JD Remote
Global Kinship webinar
Past guests have included some of my big-name heroes. This is a tremendous honor. I will deliver a modified version of my talk from the Parliament of the World's Religions: Nature's Scripture - The Interfaith Promise of Science. Registration is required: Register here. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpcuigpjItE9F-8VZ5hZe6NOMMaYb88K5q#/registration
Fargo-TBA
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesTBA
Grants Pass – Ancestors: Honoring Them, Becoming Them
UUs of Grants Pass OR 129 NW E ST., Grants Pass, OR, United StatesAncestors - everyone has them, and (spoiler alert!) most of them are dead. Euro-American culture isn’t very good at death; we are so scared of death we’ve perverted the one day each year our ancestors set aside for remembering them to instead focus on giving children candy and expressing our fear with giant inflatable spiders. […]
Pathways- This is Not My Beautiful House
Pathways UU Fellowship of Hurst TX 481 West Harwood Road, Hurst, TX, United StatesOne of our culture’s foundational myths is about ownership, security, and permanence. JD offers a bit of science, some personal experiences, and a Talking Heads song as puzzle pieces toward a new, more vulnerable humility.
Fargo – Building a New Way—DIY
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesJD describes lessons learned from his do-it-yourselfer father and grandfathers, and how those lessons might be applied to building a new way for our increasingly precarious global society. What kind of world do we want for our grandchildren, and for their grandchildren? Are we behaving accordingly? Building is not easy or comfortable—are we willing to […]
Theosophical Society Webcast
Sponsored and hosted by the Theosophical Society in America. Underlying the human world of strife and separation is an oft-neglected landscape of commonality between faiths: the natural world. At precisely the time when our religious and political divisions threaten human existence, science offers a sweeping interfaith vista of how creation works and how it all unfolded. […]
FUUFHC – One Song
JD's first time working with the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. One Song is a favorite service, so it should be fun. Close out 2023 in total unity. One Song - the Science of Unity For millennia mystics and prophets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel […]
Grants Pass- Active Love, an Antidote to Anthropocene Angst
UUs of Grants Pass OR 129 NW E ST., Grants Pass, OR, United StatesThat humans are having major impacts on the planet is now quite clear, and some of those impacts may be evident millions of years from now. Are we a cancer on the biosphere, a plague? Would it be better if we had remained blissfully in the stone age? Our angst about such matters may be […]
Fargo-Morehead UU – Active Love, An Antidote to Anthropocene Angst
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesThat humans are having major impacts on the planet is now quite clear, and some of those impacts may be evident millions of years from now. Are we a cancer on the biosphere, a plague? Would it be better if we had remained blissfully in the stone age? Our angst about such matters may be […]
Fargo-Morehead UU – Fiddling While Rome Burns
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesWhen the entire planet is engulfed in flames (climate change, nuclear arms, fascism, extinction, mass migration), isn’t full-time activism the only reasonable activity? Isn’t everything else a kind of indulgence? What if activism just isn’t your thing? What if your talents and passions lie in something like fiddling? JD shares his own wrestlings with this […]
Global Kinship webinar – One Song: The Science of Unity (LP version!)
Very cool to be asked back for a second talk with Global Kinship's community! Note: You have to register; the link isn't for the webinar, but for registering. They send the link after you register. Description: For millennia mystics and prophets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by […]
Pathways – Fiddling While Rome Burns
Pathways UU Fellowship of Hurst TX 481 West Harwood Road, Hurst, TX, United StatesWhen the entire planet is engulfed in flames (climate change, nuclear arms, fascism, extinction, mass migration), isn’t full-time activism the only reasonable activity? Isn’t everything else a kind of indulgence? What if activism just isn’t your thing? What if your talents and passions lie in something like fiddling? JD shares his own wrestlings with this […]
Fargo-Morehead UU – One Song–the Science of Unity
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesFor millennia mystics and poets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything from human bodies to […]
Kosmic Vespers – Soul of the Whole
An offshoot of Creation Spirituality Communities and Global Kinship. Flyer is here: https://www.jdstillwater.earth/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Kosmic-Vespers-Flyer.jpeg This will be a brief (15-min) "teaching" about science and oneness, embedded in a meditative gathering of folks from all over. Registration is required to get the link. Email mingeicenter@gmail.com to register.
Grants Pass- Awetheism Part 1: The Power and Promise of Awe
UUs of Grants Pass OR 129 NW E ST., Grants Pass, OR, United StatesNew research into the experience of awe reveals that awe makes us feel small but deeply connected, and how this in turn makes us better people. With help from some well-timed lightning strikes (and no help from Siri or Alexa), we’ll explore what’s known about awe’s effects on us, and how it can benefit humanity. […]
Fargo-Morehead UU – Awetheism Part 1: The Promise and Power of Awe
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesNew research into the experience of awe reveals that awe makes us feel small but deeply connected, and how this in turn makes us better people. With help from some well-timed lightning strikes (and no help from Siri or Alexa), we’ll explore what’s known about awe’s effects on us, and how it can benefit humanity. […]
Nature’s Scripture: The Interfaith Promise of Science
An adaptation of JD's talk from the Parliament of the World's Religions, for the Abilene Interfaith Council of Abilene Texas. Talk description:Underlying the human world of strife and separation is an oft-neglected landscape of commonality between faiths: the natural world. At precisely the time when our religious and political divisions threaten the existence of life […]
Rev. Dr. Sheri Pallas – Fireside Creators conversation
Dr. Sheri Pallas is the author of We Have Ruined God–My Journey Out of Religion and Into Unconditional Love. She asked me to review the science chapter of the manuscript, which led to an invitation to discuss further on her weekly Fireside Creators show. Should be very interesting. To watch live (or the recording) this […]
Fargo-Morehead UU – Awe 2 (or election-related)
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesIn this sequel to Part 1, waterfalls cascade us deeper into the science of awe, including: the wonderful word “eudaemonia”; the gifts of people who are pre-disposed to experience awe; and the relations between awe, wonder, spirituality, and ambiguity. Note: the title and topic may change if election chaos erupts. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83556015876
UUFGC- Peace, Love, Understanding, and Manure
UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland MD 211 South Lee St., Cumberland, MD, United StatesSocial polarization is a natural, predictable phenomenon. So is manure. JD Stillwater recounts a profound event of peace-making and innovation that happened one afternoon long ago, involving a microphone set up in a warehouse full of manure. The technology required for understanding and group intelligence is simple and ancient. Manure is optional. (JD will be […]