use the social practices of traditional religions, including communal gatherings and rituals, to foster a sense of community, and to serve as reinforcement of its participants' efforts to expand the scope of their understandings. Some other groups mainly communicate online. Some known examples of religious naturalists groupings and congregation leaders are: Religious Naturalist Association Spiritual Naturalist Society Unitarian Universalist Religious Naturalists Religious Naturalism Facebook Group Universal Pantheist Society founded 1975 – Pantheism is an intercepting concept with religious naturalism Congregation Beth Or, a Jewish congregation near Chicago led by Rabbi David Oler Congregation of Beth Adam in Loveland Ohio led by Rabbi Robert Barr Pastor Ian Lawton, minister at the Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, West Michigan and Center for Progressive Christianity Religious Naturalism is the focus of classes and conferences at some colleges and theology schools. Articles about religious naturalism have appeared frequently in journals, including Zygon, American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, and the International Journal for Philosophy and Religion. See also Animism Creation Spirituality Daoism Epic of evolution Epicureanism Fitra Liberal naturalism Liberal religion List of new religious movements Naturalistic pantheism Nontheistic religion Philosophical theism Postsecularism Process theology Religion Religious philosophy Religious naturalism Secular paganism Spiritual naturalism Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science References Further reading 2015 – Donald A. Crosby – More Than Discourse: Symbolic Expressions of Naturalistic Faith, State University of New York Press, 2015 – Nathan Martinez – Rise Like Lions: Language and The False Gods of Civilization, 2008 – Donald A. Crosby – The Thou of Nature: Religious Naturalism and Reverence for Sentient Life, State University of New York Press, 2011 – Loyal Rue – Nature Is Enough, State University of New York Press, 2010 – Michael Hogue – The Promise of Religious Naturalism, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Sept.16, 2010, 2009 – Michael Ruse & Joseph Travis – Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, Belknap Press, 2009, 2008 – Donald A. Crosby – Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil, State University of New York Press, 2008 – Michael Dowd – Thank God for Evolution:, Viking (June 2008), 2008 – Chet Raymo – When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist, Sorin Books, 2008 – Kenneth R. Miller – Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, Viking Adult, 2008, 2008 – Eugenie C. Scott – Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction,