Past Events and Screenings

Webinar at 5:00 pm EDT

Please join IRAS for another session of the monthly webinar series, Science, Religion, and Society, featuring

Dr. Jennifer J. Wiseman, Director of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program at AAAS, and an astrophysicist at NASA.                                  

Respondent: Dr. Steven Finette (Ph.D. in biophysics, Syracuse University), physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC.
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Modern telescopes are revealing an incredible, beautiful, and active universe. Telescopes are also "time machines," sampling ancient light from distant stars and galaxies, revealing a universe that over vast time has transformed everything in existence.  From a burst of initial energy and inflation, we now see a fruitful universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, and — at least on one planet — life.  Should we feel insignificant or inspired when we consider this incredible, developing universe? Through images of beautiful nebulae, active planets, and even infant galaxies, this talk will show how current and future astronomical discoveries inspire contemplation of human purpose and connection to a magnificent cosmos.

Dr. Jennifer Wiseman is an astrophysicist, author, and speaker. She studies the process of star and planet formation in our galaxy using radio, optical, and infrared telescopes. She is also interested in national science policy and public science engagement. and directs the program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Wiseman studied physics at MIT, co-discovering comet Wiseman-Skiff in 1987, and continued in astronomy with her doctoral research at Harvard. She has worked with several international observatories and is currently a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Wiseman is a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, a network of Christians in Science. She frequently gives public talks on the excitement of scientific discovery and appears in many venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NOVA, and National Public Radio.

The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science webinar is FREE but registration is required.

Register for September 29 Webinar.

For questions, contact CJ Love: carolynjlove3@gmail.com

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Beginning September 22nd, the Deeptime Network will offer a nine-month program on Deeptime Leadership & Personal Empowerment. Deeptime Network draws on the work of Thomas Berry and Journey of the Universe, among other sources.

Presenters include Stephan Martin, Brian Swimme, Ursula Goodenough, Coleen & Duane Elgin, Gail Worcelo, Herman Greene, Robert Athickal, Yona Frenchhawk, Matt Cobb, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and many others.

The program offers a certificate and professional development hours, and it includes three modules:

1. Introducing the New Cosmology
2. Applying the New Cosmology
3. Deeptime Leadership Practicum.

Join the full program or individual modules. Learn more here.

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Virtual event at 8:00 p.m. CDT

Celebrate the release of the 5-volume set, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Center for Humans and Nature) with editors and contributors Gavin Van Horn, John Hausdoerffer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and more.

Hosted by Point Reyes Books and the Center for Humans and Nature

Register here for this free event.

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9:30am – 2:00pm

Presented by  John Grim and Sam King

Wisdom House Retreat & Conference Center
229 East Litchfield Road
Litchfield, CT 06759

Learn more here.

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On July 19, 2021, Executive Producers Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim attended a screening of Journey of the Universe for the Capital Institute's Lighthouse Lecture Series held on Native Mashantucket Pequot land in Stonington, Connecticut. The film provided a cosmological context at the outset of the conference that helped inspire the wide-ranging discussions of regenerative economics over the following days.
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4:00 – 5:30pm Eastern Time

This webinar will describe the 10-year odyssey of creating Journey of the Universe and the 10 years of bringing it out into ever widening circles.

To register and add this event to your calendar, click here.

Schedule:

The Journey of Journey: Making the Film

     Brian Thomas Swimme, co-author, Journey of the Universe
     Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-author, Journey of the Universe
     John Grim, co-producer, Journey of the Universe film

The Future of Journey: Engaging with the Film

     Jennifer Morgan, Deeptime Network
     Devin O’Dea, Journey of the Universe Project Director
     Sam King, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

Q&A


For further exploration:

     Journey of the Universe
     Yale/Coursera classes on Journey of the Universe
     Deeptime Network
     Sign up for the Journey of the Universe newsletter.

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Watch the recording:

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Join Yale University’s Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, leading scholars in the fields of religion and ecology, and Nature Initiative Director Mark Fowler for a virtual Q&A about Journey of the Universe. This award-winning film draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology, biology, ecology, and biodiversity with insights concerning the nature of the universe.

Learn more and register here!

If you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can use your account to watch Journey of the Universe when convenient for you. If you are not an Amazon Prime subscriber, a link to the film will be sent to you by January 13th, valid until January 28th. Watch the film by 5 pm on Thursday, January 28th to best engage with our Q&A with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.

About Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim teach at Yale School of the Environment and Yale Divinity School. They direct the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, which arose from ten conferences they organized at Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions. They are series editors of the Harvard volumes from the conferences on Religion and Ecology.

Tucker specializes in East Asian religions, especially Confucianism. Grim specializes in indigenous traditions, especially Native American religions.

Grim and Tucker have written a number of books including Ecology and Religion (Island Press, 2014) and edited the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology (2017). They are editors for the series on Ecology and Justice from Orbis Books.

They were students of Thomas Berry and collaborated over several decades to edit his books. They also wrote Thomas Berry: A Biography with Andrew Angyal (Columbia, 2019).

With his article “The New Story,” Berry was a major inspiration for Journey of the Universe. With Brian Thomas Swimme, Tucker and Grim created this multi-media project that includes a book (Yale, 2011), an Emmy award winning film, a series of Conversations, and online courses from Yale/Coursera.

Until 2020, following in Berry’s footsteps, Grim served as president of the American Teilhard Association and Tucker as Vice President for over three decades.

About Grace Farms

Grace Farms Foundation’s interdisciplinary humanitarian mission is to pursue peace through five initiatives — nature, arts, justice, community, and faith — and Grace Farms, a SANAA-designed site for convening people across sectors. Our stake in the ground is to end modern slavery and gender-based violence, and create more grace and peace in our local and global communities.

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Wilson Hall at First Presbyterian Church of Rumson
4 E. River Road
Rumson, NJ, USA

7-9pm

Q&A with John Grim

Hosted by Waterspirit

Admission: $5 per ticket, including a bag of popcorn. Children under 5 are free!

Learn more here.