To love unconditionally is to love without regard for oneself, to invest oneself in goals and outcomes that have no bearing on one's own interests. Those who live for themselves alone have nothing much to live for. Genuinely to love another person is to take their interests to heart in ways that involve self-sacrifice. Genuinely to love peace and justice is to take them to heart in ways that relativize the self. My kind of religious naturalism—like all religious traditions at their best—seeks ways to inspire this self-transcending love.

- Loyal Rue