{"id":1755,"date":"2026-02-23T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/?page_id=1755"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:32:18","slug":"natural-religion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/natural-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1.png 570w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2026\/02\/NaturalReligionCover-1-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Natural Religion: A None\u2019s Journey of Religious Discovery\u00a0<\/em>(Wipf and Stock, 2025)\u00a0is a personal and philosophical exploration of what religion can mean\u00a0<em>without<\/em>\u00a0supernatural beliefs. Baird grew up without any formal religion and would today be described as a \u201cnone\u201d (someone without religious affiliation). His grandfather, Earl Clement Davis (1876-1953) was a Unitarian minister. Baird, who was born after his grandfather\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural Religion: A None\u2019s Journey of Religious Discovery\u00a0(Wipf and Stock, 2025)\u00a0is a personal and philosophical exploration of what religion can mean\u00a0without\u00a0supernatural beliefs. Baird grew up without any formal religion and would today be described as a \u201cnone\u201d (someone without religious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/natural-religion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":54,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1755","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}