Spirituality & Religion (2013–14)

For a few years I wrote and spoke a good deal about prayer, religion, and spirituality for nonbelievers — a practice the Washington Post piece below describes. The On Faith blog where some of it ran was sold to FaithStreet.com and later vanished; those links (and a few other casualties) point to archived copies.

  • How to Pray for Divine Guidance Without Religion — Archived copy — Local copy
  • Is God's Existence Beside the Point?. Sigfried Gold. The Washington Post, On Faith, 2013-10-08 — Archived copy
  • Can Liberal Judaism Be Saved from Liberalism?. Sigfried Gold. Tikkun Daily, 2013-11-04 — Archived copy — Blog article
  • 7 Reasons for Spiritual Progressives to Engage Humbly with Fundamentalists. Sigfried Gold. Tikkun Daily, 2013-11-12 — Archived copy — Blog article
  • Spiritual Travel Agency. Sigfried Gold. Tikkun Daily, 2013-11-20 — Archived copy — Blog article
  • Religion and Utopian Economics. Sigfried Gold. Tikkun Daily, 2013-12-04 — Archived copy — Blog article
  • A Real Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Sigfried Gold. Tikkun Daily, 2014-09-10 — Archived copy — Blog article
  • Tailored Beliefs. Sigfried Gold. tailoredbeliefs.com (site, archived) — Archived copy
  • Atheist Spirituality. Sigfried Gold. eSkeptic, 2014-09-10 — Archived copy
  • Coming Out Skeptical. Sigfried Gold. eSkeptic, 2014-06-25 — Archived copy
  • Testing a Naturalist's Faith. Sigfried Gold. The Spiritual Naturalist Society, 2013-07-24 — Blog article
  • Religious Freedom from the Inside Out. Sigfried Gold. The Spiritual Naturalist Society, 2013-08-12 — Blog article
  • Why God is Important. Sigfried Gold. The Spiritual Naturalist Society, 2013-09-23 — Blog article
  • Dispensing Wisdom. Sigfried Gold. The Spiritual Naturalist Society, 2014-05-22 — Blog article
  • Some nonbelievers still find solace in prayer. The Washington Post, 2013-06-24 — Archived copy
  • Addicted to Prayer. T.M. Luhrmann. The New York Times, Opinion, 2013-08-04 — Archived copy

In the Press

Newspaper coverage of my software work, from the web-development-firm era.

  • Flower Children in the Chamber of Commerce. The Octopus: Champaign-Urbana's Alternative Weekly, June 4, 1999 — Local copy
  • Finding a Cure for Technophobia. The News Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL), March 5, 2000 — Local copy
  • Creating Made Easy With a 'Collaborator'. Jason Chervokas, Tom Watson. The New York Times, CyberTimes (Digital Nation), 1998-01-16 — Archived copy

Talks & Older Pieces

  • Making Power Flow Downhill — PDF
  • Drash presented at Tifereth Israel (2014-11-01) — PDF