"Nietzsche as Spiritual Guide"
March 19, 2017

Reading various writings by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, including Dionysus verses the Crucified and The Greatest Weight, Dr. Riegel demonstrates Nietzsche's materialistic, affirmative, religious vision.

"Interspiritual Potpourri"
March 12, 2017

Referencing Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Sufism, Dr. Riegel walks us through the wisdom of the world's religious traditions, exploring "the Ground of Being," the nature of the self, ethics, and love as the path to God.

"Falling Leaves and Clinging Minds"
Oct. 16 2016

Drawing on his relationship with his ailing father, Dr. Riegel discusses the suffering that comes when the mind insists on permanence in a world that offers nothing but constant change.  He then suggests the antidote to such suffering.

"When Gulliver Woke Up"
Oct. 2, 2016

In this sermon Dr. Riegel uses the image of Gulliver, from Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels," to discuss what it means to "wake up" on a spiritual journey and further, how one reacts to the conditions in which one finds oneself upon waking up, i.e., what becomes of one's life situation, especially one's interpersonal relationships.

"Disenchantment and the Rediscovery of the Sacred"
Aug. 14, 2016

Dr. Riegel discusses the phenomenon of disenchantment starting with the Enlightenment, which shifted the locus of human meaning to the mind, then suggests that the rediscovery of the sacred takes place by a subjective immersion into nature, especially humans, i.e., one another.