By Peter Reason Learning how Land Speaks November 17, 2024 Learning How Land Speaks is deeply influenced by the living cosmos panpsychism articulated by Freya Mathews and this perspective has substantially informed our work with Rivers. But, leafing through old papers...
25th Anniversary Celebration of Awe and Wonder
Sisters of the Earth Community Green Mountain Monastery/Thomas Berry Sanctuary June 1, 2024 Read the full newsletter here. Listen to our Global Zoom Call Celebration with Mary Evelyn Tucker and voices from around the world:
Don’t forget the spiritual side of Earth Day
By Daniel P. Horan National Catholic Reporter April 20, 2023 In his 2009 book The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century, the late Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry reflected on Christians living in an age of climate catastrophe. Drawing from...
A New Story For The Earth
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...
Only One Earth
By Kelvin Ravenscroft Thomas Berry Manchester Season of Creation Summer 2022 Read the newsletter here.
The Architecture of Eco-Theology: Towards a New Typology for Christian Sacred Space
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,...
Artist paints icons of endangered species to ‘foster ecological conversion’
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...
Evolutionary living through mutual mentoring
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...
10 years later, ‘Journey of the Universe’ film more relevant, urgent than ever
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...
Renamed Passionist retreat house reflects Berry’s call to heal the Earth
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...