psychologist, writes that Dowd does a great job of expanding minds beyond sectarian belief systems and entertains while doing it. Works Dowd's Earthspirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity (1991, Twenty-third Publications) was inspired by the writings of cultural historian Thomas Berry, cosmologist Brian Swimme, and deep ecologist Joanna Macy. His preachings since 2002 provided material for Thank God for Evolution (2008), a work influenced by Thomas Berry and David Sloan Wilson, among others, and endorsed by six Nobel Prize-winning scientists: Craig Mello, John C. Mather, Thomas C. Schelling, Frank Wilczek, Lee Hartwell and Charles Townes. Starting in the spring of 2008, Professor Hogue at the Meadville Lombard Theological School was using Dowd's book in his course on theology and science. Penguin purchased the worldwide rights to it in mid-2008. * Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World – Viking Adult (June 19, 2008), * Earthspirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity, – 23 Pubns, (April 1991), * THE MEANING OF LIFE IN THE 1990s: An Ecological, Christian Perspective * Study Guide - Thank God for Evolution, 4 hr DVD See also Ecotheology Evolutionary psychology of religion Liberal Christianity Progressive Christianity Religion and environmentalism Spiritual ecology Theistic evolution References Further reading By Connie Barlow Exceptional Wisdom Radio (Dowd's wife and ministry companion) The Ghosts of Evolution – Basic Books (February 28, 2002), Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science – Springer; 1 edition (September 26, 1997), Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life – The MIT Press (August 4, 1995), From Gaia to Selfish Genes – The MIT Press (July 8, 1992), Brian Swimme – The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era: A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos, Harper Collins, 1992 (1994, ) Jerome A. Stone – Religious Naturalism Today: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative, State University of New York Press, 2008, Chet Raymo – When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: Making of a Religious Naturalist, Sorin Books (September 2008), Ursula Goodenough – Sacred Depths of Nature, Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (June 15, 2000), Eric Chaisson – Epic of Evolution, Columbia University Press (March 2, 2007), Loyal Rue – Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution, State University of New York Press, 1999, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, chapter: