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Author Archives: Jonas
Missa Gaia – Earth Mass
Missa Gaia, subtitled A Mass in Celebration of Mother Earth Recorded Live in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Grand Canyon, first became available as a CD in 1982. The back cover provides additional details about the … Continue reading
Book: Earth’s Echo: Sacred Encounters with Nature, by Robert M. Hamma
The basic theme running through this book of brief spiritual texts and prayers is that God has infused nature with his presence, just as he is present within each one of us. In his introductory chapter, Hamma writes: So while … Continue reading
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Evangelical Christians and Climate Change
In a previous post, I mentioned Berry’s idea that two communities, the redemption community, most prominently Evangelical Christians, and the creation community, have developed in the West since the Middle Ages, the former basing its understanding of the natural word … Continue reading
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Nature’s freshness deep down things
The following poem by the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins is an example of how natural and theological language can work together to create a powerful expression of the divine in nature: God’s Grandeur The world is charged with the … Continue reading
An Ocean of Matter
Like Thomas Berry (see preceding post), Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), the Jesuit geologist and paleontologist, was also deeply attracted by the natural world. Growing up in the Auvergne region of France, he explored its hilly terrain with an eye toward … Continue reading
The Meadow
As a Catholic priest, Thomas Berry was intimately familiar with the biblical stories of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Moreover, his scholarly explorations introduced him to a multitude of stories from the other major religious traditions as well as indigenous cultures. But … Continue reading
The New Story
Spiritual practices are often deeply related to stories of religious figures. Christian contemplatives engage in lectio divina or holy reading of the Bible and thus are thoroughly familiar with its many narratives from the foundational creation stories to the four … Continue reading
First thoughts . . .
Those of us seeking to root our life journey in a particular spirituality – some spiritual practice that can guide us and give our life meaning, inevitably discover that there is a wide range of spiritual paths to choose from. Today, … Continue reading
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