Loyal Rue, Michael Dowd, and Connie Barlow gather outdoors at Loyal's cabin in Iowa to share what too few are willing to discuss: a worldview shift that precludes the possibility of a bright future for our civilization. A recurrent theme is the

26a. Friends on Dark Mountain: Rue, Dowd, Barlow

Jan 22nd, 2016 51m 21s

25. Loyal Rue: Religion Is Not About God

Jan 21st, 2016 30m 19s

Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, published his fourth book in 2006 titled, Religion Is Not About God. In August 2014, Michael Dowd conversed with Loyal about this book. Loyal's biographical reflections on what in

24. Loyal Rue: Nature Is Enough (pt 2)

Aug 13th, 2015 1h 41m

Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, published his fifth book in 2011 titled, Nature Is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life. In August 2014, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd conversed with Loyal about

23. Loyal Rue: Nature Is Enough (pt 1)

Jan 6th, 2015 52m 36s

22. Loyal Rue: Everybody's Story

Dec 10th, 2014 19m

Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, published his third book in 2000 titled, Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution. In August 2014, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd conversed with Loyal about this book

21. Loyal Rue: By the Grace of Guile

Nov 17th, 2014 41m 21s

Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, published his second book, By the Grace of Guile: The Role of Deception in Natural History and Human Affairs, in 1994. In August 2014, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd conversed wit

20. Loyal Rue: Amythia

Oct 9th, 2014 38m 29s

Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, wrote his first book, Amythia, in 1989. In August 2014, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd conversed with Loyal about his book and the malady of modernism, amythia. View the interview

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Aug 7th, 2014

19. Jan Dash: The Climate Portal Online

Jan 19th, 2014 26m 40s

Jan Dash introduces the Climate Portal, for which he is the Managing Editor. The portal is part of the Climate Initiative of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office in New York City. The Climate Portal is a massive aggregator linking t

18. Chris Henderson: Aboriginal Power

Dec 16th, 2013 35m

Chris Henderson is one of Canada's foremost thinkers on innovation in the areas of business, cleantech, renewable energy, and corporate sustainability. His 2013 book, Aboriginal Power: Clean Energy and the Future of Canada's First Peoples is th

17. Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind

May 26th, 2013 58m 3s

Jonathan Haidt is the author of the best-selling The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. A moral psychologist now at The Stern School of Business at New York University, Prof. Haidt writes, "My research in rece

16. Jonah Sachs: Winning the Story Wars

Mar 14th, 2013 46m 47s

In this episode we dig beneath the evidence and ideas that support a modern, naturalistic perspective and seek out the patterns and emphases that propel concepts into the realm of inspiring. Our guide is Jonah Sachs, author of Winning the Story

15. Thomas W. Clark: Worldview Naturalism

Dec 22nd, 2012 38m 32s

Tom Clark, philosophical naturalist and consultant, is creator of naturalism.org, founder and director of the Center for Naturalism, author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses, and former host of the Philosophy Café at Harvard

14. Deirdre Barrett: Supernormal Stimuli

Nov 15th, 2012 52m 44s

Deirdre Barrett is a psychologist who conducts research at Harvard Medical School. Her 2010 book, Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose, is the subject of this interview. Here she explores the practical implic

13. Alison Gopnik: Evolution, Modernity, and the Teenage Mind

May 7th, 2012 39m 43s

Alison Gopnik speaks about her research toward understanding how young children acquire their picture of the world -- especially the ways in which they seem to develop, test, and amend hypotheses not unlike the methods of scientists. What spark

12. Terrence Deacon: "How Mind Emerged from Matter"

Feb 9th, 2012 1h 4m

Terrence (Terry) Deacon highlights the core ideas in his 2011 book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. A professor of biological anthropology and neurosciences at the University of California (Berkeley), Deacon is the author of t

11. Richard Dawkins: The Magic of Reality

Oct 12th, 2011 24m 19s

Barlow and Dowd take an inside look at Richard Dawkins' first children's book, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. The couple recite excerpts and discuss why this "courageous and necessary book" may indeed help evolve the reli

10. Primack and Abrams: View from the Center of the Universe

Sep 6th, 2011 1h 9m

Barlow and Dowd engage with astrophysicist Joel R. Primack and cultural historian Nancy Ellen Abrams about their unique partnership in translating a fully scientific understanding of the universe (and our place in it) into memorable and inspiri

9. Jennifer Morgan: Born with a Bang

Aug 17th, 2011 54m 27s

Jennifer Morgan is the author of the most popular (and scientifically accurate) children's book series on the Epic of Evolution. Titled Born with a Bang, Jennifer's trilogy was illustrated by Dana Lynne Andersen. In this conversation with hosts

8. Shane Dowd: "An Evolutionary Understanding of Gaming Addiction"

Jun 19th, 2011 36m 47s

Shane Dowd is a 26-year-old physical trainer who is bringing an understanding of evolutionary brain science and evolutionary psychology into his life and into his work of empowering clients. Here he reflects on the gaming addiction that had his

7. Paul Kurtz: "Planetary Humanism"

Oct 3rd, 2010 44m 55s

Paul Kurtz is one of the prime movers of the secular humanist movement, including his authorship in 1973 of Humanist Manifesto II. Among his accomplishments is the founding of the Council for Secular Humanism, the Center for Inquiry, Free Inq

6. Ursula Goodenough: "The Sacred Depths of Nature"

Aug 27th, 2010 52m 45s

Ursula Goodenough is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to her technical publications, she is the author of the acclaimed book in the genre of religious naturalism: The Sacred Depths of Nature. In this con

5. PZ Myers: "Changing the World One Blogpost at a Time"

Aug 5th, 2010 56m 59s

PZ Myers is a biologist who teaches at the Morris campus of the University of Minnesota. He is the most widely read science blogger in the world. His blog, Pharyngula, is read by more than 50,000 people a day. PZ's role as a blogger is not

4b. Jon Cleland-Host: "It's All Really There!"

Jul 9th, 2010 30m 10s

Chemist Jon Cleland-Host turns his attention from his parental role in giving his young sons an inspiring naturalism (see podcast episode 4a) to the ways that his deep-time, scientific awareness shapes his inner world: spiritual, emotional, a