Comedian Charlie Varon “saves” his audience from worldly despair. Fourteen minutes of entertainment and scientific education culminates in a profound identity shift: we know that we hail from a long and persistent ancestry. And we owe it to the past to secure a viable future.
Ecology is the new theology and women in climate science rock! “Climate Wake-Up” was the title of Connie’s and my four-church speaking tour in Kentucky in early May. The star of our illustrated talks turned out to be the northern jet stream — and how the 2012 record melt of Arctic sea ice has already…
Science writer Connie Barlow provides insightful resources for ritually celebrating Big History.
In 2012, the dangers of human-caused climate disturbance became undeniable, making this the fundamental moral issue of our time.
We regard Terrence Deacon’s “Incomplete Nature” as the most important book written on the science and philosophy of “emergence.”
Photos and video from the inaugural conference of the International Big History Association.
As it has 11 times since 1982, Gallup has polled Americans on the question of human origins. Once again, the biased wording of the three belief statements on the menu of choices forces respondents into camps that do not reflect the views of many Americans—myself included.
“Big History” has entered the big leagues—both in academia and in entertainment. This new, cross-disciplinary field that embraces cosmic, geological, and biological history (as well as human history) offers an inspiring way forward through the thorny and tangled bank of the science-and-religion debate.
How to create your own Great Story Bead Project for classroom use.
We have only begun to discuss this idea with religious education and secular school teachers, but all have been excited by the prospect of turning this into student projects—for helping children learn and experience history, science, and religion.