Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Our future depends on whether we see ourselves as separate or as one sacred community with the Earth. 🌍✨ More at fore.yale.edu 152
Reposted by Thomas Berry LegacyThomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025A call to reshape the human venture toward a more benign presence on Earth — what he called the Great Work of our time. Presented by Sam King, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. What’s one “Great Work” you feel called to take on? 062
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025A call to reshape the human venture toward a more benign presence on Earth — what he called the Great Work of our time. Presented by Sam King, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. What’s one “Great Work” you feel called to take on? 062
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Rev. Dr. Andy Barnett shares how faith, justice, and sustainability shape his work. Full interview: yaleseries.com 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025“It’s easier to focus on what unites us than on what divides us when you’re singing next to somebody.” Rev. Dr. Andy Barnett What’s a song that’s helped you feel part of something bigger? Watch the full interview at yalesseriess.com 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025“The Earth is an awesome mystery, as fragile as we are ourselves… exploitation of the Earth is exploitation of the human.” —Thomas Berry To harm Earth is to harm ourselves. To protect her is to protect our shared future. What would change if we lived as if this were true? 120
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Ecological Civilization asks us to rethink what it means to flourish. Rooted in Chinese ecological thought and carried through global interfaith traditions, this emerging paradigm places Earth, not empire, at the center. Learn more at fore.yale.edu 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025We live in a marvelous world—creative, intelligent, alive. Living Earth Community gathers voices across disciplines to explore our sacred relationship with the more-than-human world. It invites us to reimagine belonging on a living planet. Coming soon. 031
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025“What we do to the forests is a mirror of what we do to ourselves.” Mahatma Gandhi Ecological civilization begins when we treat Earth not as resource, but as relationship. 021
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Care begins with curiosity. Stewardship begins with wonder. There is no ecological future without love. 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025📖 The New Ecozoic Reader is coming! This volume connects Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Mohawk wisdom, blending academic rigor with creative reflection—a testament to the Great Work of our time curated by a diverse group of scholars, faith leaders, and cultural workers. Stay tuned! 011
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025“Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.” Dacher Keltner ✨ What moment of wonder shifted your perspective? 🌍 Living Earth Community is coming soon! 021
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Stephen Blackmer, chaplain of Church of the Woods, shares in the Reflections on Religion & Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field series how theology and forest conservation converged in his life. ▶️ Tune in: yaleseries.com 🌱 What’s one way you feel nature has shaped your spiritual life? 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Native communities safeguarded these survival values long before climate change hit our radar. They’re on the frontlines of resistance, reminding us that true balance isn’t optional—it’s how we endure. How will you weave Indigenous wisdom into your climate action? 030
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Not just a site—a shift. The Living Earth Community offers tools to reframe learning through the lens of ecological sacredness. Launching in October. Will your classroom be ready? 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Haile Selassie's birthday echoes like drumbeats through Rastafari communities. To many, he is the Black Messiah who reclaims dignity through liberation. In her interview, Blair Nelsen doesn't just reflect on spiritual ecology—she roots it in memory. Watch the full interview at yaleseries.com 000
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Blair Nelsen calls eco‑grief what it is: love that refuses to look away. Watch her full interview in the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology series → yaleseries.com Where are you turning grief into guardianship this week? 021
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Today, we pause to listen to the ancient voices in the wind, waves, and wilderness. Our Reflections on Religion & Ecology series invites you to hear from Yale alumni who carry that same reverence into their work. Watch the latest interviews at YaleSeries.com 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The ecological crisis isn’t just about resources. It’s about relationship. When we lose touch with the living world—its beauty, its mystery, its intelligence—we also lose our capacity to care for it. Watch the latest interview in Reflections on Religion & Ecology YaleSeries.com 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025If we don’t preach on climate now, will we only preach on grief later? Rev. Jim Antal asked this 15 years ago. Now, his words ring louder than ever. Reflections on Religion & Ecology is a new Yale series spotlighting spiritual leaders who aren't waiting for permission. Watch now: YaleSeries.com 000
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"You're supposed to be a minister, not an academician." Henri Nouwen's words to a young Jim Antal weren't a critique—they were a calling. This is the power of intergenerational torch-passing: one story, one act of courage, one voice at a time. Watch Jim's full interview now: YaleSeries.com 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This series is more than interviews — it’s sacred storytelling for a planet in crisis. Every week we’ll spotlight Yale alumni reimagining the future of faith and ecology. First up: Rev. Jim Antal. 🌍 Watch and reflect: yaleseries.com #ReflectionsOnReligionAndEcology #YaleAlumni #SpiritualEcology 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025“We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are.” Maria Popova We hold space for our gratitude and our determination to protect this precious world. How do you nurture hope in your ecological journey? 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025This isn’t just about climate. It’s about connection. The kind we forgot when we traded reciprocity for extraction, and relationships for resources. Ecology isn’t some distant issue “out there.” It’s here. It’s us. 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025This week, we pause to honor the profound intergenerational love that sustains the religion and ecology field—a love that fuels commitment, nurtures hope, and bridges generations of scholars, activists, and spiritual leaders. How does this love inspire your work or your faith? 030
