"Celebrating Evolution"
by Connie Barlow & Michael Dowd
In this lively, richly illustrated, and science-grounded DVD you will find this husband-and-wife team of evolutionary evangelists celebrating 14 billion years of cosmic, earth, life, and cultural evolution. Learn from Connie Barlow, a popular science writer and superb teacher, how the chemical elements within us are the gifts of stars that lived and died before our sun was born. Marvel in the comings and goings in North America of familiar and extraordinary mammals for the 65 million years since the dinosaurs vanished from the landscape. Take in the poignant message of how death is natural and generative at all scales of reality and how and when the breakthrough understandings came about. Explore playful evolutionary parables with Rev. Michael Dowd, "America's evolutionary evangelist," and be moved by his two most popular sermons for liberal religious audiences.
Filmed at various venues including: Meadville-Lombard Winter Institute, EarthSpirit Rising Conference, Montessori Teachers Conference, What Is Enlightenment?, and several Unitarian Universalist churches.
"Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd are gifted troubadours who celebrate the new evolutionary epic. As they travel endless freeway miles and speak to the full spectrum of humanity, their passionate presentations are igniting a new and exciting synthesis of science and faith." "The North American Ritual that Connie and Michael shared was a most powerful kinesthetic experience. Through words, visuals, and enactment, we were able to take in 70 million years of history. Through a playful and celebratory tone, I began to feel shifts of time within me. I was deeply moved." — P.L. Andrews, Interfaith Minister, MinGei Center for Creation Spirituality, Madison WI
4 hours of DVD (2 disks)
— Brian Swimme, Professor of Cosmology, California Institute of Integral Studies
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LESSONS in science & meaning: The Story of the Changing Story 3 Photos / 3 Generations Celebrants of the Story The Universe Is Story Just Like the Lion King A New Periodic Table Scorpius to Supernovas Birthday Stars
RITUAL: Cosmic Communion
SERMON: | LESSONS in science & meaning: Coming Home to North America Our Legacy of Extinction Deep-Time Activism Great Story Beads Evolutionary Parables "The Lucky Little Seaweed" Death Through Deep-Time Eyes
SONG: Death Has Lifted Us
LITANY: The Gifts of Death
SERMON: Epic of Evolution —
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You can download free educational materials from our website on several of the topics presented in the DVDs: ♦ Death through Deep-Time Eyes ♦ We Are Made of Stardust! ♦ Coming Home to North America ♦ Great Story Beads ♦ Evolutionary Parables
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