Joining the Worship of the Cosmos—Part 1: How Creation Teaches Us To Worship

Human beings are of the Earth. We are born of the Earth and we return to the Earth when we die. Genesis speaks of humankind being created from the dust of the Earth and on Ash Wednesday we remember this with the words “From dust you came and to dust you will return” as we place the ashen cross on our foreheads. And finally, we rely on the Earth for our survival. The Earth feeds us, clothes, us, shelters us, and provides us with the air and water we need.

When we recognise how deeply connected we are with the Earth, we cannot deny that it is essential to include, in our worship of God, the Earth which is our divinely created, God-given home. And, along with our planet, we also need to include the other God-created, God-beloved, and God-imaged creatures that share it with us.

In this episode of The Progressive Worship Podcast we begin a new series that will run through September and that will explore how creation teaches us to worship God more wholeheartedly and authentically. In this first episode, we explore three principles that we can use to allow a creation-centred approach to deepen and enrich our worship and spirituality.

Here’s the link to Michael Dowd’s The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity audio series that I reference in this episode.

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