Tag Archives: cosmology

Finding gratitude before breakfast

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The Earth has completed a full turn around the sun since, inspired by the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, I set the intention to offer gratitude to everyone in the natural world every day, first thing in the morning, for a year. … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged animism, attitudes toward nature, birds, climate change, cosmology, global warming, gratitude, thanking nature, Thanksgiving Address, trees, wildflowers | 5 Comments

Our creative universe

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

So I’m at a party a dozen years ago in Oakland, California—I think it’s in my own living room, though I can’t remember for sure. Downstairs the salsa music is blaring, but up here people are gathered in threes and … Continue reading →

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Favorite Friday: Words and trees

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Note from Priscilla: You saw it once, but that blog post disappeared without making the Top Ten. Favorite Friday is a chance to revisit earlier posts and enjoy them once again. This post first appeared on March 17, 2010. This … Continue reading →

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Words and trees

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

This week is spring break at the college where I teach, and I’m enjoying a respite from the endless flow of words. (Ironic that I sit down to write a blog post.) For a person who deals in words, I … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality | Tagged animism, attitudes toward nature, cosmology, language, science and religion, trees | 13 Comments

The great work of Thomas Berry

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Thomas Berry, one of the foremost Christian thinkers to root his philosophy in the Earth, died yesterday at the age of 94. Born to the Appalachian hills, he became a Catholic priest of the Passionist order and then a renowned … Continue reading →

Posted in nature, spirituality, writing | Tagged cosmology, ecological ethics, science, Thomas Berry | 2 Comments

String theory for mere mortals

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I had the treat this week of attending a lecture by Brian Greene on the CU campus—another packed-to-the-gills science lecture, this one in a two-thousand-seat auditorium. Greene’s book The Elegant Universe and PBS documentary of the same name a few … Continue reading →

Posted in education, nature | Tagged Brian Greene, cosmology, physics, science, string theory | 2 Comments

Finding what you don’t expect: A runaway universe

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Yesterday I talked about astrophysicists’ love for being perplexed. These days, a hot topic of wonder and perplexity is the accelerating speed of the universe. I remember when I first heard the surprising news. It was a decade or so … Continue reading →

Posted in nature | Tagged Alexei Filippenko, astrophysics, cosmology, dark energy, Michelle Thaller, origins of the universe, Saul Perlmutter, science, space | 1 Comment