
Best 2007-2008 Blog Posts & Interviews
One of the delightful challenges that Connie and I face in our Great Story-telling ministry is trying to speak meaningfully to a wide variety of religious and non-religous groups. What follows are what I and others consider to be my best blog posts written during the past year and a half (since I began blogging), and the best interviews with me or us.
FOR THE RELIGIOUS
In our first seven years of teaching and preaching evolution together, we have been invited to present sermons, seminars, evening programs, or multiday workshops in more than 600 churches, convents, monasteries, and spiritual centers across the continent, including liberal and conservative Roman Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Unitarian Universalist, Unity, Religious Science, Quaker, Mennonite, Jewish, and Buddhist groups. Here are 2007-2008 posts of mine that the devoutly religious, as well as the nominally religious, tend to find inspiring, provocative, or both:
- Responses from Religious Leaders
- Best Evolution Resources
- Big History: The Teaching Company
- Even Rocks Evolve!
- Evolution as Meaningful, Inspiring Fact
- The Unnaturalist Fallacy
- Teach Both Sides of What Controversy?
- Waking Up to the Evolutionary Message of Our Times - guest post by Tom Atlee
- Lizard Legacy Bites 3 More Alphas
- Why I thank God for Charles Darwin
- Intelligent Design
- Evolutionary Morality and Ethics
- Evolution Theology: Religion 2.0
- Thank God for the New Atheists and Young Earth Creationists
- Evolutionary Christianity
- The Great Blasphemy
- Beyond Evidence: Responding to Creationists
- Science Leaders Praise Thank God for Evolution
INTERVIEWS
- CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight TV
- Issues of Faith TV
- Live@9:00 TV Show
- Interfaith Radio
- New Dimensions Radio (both me and Connie)
- CBC Tapestry
- Barbara Marx Hubbard interviewing me
- The Leading Edge with Mindy Audlin, on Unity.FM
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FOR THE NON-RELIGIOUS AND ANTI-RELIGIOUS
In addition to speaking in numerous and widely diverse kinds of churches and other religious settings over the last seven years, from very liberal groups to very conservative ones, Connie and I have also presented audience-appropriate versions of our science-based 'gospel of evolution' message in more than a hundred secular settings, including colleges, high schools, grade schools, public libraries, environmental groups, intentional communities, food co-ops, nature centers, and even an occasional zoo. What follows are past posts that non-religious, science-oriented folk (humanists, skeptics, freethinkers, and atheists) tend to appreciate:
- Science Leaders Praise TGFE
- Best Evolution Resources
- Big History: The Teaching Company
- Even Rocks Evolve!
- Evolution as Meaningful, Inspiring Fact
- A Place at the Podium - guest post by my wife, Connie
- Evolve or Perish
- ‘The Way It Is’ Fallacy
- An Atheist Challenge
- Responding to Mixed Reviews
- Lizard Legacy Bites 3 More Alphas
- Evolution Now
- Evolutionary Religious Studies
- Waking Up to the Evolutionary Message of Our Times - guest post by Tom Atlee
- Responses From Religous Leaders
INTERVIEWS
- Point of Inquiry, with D.J. Grothe: Part I: Thank God for Evolution
- Point of Inquiry, with D.J. Grothe: Part II: The Marriage of Science and Religion
- (I also participated in the online forum discussion following these interviews, accessible from either of the above links.)
- The Infidel Guy (radio / streaming video of Reggie interviewing me): Audio / Video