Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Michael Dowdis an American Progressive Christian minister, author, and eco-theologian known as an advocate of Big History, religious naturalism, sustainability, climate activism, and the epic of evolution...
reality missing sacred
God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!
golf nation town
When I started this, it was municipal all the way. I had no hint that the Seneca Nation would be interested, but this is nothing like the town golf course. This will be a destination course.
purpose scheme
We allege the scheme was for the purpose of evading the statutes of limitations.
chance last society victims
This is the last chance for society and for the victims to have their day in court.
facts tongue native
Facts are God’s native tongue.
journey epic confusion
The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.
children mind teeth
No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?
humanity world way
Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.
religious atheist reality
Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God's voice, because they are! The word "God" used to be identified with reality - indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.
intelligent hands design
I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.
mean understanding creation
What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.
air self water
Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.