[Dialogue] Dowd

[elliestock at aol.com]

We used Dowd's Evolutionary Christianity in one of our adult classes.? Also went to the Thank God for Evolution seminar when Michael and Connie were in St. Louis.? They started their on-the- road journey after the Earth Spirit Rising Conference in honor of Thomas Berry.? Some movement colleagues were present.? Brian Swimme was one of the speakers.? 

I believe you can download his latest book from his website.

Ellie Stock


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In a message dated 3/10/2008 6:00:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rcwmbw at yahoo.com writes:

Where do we find the "church"?(ala Niebuhr)?today?? It is?seems not to be, with some noteworthy?exceptions, the cigar boxes with steeples, and I am?"in a?church" to use Dick's words.? Randy

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Dear Randy (et al),



I was very excited by a lecture I attended last week at a local community college in Visalia, CA.? It was sponsored by the U.U. fellowship and was titled "Thank God for Evolution!"? It was an evangelically-styled telling of the Universe Story by Rev.Michael Dowd.? Check out www.TheGreatStory.org.? He quotes Bryan Swimme a lot, as well as Thomas Berry.? You can download his book of the same title ("Thank God ...") free.? I bought 4 DVD's, which he urged us to copy and distribute.? He uses lots of images from Hubble?photos.? His blog is at ThankGodForEvolution.com.? 

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>From another? DVD cover:? (www.EvolutionaryChristianity.org):

"A passionate and unabashedly all-embracing, ecological, deep-time honoring and prophetic/evangelistic celebration of the Christian tradition that honors Roman Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Anabaptist, Universalist and New Thought expressions."

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He and his wife, scientist Connie Barlow,?don't have a home.? They live on the road doing this work.??Several of us? from our local Presbyterian Church went, and we'll be?showing and discussing the DVD's to more of our congregation.

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I do think the "church" (ala Niebuhr) can be found in this kind of consciousness-raising work.? Much longer than history, much wider than the world.

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Mourning doesn't really become me, but it is going along, and involves so much more than wearing a certain color.? The whole world, to me,?keeps fluctuating between flat shadows and brilliant freshness.? The wildflowers are absolutely breathtaking around here.

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Blessings,

Jann? McGuire? 




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