LIBRARY OF ARTICLES
  PUBLISHED BY
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

Sinking into the River of Existential Despair

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?
Creativity:
Making Something Genuinely New

WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
Love:
The I-Thou Encounter,
Discovering other Persons of Spirit

WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
Self-Transcendence, Self-Criticism, & Altruism

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.

Loving without Expectations:
Non-Comprehensive Relationships

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

Pursuing Intrinsic Values:
Am I Spending this Hour Well?  



MD—Medical 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.

Losing the Marks of Personhood:
Discussing Degrees of Mental Decline

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

Will this Death be an "Irrational Suicide" or a "Voluntary Death"?

God Will Decide When Life Will End:
We Should Not 'Play God'

Voluntary Execution Followed by Organ Donation

Do I Lose the Right-to-Die when I Lose Consciousness?

Medical Futility Monitor:
Avoiding the Million-Dollar Death

Consumer-Control of Health-Care Costs:
Eliminating Unnecessary Medical Procedures


PS—Peace & Social Justice

    Many UU students have been involved in the peace movements of the past.
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? 

Automatic Voter Registration

Revive the Electoral College:
One Presidential Elector for  Each Congressional District

Sex-Balanced Senate

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

World Without War

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm the Warring Factions of Iraq

EXIT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ:
ARABIC-SPEAKING PEACE-KEEPERS

 Lessons from Iraq

Disarming ISIS:
Capturing or Killing All Jihadis

Holy War Against Terrorism

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm all Fighters in Syria


MISC—Miscellaneous
 
    Chosen articles that do not fit anywhere else.

Media Science, Advocacy Science, & Real Science

Orderly Immigration into the United States

National Identity File: Directory USA

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

Children of Foreign Nationals: 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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