Posts Tagged ‘Thomas Berry’

A Visit from Thomas Berry in the Rockies

By Chad Crawford • Jul 7th, 2009 • Category: living

I was in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado with my family last week. To describe the trip, I could show this photo and write about how I had an intensely mystical experience with God in the mountains. Which I did. But my trips to the mountains are always simultaneously joyful and mournful. The story [...]


Thomas Berry (1914-2009): His ‘Great Work’ Continues

By Chad Crawford • Jun 3rd, 2009 • Category: thinking

I just pulled my copy of The Great Work down on Sunday to reread it, and yesterday I heard the news in a staff meeting. The preeminent cultural historian and Passionist priest, Fr. Thomas Berry, died June 1 peacefully at age 94 in Greensboro, North Carolina, surrounded by people who love him. The Great Work [...]