, 2025

“Stand up, Bradley,” my mother used to say to me. I slouched, my head hung forward. I was a “lazy breather,” inhaling through my mouth. At age 8, I felt timid, afraid. Finally, at age 80, I’m standing up. When…

The latest from Healthy People & Planet

Hoax?

Rebuttal to the letter in Ashland, Oregon's Sneak Preview: Is Carbon the Culprit? (Please see the original letter I am rebutting and Dr. Alan Journet's reply to it, both pasted…

Think and Think and Think

“Think, and think, and think,” Art advised. Art Brayfield, former head of the American Psychological Association, learned but reclusive, liked my thoughtful sermons and occasional visits. His advice seems truer…

The latest from Democratic Relations

Our Founder and Our Flounder

"These are the times that try men's souls," Paine wrote then, and it's true again. Thomas Paine probably won't be highlighted in the ceremonies around the 250th, but he should…

What’s the Good of Democracy?

Our precious, beloved democratic republic is an annoying chore. I praise and treasure it, and I'm sick of it. I believe in the goods that we're made of, not the…

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The dream of an Earthly Religion…

Earthly: our precious natural earth which allows us our bodies, lives, cultures and future.

Religion: from the old root words religare and religio, meaning “to bind back to the root and be whole again.” This does not assume we need to believe in God or the Bible. Rather, we should be well-related with our own bodies, each other, natural life, and natural existence as it actually is. If there is connection with divinity or God, it is in and through our bodies and beings that we relate primarily, not via scriptures, traditions, rituals, or supposed religious authorities. In short, by religion we mean “relating well with reality.”

The emphasis here is on the earthly. It is not an afterlife or an instead-of-life that interests us. Living well here on earth together does.

While we take our religious perspective and work seriously, we don’t want it to be stuffy. Too often, religions can be alien to the human condition rather than affirming of it. They can be demeaning and demoralizing, dull and bossy, ponderously pretentious. We lean more towards the fun and sexy, natural and lively, human and humane, thoughtful and pertinent.

Reality: the obvious and inescapable stuff of physical existence. We intend to enjoy and tend our lives in these bodies, for our time, in our cultures, for our singular and interrelated ecosystem. There may be more, but there is AT LEAST THIS of which we are born, in which we live, and into which we will die.

God or no-God is not the point; Earth is. Both believers and non-believers are welcome here, for we all share a common source, opportunity, and responsibility: life as it is and could be. This ranges from simply improving one’s own life to your helping save and restore Eden’s, not just to “sustain” it, but veering it to thrive as never before. If you value your life, each other’s, and Earth’s – welcome!

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