By Valerie Andrews Reinventing Home Summer 2020 A scholar and a Passionist priest who called himself a “geologian,” Berry was fluent in fourteen languages and widely read in the disciplines of archaeology, philosophy, cosmology, religion, earth science and world...
By Dean Dettloff America: The Jesuit Review August 23, 2019 Excerpt from the article: St. Gabriel’s was the first church in Canada to be certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or L.E.E.D., rating system. From its floor plan to its building...
The Gaia Foundation June 2019 As a cultural historian, Thomas Berry reminded us that civilisations which grow rapidly by destroying their life support system, collapse rapidly too. What is required of us now, he insisted, is to transform from a human-centred to an...
By Peter Reason Winter 2019. It was several years ago that I first came across the shocking idea that humans were moving more physical stuff around the planet than the natural processes of volcanos and earthquakes, rivers and tides. In the last few years, the idea of...
By Drew Dellinger Kosmos Journal Summer 2018 Forty years after Thomas Berry’s “The New Story,” new generations are seizing on the power of narrative. I was sitting in a classroom in Assisi, Italy, with one of the leading environmental thinkers of our time, and he was...
By Sam Mickey In The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, vol. 4, eds. Dominick A. DellaSala and Michael I. Goldstein, 151-157. Oxford: Elsevier, 2018. Humans, throughout their evolution, have used stories, images, and symbols to understand themselves and the world...
By Steve Snider 2018 Drew Dellinger, Thomas Berry, and Steve Snider in front of the Temple of Minerva in Assisi in the Piazza del Commune (1991) Rising steeply out of the endless miles of beautiful green and yellow pastures in the Umbrian valley of central...
Animas Valley Institute — founded in 1980 by Bill Plotkin — offers a rich assortment of journeys into the mysteries of nature and psyche, including soulcraft™ intensives, contemporary vision fasts, and training programs for nature-based soul guides. On January 20,...
By Daniel T. Spencer Worldviews 21 (2017): 195-207. Read this review essay here.
By Sharon Abercrombie National Catholic Reporter June 9, 2015 When graduating seniors at Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, Calif., bid farewell June 13 to their alma mater, many will have signed onto a pledge to carry their school’s social and environmental...