The works

Six books. One Atlas. A widening argument.

Sacred Ideas in Our Material Universe is a six-book series. Atlas of the Sacred is the seventh principal title: a companion and reference work.

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Book One

Why You Don’t Believe in God

A Rational Journey Through Humanity’s Biggest Question

The opening inquiry: what happens to belief in God when inherited certainty becomes difficult to sustain?

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Book Two

Religion After Certainty

Why Humans Still Reach for the Sacred

Why religion persists, what it has carried, and what human beings may still be reaching for after certainty.

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Book Three

Why I Am Not a Muslim

A Comparative Examination of Islam, Authority, and Modern Values

A comparative examination of Islam, authority, interpretation and modern pluralism.

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Book Four

Incandescence

Panentheism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and the Living Universe

The central constructive proposal: nature inward through conscious life and the responsibility that may follow.

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Book Five

Christianity’s Living Fire

Meaning, Freedom, Community, and the Cross After Certainty

What Christianity may still carry when certainty, authority and supernatural guarantees are no longer assumed.

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Book Six

The Sacred Week

Living Religiously in a Material World

Fifty-two weekly practices for meaning, reflection, wonder, community and joy in a material world.

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Atlas · companion

Atlas of the Sacred

Humanity’s Maps of Reality, Meaning, and Transformation

A comparative reference work mapping humanity’s frameworks of reality, meaning and transformation.

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The books make an argument. The Atlas gives the reader a wider map.

The larger Sacred Ideas platform develops the ideas beyond the books and connects them to essays, media, practices and future work.