Thomas Berry was a cultural historian, a monk and a Roman Catholic Priest. Though he was a member of the church he lived on the edge of the institution. His unique talents out on the edge enabled him to look back into the church’s history. He could see its limitations and how they would affect […]
A celebration of the great beauty and deep wisdom of the unique, magical landscape of southeastern Utah. A place full of stone tablets holding both the vast breadth of our planet’s history, and the simplest of commandments.
The Ridge and Valley Charter School, Blairstown, NJ is a pre-eminent example of a school inspired by the work of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme and the movie/book Journey of the Universe. Founded in 1999 by a group of people associated with Genesis Farm in Blairstown, NJ and its pioneering Earth Literacy curriculum developed by […]
Orbis Books has started a new series: Catholicity in an Evolving Universe Series. This book by Ilia Delio demonstrates that catholicity is a conscious awareness of how everything–sun and stars, maple trees and muddy rivers, and all organisms from the single-celled to homo sapiens–forms one thing. It is a dynamic, spiritual quality that quite literally […]
This link connects you to the Curriculum Framework section of the Ridge and Valley Charter School’s website. Here you can read about the philosophy behind, and different elements in, our framework. You can also download the Curriculum Framework document to read in it’s entirety.
Now that I’m free to wander and find native plants and flowers wherever I go, I often remember the spirit of a place by the plants that I saw there. They tell me a complex story about the place they’re in. They bring back the scents, the bird song, the sighing of wind, the feel […]
This brief blog credits mothers and Mother Earth, but focuses on the stars that gave birth to both, and to the entire cosmos. It reflects on our place as the “missing link” in the evolution toward authentic humanity.
From the introduction: Since the earliest expressions of culture, humans have sought to understand and efine our place in the universe. To this end, we have developed cosolgies, which are stories that invoke our common experience of reality. These stories describe where have come fro and where we are going. The religioius and philosophical traditions […]
Peter Drucker, the management guru, once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” He was referring to how new business strategies run headlong into long-established and powerful corporate cultures. The same may be said for those of us “new cosmologists” developing strategies for climate change. We run into a profit-haunted economic culture that gobbles up Earth’s […]
This blog gives historical background on the equinox celebrated this month, explains why religious celebrations occur now, and suggests ways to celebrate it.
Our Vision is to ignite our sense of connectedness with Earth and nurture a spirituality of Earth care through learning circles.
Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
Gladwyne Montessori is an independent Montessori school on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
The result is transformative.
