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Subject: MICHAEL DOWD / JAMES HANSEN PROPHETIC PAPER "Pro-Future or Anti-Future?" videos
 

 
 
 
Dear Friends,
 
A mid-summer note, re two things…
 
1.   All 55 Skype interviews I conducted last year as part of “ The Future Is Calling Us to Greatness ” conversation series can now be freely watched online (and the 55 MP3 audio files and transcripts can all be downloaded for $25) here:  http://af.futuregreatness.com   
The series includes a current  U. S. Senator and many of the world’s most respected experts on climate change, resource depletion, sustainability, and a diversity of pro-future spiritual and religious leaders . 
 
2.  In the spirit of Pope Francis’ Encyclical and James Hansen’s recent prophetic paper on sea level rise,  this week  Connie  uploaded the first two videos in  a new educational series we’re creating, “Pro-Future or Anti-Future?”,  which  articulates the heart (though not yet the whole body) of what I’m  sharing  with secular and religious audiences alike these days, and for the foreseeable future…
 
Pro-Future or Anti-Future? (1) Eco-Theology
 
Pro-Future or Anti-Future? (2) Right Relationship to Reality
 
If you find one or both of these helpful, please share the links with others.
 
Thanks!
 
Together for the future,
 
~ Michael (and Connie)
cell: 425-760-9941
Skype: michaelbdowd
Summer address: 4322 N. Lakeshore Dr., Ludington, MI 49431
 
“What’s New?” on our main website 
(e.g., sermon videos: “Embrace Death to Live Life Fully” and “When Religion Fails, Economics Becomes Demonic”)
 
PS. I’ve included the following in case you share this email with others who don’t know us…
 
Michael Dowd is a bestselling evolutionary evangelist and eco-theologian whose work has been featured in  The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Discover, and on television nationally.  His book, Thank God for Evolution , was endorsed by 6 Nobel Prize-winning scientists , noted skeptics, and by religious leaders across the spectrum. Michael and his science writer / climate activist wife, Connie Barlow,  have spoken to more than 2,000 groups throughout North America since 2002. Michael has delivered two TEDx talks and a program at the United Nations. He has also conducted two acclaimed online conversation series’:  “ The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity ” and “ The Future Is Calling Us to Greatness. ” Dowd’s passion for proclaiming a pro-science message of inspiration — what he calls “the gospel of right relationship to reality” — has earned him the moniker ‘ Rev. Reality ’ as he speaks prophetically in secular and religious settings alike about our responsibility to future generations.