Best 2009 Blog Posts and 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 in 2009, and the best interviews with me or us. (To see a similar list for posts written in 2007-2008, click HERE.)

FOR THE RELIGIOUS

In our first 8 years of teaching and preaching evolution together, we have been invited to present sermons, seminars, evening programs, or multiday workshops in more than 700 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 2009 posts of mine that the devoutly religious, as well as the nominally religious, tend to find inspiring, provocative, or both:

Human-Bacteria Symbosis: Are We Organisms or Living Ecosystems?
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
Good and Bad Reasons for Believing, by Richard Dawkins
Sacred Science Music Videos: "The Symphony of Science"
Fixing the Gallup Poll on Human Origins

The Big Integrity Movement

The Greatest Show on Earth

Reality: God's Secular Name

Sex Scandals and Instincts: It's Your Biology, Stupid!

Thomas Berry (1916-2009)

Sacred Deep-Time Eyes, Both Directions

Old-Time Religion Trivializes God, Guidance, & Good News

My Presentation at the United Nations

The Gospel of Big Integrity

New Preface: Plume Paperback TGFE

The 7 Deadly Sins of Old-Time Religion

"God" as a Personification of Undeniable Reality

Are God and Satan Real?

The Future of Religion: Evolutionary Trends

From Mystery to Wonder: Science vs. God of the Gaps

The Debate Over God's Existence

Tom Atlee: A Brand New Thing Under the Sun

Christian Naturalism

Creatheism: Evolutionary Emergence Ends the Theism-Atheism Debate

God is NOT a Supernatural Terrorist

Metaphorical gods vs. Reality/God: Part 1 and Part 2

Vision: Global Integrity wiki

Global Integrity: An Invitation to Religious Leaders

How and Why I'm a Pentecostal Evangelical

President Obama's Testosterone Levels

Traditional Religion's God Problem

Religion and Self-control

Humanity's Rite of Passage

Grand Canyon Revies, Part 1: Christians and Part 2

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:

Human-Bacteria Symbosis: Are We Organisms or Living Ecosystems?
Earth or 'the earth': What's in a Name?
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
Good and Bad Reasons for Believing, by Richard Dawkins
New Music Video Celebrates Science—and tops the charts

Fixing the Gallup Poll on Human Origins

The Big Integrity Movement

The Greatest Show on Earth Humanity's Rite of Passage

6th Nobel Laureate Endorsement: Charles Townes

Sex Scandals and Instincts: It's Your Biology, Stupid!

David Sloan Wilson: Evolutionary Psychology in the Media

Skeptic Society Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech

My Presentation at the United Nations

The Gospel of Big Integrity

New Preface: Plume Paperback TGFE

The Future of Religion: Evolutionary Trends