VIDEOS
William Grassie, Big History: The New Narrative, 8:37
David Christian, The What and Why of Big History, 21:53.
Bob Bain, Big Questions about Big History in US schools, 42:09.
Photos and video from the inaugural conference of the International Big History Association.
We argue about truth, beauty, and goodness based on competing religious, nationalistic, ethnic, and ideological stories. What intellectual tools can help to mediate between these competing narratives?
Environmentalists might applaud a planet at the turn of the next century with 2 billion fewer people than today. The economic consequences, however, could be catastrophic.
Humans now consume some 18 trillion watts of energy in a variety of forms. Every aspect of our contemporary lives depends on this tremendous flow of energy.
We need to humbly put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of education, including and especially religious education.
“We are the music makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams…” “Each age is a dream that is dying,Or one that is coming to birth.” Arthur O’Shaughnessy, in his great Ode, captured something uncannily like our moment: history does not move only through institutions, arguments, and systems. It also moves through imagination, desire, vision, and world-making….