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025The future is not something we conquer. It’s something we call into being through reverence, relationship, and restraint. Berry reminds us: power becomes sacred when we remember how to ask, not just take. 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Thomas Berry reminds us that every star, every mountain, every living being is part of a profound conversation between Earth and Spirit. How does the cosmos speak to you? Let’s listen deeply and honor the universe as holy scripture written in the language of life. #ThomasBerry #Fore 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025At the Yale Forum, we believe in dissolving false boundaries — between intellect and intuition, ecology and theology, data and reverence. How are you bridging the sacred and the scientific in your work or worldview? #AlanWatts #ReligionAndEcology #ThoughtLeadership #SacredKnowledge #Fore 030
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The climate conversation often collapses into politics. But under it all is something older: shared ground. We work with scholars who are reframing ecology not just as science, but as sacred commons. Because when the land is sacred, scholarship becomes stewardship. #ReligionAndEcology #Fore 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Action is sacred when it’s rooted in care. At the Forum, we see ecology not as an add-on to faith — but as its embodiment. Wherever you are, whatever your tradition, the Earth is calling. How are you answering? #FaithInAction #DalaiLama #EcoJustice #SpiritualEcology #TransformationalAction #Fore 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025This Independence Day, we pause to reflect: What does freedom mean if it comes at the cost of the Earth? True liberation is not domination over nature — it's relationship with it. The wisdom isn’t lost. It’s waiting. #SacredEcology #Fore 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025This week, we spotlight the communities practicing sacred restraint — removing dams, ending extractive rituals, and returning land to Indigenous stewardship. Doing less can be its kind of spiritual discipline. #EcologicalRestoration #SpiritualRestraint #TransformationalAction #Fore 000
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Restoring wetlands, planting food forests, and weaving spiritual practices into direct ecological action — these are not mutually exclusive. We don’t need to choose between the sacred and the practical. What does ecological action look like in your spiritual tradition? #Fore 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025For generations, Indigenous wisdom and spiritual traditions have reminded us that the Earth is not background — she is a voice. A presence. A teacher. What sacred knowledge have you inherited — or ignored? #SacredEcology #RobinWallKimmerer #SpiritualListening #IntergenerationalHandshake #Fore 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025This isn’t nostalgia. It’s instruction. The Earth has always known how to begin again. Now it’s our turn to remember how. #ThomasBerry #TheGreatWork #SacredResilience #ReligionAndEcology #EcozoicHope 000
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“When the mind can engage reality as a question rather than imposing prefabricated answers on it, then one can participate creatively in evolution.” Ilia Delio May we remain question-keepers — not just in thought, but in action. #SacredCuriosity #DeepWisdom #ReligionAndEcology 010
Reposted by Thomas Berry LegacyThomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Thomas Berry reminds us that this planetary shift isn't just material, but moral, spiritual, and educational. As we cross into an ecological age, what would it look like for institutions—faith-based, academic, and civic—to lead with the Earth in mind? #ThomasBerry 011
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Thomas Berry reminds us that this planetary shift isn't just material, but moral, spiritual, and educational. As we cross into an ecological age, what would it look like for institutions—faith-based, academic, and civic—to lead with the Earth in mind? #ThomasBerry 011
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Long before climate science and ecological ethics, ancient wisdom named a truth we still struggle to live by: Nature offers the better way. In a world of artificial urgency and extractive systems, returning to nature’s rhythms isn’t regression — it’s recovery. 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025“We are all made of starstuff.” Carl Sagan You are not small. The calcium in your bones, the iron in your blood, the oxygen in your lungs—all formed in ancient stars. To care for the cosmos begins with caring for this body, this Earth. #CarlSagan #Starstuff #ScienceAndWonder #CosmicEcology 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025You are not separate from the cosmos. You are the cosmos—thinking, breathing, becoming. #StarborneJournal #CosmicConsciousness #ReligionAndScience #Autocosmology #yale #fore 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This isn’t just ecological wisdom—it’s existential truth. Our disconnection from the living Earth isn’t only a planetary crisis. It’s a spiritual one. #ThomasBerry #SacredCommunity #EcologicalSpirituality #MoreThanHumanWorld #GaianWisdom #Interbeing #ReligionAndEcology #TheGreatWork 030
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This isn't metaphor. It's memory. We've never been separate. The stars shaped our bones, the oceans echo our blood. What if true self-awareness means remembering the cosmos within? #ThomasBerry #LargerSelf #CosmicIdentity #SpiritualEcology #GaianWisdom 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025“The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.” Thomas Berry It’s not just about saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves. #ThomasBerry #EcologicalWisdom #Interdependence #SacredEcology #TheGreatWork 041
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025In a time of ecological crisis and cultural fragmentation, Berry reminds us: there is no separate future for humanity that does not include the thriving of the Earth. What we do to rivers, forests, skies—we do to ourselves. #ThomasBerry #TheGreatWork #SpiritualEcology #EcologicalConsciousness 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025“Only now do we begin to understand that the human community and the natural world will go into the future as a single sacred community—or we will both perish in the desert.” Thomas Berry Not poetic flourish. Prophetic clarity. #ThomasBerry #EcologicalWisdom #SacredInterbeing #TheGreatWork 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Thomas Berry once wrote: “The human is neither an addendum nor an intrusion into the universe. We are quintessentially of the Earth.” This isn’t metaphor. It’s identity. What would it mean to live like it’s true? #thomasberry 010
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Thomas Berry died on June 1, in 2008. But his vision lives on. The Earth is not backdrop. It is sacred text. A communion of subjects. We remember. We recommit. The Great Work continues. #ThomasBerry #TheGreatWork #EarthWisdom 020
Thomas Berry Legacy @thomasberrylegacy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025“The Earth is not a collection of fragments, but a living whole.” — Thomas Berry We’re not meant to patch together a planet — we’re meant to participate in a living Earth. #ThomasBerry #TheGreatWork #SpiritualEcology #WholeEarthVision 020