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Episode 1: Ian Barbour - “God and Evolution”
Episode 2: Bruce Sanguin - “Evolutionary Christian Mysticism and Cosmological Midrash”
Episode 3:
Denis Lamoureux - “Beyond the Evolution vs. Creation Debate”
Episode 4:
Ross Hostetter - “Integral Christian Spirituality”
Episode 5:
Karl Giberson - “The Heart and Soul of the Evolution Controversy”
Episode 6:
John Cobb - “Process Christianity In the 21st Century”
John Cobb is a prominent United Methodist process theologian and long-time professor at Claremont School of Theology. He is the author of 35 books, including, Process Theology: An Exposition, and Christian Faith and Religious Diversity.
Episode 7:
Charles H. Townes - “The Convergence of Science and Religion”
Charles Townes was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1964 for his invention of the laser. He received the Templeton Prize in 2005 for contributions to the understanding of religion.
Episode 8:
Jim Burklo - “Open Christianity and Progressive Faith”
Jim Burklo is associate dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. A former United Church of Christ and Presbyterian pastor, he is the author of Open Christianity: Home by Another Road and Birdlike and Barnless: Meditations, Prayers, Poems, and Songs for Progressive Christians.
Episode 9:
Brian McLaren - “Naked Spirituality and A New Kind of Christianity”
Brian McLaren is a noted Emerging Church leader. Recognized in Time magazine as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals, he is the author of 16 books, including, A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and A New Kind of Christianity.
Episode 10:
John Shelby Spong - “Celebrating Post-Theistic Christian Faith”
John Shelby Spong is a retired Episcopal bishop and prophetic theologian whose books have sold more than a million copies, among them: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism and Why Christianity Must Change or Die.
Episode 11:
Ian Lawton - “An Inclusive Faith for the ’Spiritual But Not Religious’”
Ian Lawton is a gifted preacher ordained as an Anglican priest in Australia and now pastor of C3 Exchange, an inclusive spiritual community in Michigan. He and his wife Meg established Soulseeds.com to inspire and encourage people in all stages of life.
Episode 12:
Kenneth R. Miller - “Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul”
Ken Miller is a Brown University cell biologist and author of Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution and Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul. The latter chronicles his role as a lead witness in the 2005 ‘intelligent design’ trial in Dover, Pennsylvania.
Episode 13:
Michael Morwood - “Evolving Prayer and Ritual Celebrations”
Michael Morwood is a Progressive Christian leader with 40 years experience in retreat, education, parish, and youth ministries. He is the author of Tomorrow's Catholic, Praying a New Story, and Children Praying a New Story: A Resource for Parents, Grandparents, and Teachers.
Episode 14:
Tom Thresher - “Reverent Irreverence and Integral Faith”
Tom Thresher pastors a United Church of Christ congregation in Suquamish, Washington. A respected voice in Integral Christianity, he also teaches leadership at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He is the author of Reverent Irreverence: Integral Church for the 21st Century—From Cradle to Christ Consciousness.
Episode 15:
Richard Rohr - “Radical Grace and Evolutionary Spirituality”
Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest who founded the Center for Action and Contemplation. A contributing editor for Sojourners magazine and a contributor to Tikkun magazine, he is the author of many books and educational programs, including, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See and Why Be Catholic?
Episode 16:
John F. Haught - “Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life”
John Haught is a leading Catholic evolutionary theologian and senior fellow in the study of science and religion at Georgetown University. He is the author of a dozen books, including, Making Sense of Evolution and Christianity and Science: Toward a Theology of Nature. He was a key witness for the plaintiffs at the Dover ‘intelligent design’ trial.
Episode 17:
Mary Southard - “Deep-Time Art and the Language of the Heart”
Mary Southard is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph and a student of Thomas Berry. Her paintings, sculptures, and Earth Calendars communicate a sacred and deep-time relationship to Earth and Cosmos across religious divides.
Episode 18:
Matthew Fox - “Evolution and Creation Spirituality”
Matthew Fox is founder of the Creation Spirituality movement. Formerly a Catholic priest, now Episcopal, he was expelled from Catholicism in 1993 by then-Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI). He is the author of 28 books, including, Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, and A New Reformation.
Episode 19:
Sally Morgenthaler - “When the Inside is the New Outside”
Sally Morgenthaler is a prophetic voice within evangelical Christianity, calling the Church out of its inward focus to become a transforming, generative presence in the world. Bestselling author of Worship Evangelism, she has taught contemporary worship at Yale University, Fuller Theological Seminary, and other institutions.
Episode 20:
Gloria Schaab - “Dwelling in the Word: Divine Revelation in the Cosmos”
Gloria Schaab is a Catholic evolutionary theologian and assistant professor of systematic theology at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. Her scholarly work focuses on God as Trinity, evolutionary theology, feminist theology, and the writings of Arthur Peacocke and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
Episode 21:
William D. Phillips - “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science”
Bill Phillips was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. He is a United Methodist layperson and a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion.
Episode 22:
Owen Gingerich - “Evolutionary Creationism”
Owen Gingerich is professor emeritus of astronomy and the history of science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A former vice president of the American Philosophical Society and a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation, his books include God’s Universe and The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler.
