Spiritual Transformation and Non-Violent Action
An interpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent movements as ventures for reforming society that are rooted in altruism and spiritual transformation.
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The Great Story Bead Project—A Timeline of Evolution from the Big Bang to Human Consciousness
How to create your own Great Story Bead Project for classroom use.
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Useless Arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths
A review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007. My story begins with the intriguing title of a new book — Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (Pilkey 2007). The authors are a father and daughter team. The…
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Nationalism, Terrorism, and Religion: A Bio-Historical Approach
Creating a best-case scenario for Sri Lanka.
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Entangled Narratives
We now have a loom on which to weave the many pieces of truth we discover. That loom is the history of our species over the last million plus years, the evolution of our planet over the last 4 billion years, and the evolution of the universe over some 13 billion years.
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Teaching the History of Nature
Without the history of nature, we cannot truly appreciate or understand the present and quite extraordinary moment in the natural history of our planet and the cultural evolution of our species.
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Sleepless in Tehran
Through Metanexus Institute, I had helped to organize a delegation of Western scholars to participate in this International Congress on Religion and Science. This was the first conference of its kind to be held in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Education and Its Discontents
A revew of James K. A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009). There is a growing sense that education, particularly higher education, is in crisis, and books diagnosing the nature of the crisis and offering prescriptions and remedies have become something of a cottage industry. Recent…
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Cosmic Society
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
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This Cosmically Pivotal Moment
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.