Last month Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow led a workshop in Ottawa on
Evolutionary Christianity. Dowd claims
that “science and religion can be mutually enriching forces” in our world. In one of his books, Dowd
quotes Barbara Marx Hubbard’s grateful reflection on the fourteen billion year
journey that has brought humanity to our present.
“Every entity that ever moved or swam or crawled or flew, every being
that reproduced itself, all the vast numbers of species now extinct and presently
living who have invented the amazing capability which we have inherited as our
eyes, our ears, our organs, our very atoms, molecules and cells – all of these
preceding us are represented in our emergence now.
We bow down in awe and gratitude for the past. Without all that came before us, none of us
would be awakening now.”
There’s a big picture reason to feel thankful this season.
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