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Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, responsible for the book Thank God For Evolution<\/a><\/em>, have now begun a newsletter called The Evolutionary Times<\/a><\/em>. In related news, the Clergy Letter Project now has its own YouTube channel<\/a>. And the latest Global Spiral<\/a><\/em> is out from Metanexus, including articles on subjects like Christian physicalism<\/a> and post-metaphysical theology<\/a>, as well as an excerpt from Keith Ward\u2019s most recent book<\/a> (about which I hope to resume, and finish, blogging soon). There\u2019s also video<\/a> and audio<\/a> of a recent talk by Barbara Forrest, and Glenn Branch has comments<\/a> about an award<\/a> that Philip Kitcher\u2019s book<\/a> on Darwin, evolution and religion has won.<\/p>\n

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Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, responsible for the book Thank God For Evolution, have now begun a newsletter called The Evolutionary Times. In related news, the Clergy Letter Project now has its own YouTube channel. And the latest Global Spiral is out from Metanexus, including articles on subjects like Christian physicalism and post-metaphysical theology, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThank God For The Evolutionary Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, responsible for the book Thank God For Evolution, have now begun a newsletter called The Evolutionary Times. 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