Please join us on Saturday, July 28, at 7:30 pm for a Pennsylvania debut performance of the “Emergent Universe Oratorio.” Composed by Sam Guarnaccia, the oratorio presents the story of the universe from its beginning to the future of humanity, in a series of alternating intensively scored recitatives with major lyrical choral sections. It will […]
‘Sacred Universe’ is a 44 page full color 12 x 12 soft-cover book, a compendium of previous Universe Story calendar themes by Peter Adair, 2012-2017. It is beautiful and moving. ‘Sacred Universe’ is an appreciation and contemplation of the vast unfurling miracle that is our universe. With particularly impressive photographic images and poetic, inspirational text, […]
Simulations reveal that up to half the material in our galaxy arrived from smaller galactic neighbours, as a result of powerful supernova explosions.
If we want to create a community climate change culture we need to develop a different way of relating to Earth. We can gain some insights from indigenous cultures—a sense that we are one with nature. But most of us live in a very different world, a world of modern science. This chronicle offers both […]
Astrophysicist Carl Sagan once said, “If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” He could have said the same of mud pies, though it wouldn’t have sounded as delicious. But, before apples, the universe needed to invent dirt. Without it, we would not be here. Although dirt […]
This is a lively conversation with DTJN members Jane Riddiford and Rod Sugden about Global Generation’s work in a major London construction area. Here, Global Generation uses the Universe Story, gardens, and nature-based activities to catalyze a community among school kids of many ethnicities and backgrounds, construction workers, office workers, and condo residents.
There is a crisis brewing in the cosmos, or perhaps in the community of cosmologists. The universe seems to be expanding too fast, some astronomers say. Recent measurements of the distances and velocities of faraway galaxies don’t agree with a hard-won “standard model” of the cosmos that has prevailed for the past two decades. The […]
This newsletter discusses the need for a new theory of evolution in evolutionary biology that incorporates biological relativity and the research featured at the Royal Society meeting, New Trends in Evolution: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives. Biological relativity is a concept that Oxford Professor of Systems Biology and President of the International Union of […]
This document, unknown to many even in the Montessori world, describes three levels: a) a pedagogical, or methodological level; b) a second level of honoring and defending the child, seeing the light that shines forth from the child and 3) focusing on the salvation of humanity . . . that through the child humanity can […]
September 14, 2016, 4:30 Connelly Center Cinema; Villanova University David Chuss, Department of Physics “How did the Universe begin?” is one of humanity’s oldest questions. Though the approach to this question has spanned many fields of study, the last century has provided the opportunity to apply the scientific method to this question with results that […]
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.
