My TEDx Talk: Reality Reconciles Science and Religion [View all]

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Rev. Michael Dowd Become a fan
Religious naturalist, sacred realist, big history evangelist, and author of 'Thank God for Evolution'

Posted: 06/20/2014 12:53 pm EDT Updated: 06/20/2014 1:59 pm EDT

Language changes over time, and words create worlds. What we call Reality, the ancients called God, or if you lived in a polytheistic culture, the gods. These were personifications of our inner and outer reality. This fundamental insight not only makes sense of religious differences and bridges the science-religion divide, it also clarifies our way into the future.

Here is my recent TEDxGrandRapids talk, titled, "Reality Reconciles Science and Religion." Below the video player is how I began the talk.

I'm a Big History evangelist -- I preach 'the gospel of right relationship to reality' -- that is, the Good News that is only possible when we, individually and collectively, live in right relationship to what is fundamentally and inescapably REAL.

Now, obviously, there are many different worldviews that inspire people to live in right relationship to reality. The one I'm particularly passionate about I've come to call the path of sacred realism or factual faith. I'm an evidential mystic.

Reality is my God.
Evidence is my scripture.
Big history is my creation story.
Ecology is my theology.
Integrity is my salvation.
Ensuring a just and healthy future is my mission
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