Episode 23:
Ilia Delio - “The Emergent Christ and Evolutionary Catholicism”
Ilia Delio is a senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. Her research projects include science and religion, transhumanism, technology and evolution, ecology and education, and the theology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. She is the author of Christ in Evolution; Care for Creation; and the forthcoming, The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe.
Episode 24:
Diarmuid O’Murchu - “Meeting God in Our Evolutionary Story”
Diarmuid O’Murchu is a Catholic priest and social psychologist living in Dublin, Ireland. A leading evolutionary theologian, he is the author of a dozen books, including, Quantum Theology, Evolutionary Faith, and Ancestral Grace.
Episode 25:
Gail Worcelo - “Sisters of Earth and the Legacy of Thomas Berry”
Gail Worcelo is a Catholic nun who co-founded Green Mountain Monastery (with the late Thomas Berry)—a new monastic community dedicated to the healing and protection of Earth and its life systems. A leader in the Sisters of Earth movement, Sr. Gail is working toward grounding religious life within the context of the Universe Story.
Episode 26:
Doug Pagitt - “Universe-Honoring Christianity”
Doug Pagitt is an Emerging Church pastor and consultant for churches and denominations on issues of postmodern culture, social systems, and religious faith. He is co-founder of Emergent Village and the author of A Christianity Worth Believing, among others.
Episode 27:
Edward B. (Ted) Davis - “A History of the Creation-Evolution Conflict”
Ted Davis is professor of the history of science at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. He is past-president of the American Scientific Affiliation, which is a fellowship of men and women of science and related disciplines who share a common fidelity to the Bible and a commitment to integrity in the practice of science.
Episode 28:
Gretta Vosper - “Beyond God: Becoming What We Believe In”
Gretta Vosper is founder of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity. She pastors West Hill United Church in Toronto, which is a progressive community of faith growing out of the Christian tradition. She is the author of With or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important than What We Believe.
Episode 29:
Philip Clayton - “The Emergence of Culture, Mind, and Religion”
Philip Clayton is a philosopher and theologian at Claremont School of Theology, whose focus is the intersection of science and religion. A leading process theologian, he has held visiting professorships at the University of Cambridge, the University of Munich, and Harvard University. His books include The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science andAll That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century.
Episode 30:
John Polkinghorne - “Science and Faith in Understanding Reality”
John Polkinghorne is a physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society—Britain’s most distinguished science society. He is also an Anglican priest and theologian who was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2002. His books include The Faith of a Physicist and Belief in God in an Age of Science.
Episode 31:
Joan Roughgarden - “Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness”
Joan Roughgarden is professor of biology and geophysics at Stanford University. Her specialty is the evolution of social and sexual behaviors and mutualistic interactions, emphasizing the role of cooperation. She is the author of Evolution and the Christian Faith; The Genial Gene; and Evolution's Rainbow.
Episode 32:
Kevin Kelly - “Faith at the Leading Edge of Technology”
Kevin Kelly is co-founder and “senior maverick” of Wired magazine and former publisher and editor of The Whole Earth Review. Author of New Rules for the New Economy; Out of Control; and What Technology Wants, Kelly blends his Christian experience with his leading edge ideas of evolution and the human future.
Episode 33:
Linda Gibler - “An Evolutionary View of Sacraments”
Linda Gibler is a Dominican Sister of Houston and associate academic dean at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. She is also adjunct professor for the Loyola Institute for Ministry, science editor for the Collins Foundation Press, and author of From the Beginning to Baptism: Scientific and Sacred Stories of Water, Oil, and Fire.
Episode 34:
Spencer Burke - “The Emerging Church: A Heretical Guide”
Spencer Burke is a former megachurch pastor and now an Emerging Church leader. Creator of TheOOZE.com, an international online community for Christians to connect through articles and social networking, he is the author of A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity.
Episode 35:
Ursula King - “Evolutionary Spirituality and the Power of Love”
Ursula King is professor emerita of theology and religious studies at the University of Bristol, and vice president of the World Congress of Faiths. She is the author of Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard de Chardin; Religion and Gender; and The Search for Spirituality: Our Global Quest for a Spiritual Life.
Episode 36:
Joan Chittister - “God and the Evolutionary World”
Joan Chittister is a Benedictine Sister and author of more than 40 books. She co-chairs the U.N. Global Peace Initiative of Women and writes a column for National Catholic Reporter. She is also co-author with Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, of Uncommon Gratitude, which reveals a face of reality that can only be experienced in a state of gratitude.
Episode 37:
Paul Smith - “Expanding the Trinity: God in 3D”
Paul Smith is co-pastor of Broadway Church in Kansas City, Missouri, where he has served for 47 years. Author of Integral Christianity: The Spirit's Call to Evolve, and Is It Okay to Call God Mother? Considering the Feminine Face of God, he and his church were expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2003 for blessing gay and lesbian unions.
Episode 38:
Michael Dowd - “Evidence as Divine Communication: REALizing Faith”
Michael Dowd is an itinerant evolutionary evangelist and religious naturalist. He is the author of Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, which was endorsed by a half-dozen Nobel Prize–winning scientists and dozens of religious leaders, liberals and conservatives alike.
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