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A prophetic plea from 1936 for a ‘cosmic religion’ [kosmické náboženství] by Norbert Fabián Čapek

Celebrating Christmas Day without a founder: Jesus, Śākyamuni Buddha and the Great Life

Contemplating the Enlightenment of Śākyamuni [1960] by Imaoka Shin’ichirō (1881-1988)

Will ready-made religions ever really fit us properly?

“What is Free Religion?” (1963) by Imaoka Shin’ichirō (1881-1988)

The great confession of No God—A portrait of Jesus as an atheist by Haya Akegarasu (1877-1954)

The Relation of Unitarianism to Buddhism (1894) by Nakanishi Gyurō (aka Nakanishi Ushirō)

A new-materialist meditation woven around four poems by Lucretius, A. R. Ammons, Joseph Blanco White, and Mary Oliver—‘It is only enough to touch the inner light of each surrounding thing and hope it will itself be stirred to radiance’