By Thomas Berry This essay is published in The Great Work. Read this essay here.
Religious Studies and the Global Community of Man
By Thomas Berry Journal of Dharma, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 85-100 July 1975 This essay bears some similarity to “Religion in the Global Human Community” from Berry’s The Sacred Universe, but there are also some fairly significant differences, making this a unique...
Only The Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Peggy Whalen-Levitt The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, 2011 The materialist philosophy that has dominated Western civilization for the past four hundred years is coming to an end. In "Only the Sacred: Transforming Education in the...
Reflections by Brian Edward Brown
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 “The Ecological Age” in The Dream of the Earth (February 16, 2023)...
Chrysalis
From 2004 to 2024, the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World published a biannual newsletter, Chrysalis, which has reached an international audience. Chrysalis is a forum where thoughts on the relationship between the inner life of the child and the...
Thomas Berry Manchester Newsletters
By Kelvin Ravenscroft "A Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" (August 6, 2025) “‘Small Is Beautiful’ Revisited – Towards A Buddhist Economics” (Spring 2025) “The Fertile Void” (Spring 2024) “‘The Miracle of Being’ – A Reflection for World Environment Day” (June 5,...
Learning from Thomas Berry
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...