Category: Story of the Universe
Revelation of the Cosmos (Sermon)
Posted by Paula Guarnaccia | Oct 13, 2014 | Lifelong, Other, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
Sermon given at Middlebury Congregational Church in Middlebury, Vermont on August 10, 2014.
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 29, 2014 | Adult Education, Book, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, New Story (Universe Story, Journey of the Universe), Posts & Resources, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
Following the most recent scientific discoveries about the birth of the universe, this text shows how these new insights replace outmoded ways of seeing the world, bridging the chasm between science and spirituality, the physical realm and the soul. This book will help readers to grasp the larger significance of the human enterprise in this […]
The Universe is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 29, 2014 | Adult Education, Book, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Story (Universe Story, Journey of the Universe), Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
Communicating his ideas in the form of a classical dialogue between a youth and a wise elder, cosmologist Brian Swimme crafts a fascinating exploration into the creativity suffusing the universe. His explication of the fundamental powers of the cosmos is mystical and ecstatic and points directly to the need to activate one’s own creative powers.
The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfolding Cosmos
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 29, 2014 | Adult Education, Agriculture, Art, Book, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Higher Education, Law, Lifelong, New Cosmology, New Story (Universe Story, Journey of the Universe), Other, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
From the big bang to the present and into the next millenium, The Universe Story unites science and the humanities in a dramatic exploration of the unfolding of the universe, humanity’s evolving place in the cosmos, and the boundless possibilities for our future.
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality and Religion in the Twenty First Century
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 29, 2014 | Adult Education, Book, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Story (Universe Story, Journey of the Universe), Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental […]
The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 29, 2014 | Adult Education, Book, Ecology/Sustainability, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Story (Universe Story, Journey of the Universe), Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work — the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever […]
The Dream of the Earth
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 29, 2014 | Adult Education, Book, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Story (Universe Story, Journey of the Universe), Posts & Resources, Story of the Universe, The New Story |
This first volume in a new series, the Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library, explores human-earth relations and seeks a new, non-anthropocentric approach to the natural world. According to cultural historian Berry, our immediate danger is not nuclear war but industrial plundering; our entire society, he argues, is trapped in a closed cycle of […]
Prayer for Feast of St. Francis
Posted by Terri MacKenzie | Sep 21, 2014 | Ecology/Sustainability, Lifelong, Posts & Resources, Religion/Spirituality, Ritual, Story of the Universe, Website |
The feast of St. Francis is celebrated by Christians on October 4th. Seen by some as merely the...
Read MoreThe Earth Charter (Text)
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Sep 21, 2014 | Adult Education, Current Issues, Document, Higher Education, Lifelong, New Cosmology, Posts & Resources, Secondary 9 - 12, Story of the Universe |
[See link to the text of the Earth Charter below.] What is the Earth Charter? The Earth Charter is...
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