Category: Article
Transcendence on the Headlands
Posted by Betsey Crawford | Feb 25, 2020 | Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Epic of Evolution, Evolutionaries, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Website |
One of the most transcendent moments of my life happened on the Marin headlands, within view of...
Read MoreThe Roman Catholic Tradition in Conversation with Thomas Berry’s Fourfold Wisdom
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 17, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
Abstract: Taking the threatening anthropogenic global environmental destruction—the anthropocene—as a starting point, this paper examines the Catholic tradition, which has remained relatively indifferent to this looming crisis, asking what might help it to change its focus from a decided human ecology to one that counts the human as an integral part of the larger natural […]
Earth Matters: Thomas Berry, the Pacifism of Religious Cosmology and the Need for Ecojustice
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 17, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Higher Education, Lifelong, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, Story of the Universe |
Abstract This article begins by unfolding Thomas Berry’s notion of Pax Gaia, using the...
Read MoreThe Story of Big History
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 5, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Currently, a group of historians is claiming that it might be history that provides the framework for a scientific and evolutionary account of everything. Big History, so named by its foremost practitioner, David Christian, seeks to unite the two cultures under the framework of an elegant story of the universe, a history, in the words […]
Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? (Article in Scientific American)
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 5, 2020 | Article, Other, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create) |
Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about “panpsychism” One of science’s most challenging...
Read MoreThe Child-Mother
Posted by Mike Bell | Feb 3, 2020 | Article, Blog, Current Issues, Epic of Evolution, Middle 6 - 8, Other, Resource I Created, Secondary 9 - 12 |
This is the story about the need for adults to help young people to deal with climate change. It...
Read MoreThe patient genius of transmutation
Posted by Betsey Crawford | Jan 25, 2020 | Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Story of the Universe, The New Story, Website |
“All is flux,” the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said 2500 years ago. “Nothing stays still.” He offered us a perfect description of transmutation, one of the great powers that cosmologist Brian Swimme ascribes to the universe. Every molecule, every cell, every feature of our earth has come to this point through transmutation. Now it’s asking us […]
Cosmology for a Beginner
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Jan 12, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe |
How are religious communities internalizing cosmology? This article by Loraine Villamarie begins...
Read MoreWhen Rivers Go to Court
Posted by Betsey Crawford | Dec 7, 2019 | Article, Blog, Ecology/Sustainability, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Government, Law, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Social Justice, The New Story |
Imagine a river taking her case to court. Arriving in her smooth, flowing robes, reflecting the blue of the sky, a shimmering train brushing the floor as she walks. She speaks in a deep, contralto voice. Her tone holds great authority. No one, listening to her, would doubt her word for an instant. It would […]
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