This blog uses Russian nesting dolls to illustrate how the many important date in September and into October fit within the Season of Care for Creation, which fits within an on-going series of larger contexts ultimately within the Universe Story. September is especially rich with days important to those who care about all creation.
New Online Classes Open to the Public “Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times” In the fall...
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Thomas Berry was a cultural historian, a monk and a Roman Catholic Priest. Though he was a member of the church he lived on the edge of the institution. His unique talents out on the edge enabled him to look back into the church’s history. He could see its limitations and how they would affect […]
My paper on this topic for the 2016 IBHA conference; comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome!
A celebration of the great beauty and deep wisdom of the unique, magical landscape of southeastern Utah. A place full of stone tablets holding both the vast breadth of our planet’s history, and the simplest of commandments.
This year, in lieu of a final cumulative assessment in Big History, nearly 100 teens participated in a Big History exhibition of their final projects, which were showcased on a walking tour of the eight thresholds of increasing complexity in the story of our universe, planet, and humanity. The teens invited family and other community […]
Orbis Books has started a new series: Catholicity in an Evolving Universe Series. This book by Ilia Delio demonstrates that catholicity is a conscious awareness of how everything–sun and stars, maple trees and muddy rivers, and all organisms from the single-celled to homo sapiens–forms one thing. It is a dynamic, spiritual quality that quite literally […]
This is my attempt, after receiving much needed guidance from Cynthia Stokes Brown, to bring together two very important educational approaches.
Now that I’m free to wander and find native plants and flowers wherever I go, I often remember the spirit of a place by the plants that I saw there. They tell me a complex story about the place they’re in. They bring back the scents, the bird song, the sighing of wind, the feel […]
Peter Drucker, the management guru, once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” He was referring to how new business strategies run headlong into long-established and powerful corporate cultures. The same may be said for those of us “new cosmologists” developing strategies for climate change. We run into a profit-haunted economic culture that gobbles up Earth’s […]
Our Vision is to ignite our sense of connectedness with Earth and nurture a spirituality of Earth care through learning circles.
Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
Gladwyne Montessori is an independent Montessori school on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
The result is transformative.
