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Join us for a screening of Emmy award-winning film Journey of the Universe, an awe-inspiring voyage through the history of the life-giving universe that we call home. Following the movie will be an in-depth Q&A with John Grim, Professor of Religion and Ecology at Yale University.

Location: Wilson Hall at First Presbyterian Church of Rumson, 4 E. River Road, Rumson, NJ 07760

Admission: $5 per ticket, including a bag of popcorn. Children under 5 are free!

More information: water@waterspirit.org

ABOUT THE FILM:

Journey of the Universe is a 52-minute film that narrates the 14 billion year story of the universe’s development, from the great flaring forth at the universe’s inception to the emergence of simple molecules and atoms to the evolution of galaxies, stars, solar systems, and planetary life of greater complexity and consciousness. This is a story that inspires wonder as we begin to understand such complexity through science and appreciate such beauty through poetry, art, history, philosophy, and religion. It also awakens us to the dynamic processes of evolution that are chaotic and destructive, as well as creative and life-generating.

ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER:

John Grim is Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar in Religion and Ecology at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School. He is Coordinator of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with his wife, Mary Evelyn Tucker, who is co-author of Journey of the Universe. Together, they were executive producers of the Journey of the Universe film. They were students and collaborators with Thomas Berry and editors of his books. Grim is also President of the American Teilhard Association.