The following reflections were offered by Brian Edward Brown, emeritus professor at Iona College, for the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue in its Contemplative Ecology Circle. Reflections on “Human Presence” in The Dream of the Earth (December 15, 2022)...
How a moment in a meadow seeded a global movement: Earth Jurisprudence explained The Gaia Foundation November 9, 2022 On the anniversary of Thomas Berry’s birthday, we share an animation and interactive story reflecting on how his philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence...
By Kelvin Ravenscroft “Only One Earth” (Summer 2022) “Revealing that which is Hidden” (Winter 2021) “The Space Between” (Autumn 2021) “Healing the Earth” (World Environment Day, June 5, 2021) “In the Forest” (Spring 2021)
By Kelvin Ravenscroft Thomas Berry Manchester Season of Creation Summer 2022 Read the newsletter here.
By Roberto Chiotti Religions 2022, 13(1), 29 This paper will begin by exploring the underlying scriptural and theological foundations for a Christian response to the ecological crisis with particular focus on the writings of cultural historian, Father Thomas Berry,...
By Barbara Fraser EarthBeat May 21, 2021 The panther's greenish eyes, staring directly at the viewer, are hypnotic. Caught in a moment of calm, etched against a golden background, it seems to be waiting. But this is no ordinary painting. The Florida panther is an...
By Judith Best Global Sisters Report April 19, 2021 During this pandemic in which — at the time of this writing in late June — more than 124,000 Americans had died of COVID-19, seven School Sisters of Notre Dame met for a five-day retreat. We reflected on the vision...
By Brian Roewe EarthBeat April 9, 2021 Ten years ago, evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme took television viewers on a daylong journey to the tiny Greek isle of Samos to tell the nearly 14-billion-year tale of a vast, unfolding universe, from clouds of space dust...
By Peter Feuerherd EarthBeat April 2, 2021 NEW YORK — Seeing Fr. Thomas Berry's portrait on the walls of the Passionist monastery and retreat house in Jamaica, New York, it is difficult to imagine a time when the priest who helped enshrine the environment as a central...
By Magda Bennásar Global Sisters Report January 7, 2021 Yes, we can approach Mother Nature. Yes, we can hug the trees. Yes, we can embrace the waves and let the air we breathe permeate us slowly and firmly like God's Spirit: hugging, embracing and permeating our whole...