Big History and Religion: The Ties that Bind
My paper on this topic for the 2016 IBHA conference; comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome!
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June 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Newsletter reviews Symbiogenetics, the 4th edition of Lynn Margulis’s magnum opus (Symbiosis...
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Bulletins of the International Big History Association
Origins, the bulletin of the International Big History Association, highlights the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members and friends have on Big History.
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Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness (Book)
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 […]
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Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to Journey of the Universe
From the introduction: Since the earliest expressions of culture, humans have sought to understand and efine our place in the universe. To this end, we have developed cosolgies, which are stories that invoke our common experience of reality. These stories describe where have come fro and where we are going. The religioius and philosophical traditions […]
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Deep Time Walk
The Deep Time Walk is a 4.6km walking audio history of life. This unfolding takes you from 4.6bn years ago to the present day, with each metre representing one million years. As you walk you begin to recognise the long geological processes and self-regulating patterns that have produced the conditions for the evolution of life. […]
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March 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Various news articles and links. A discussion of the context and background for Lynn...
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Our Chemical Eden
“To figure out the origin of life might take a conceptual shift towards seeing it as a pattern of molecular energy.” This article suggests a process for the chemical formation of life within deep-see geologic formations.
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2016 Sisters of Earth Conference
Zest for Life – Partnering with our Sacred Earth Community
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The Problems with Big History and Turning Science into Myth
A discussion of the richness of the new cosmology beyond Big History.
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