“At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived. The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other…If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.”
—Thomas Berry, “The Spirituality of the Earth”
We are at a moment of enormous crisis in which every major institution—political, economic, educational, and religious—seems to be unraveling before our eyes. This moment is being described as a polycrisis of social and environmental challenges, including wars that drag us further into dead ends of militarism and empire. We are looking for ways through a morass of problems that seems insurmountable. We feel in the dark because we have lost our way, our connections, our grounding. Ecoanxiety engulfs us; climate grief enwraps us. All we want to do is turn off the barrage of awful news.
