
Natural Religion: A None’s Journey of Religious Discovery (Wipf and Stock, 2025) is a personal and philosophical exploration of what religion can mean without supernatural beliefs. Baird grew up without any formal religion and would today be described as a “none” (someone without religious affiliation). His grandfather, Earl Clement Davis (1876-1953) was a Unitarian minister. Baird, who was born after his grandfather’s death and never knew him, inherited a trunk full of his writings. Through these writings Baird found a version of religion rooted in human experience, ethics, and scientific understanding rather than divine revelation or any other supernatural source.