The Project

The Thomas Berry Project seeks to promote ecological awareness and sustainability, integrating faith and ecology, and developing courses, retreats, and other programs related to Berry's work.

Because of her interaction with Passionist “Ecologian” Fr. Thomas Berry beginning in the early 1990s, Professor Kathleen O’Gorman was a forerunner in highlighting the centrality of creation for practical theology, pastoral studies, and religious education.  As a result of her association with him, Loyola has in its archives hours of videotapes and pages of writings that are begging to be disseminated to a world in need of the challenge and wisdom that Thomas Berry still has to offer.

The project seeks to

• digitize select Thomas Berry material from Loyola’s Special Collections & Archives through an outsourced film digitization vendor to ensure the quality of the videos to archival standards.

• catalog videos, by Loyola’s Monroe Library staff, into the Louisiana Digital Library for online dissemination.

• engage a film editor to produce videos from the digitized material for classes and retreats.

• develop and disseminate a User’s Guide as a resource for research, lesson plans, and personal growth.

• offer scholarships for graduate students to take LIM’s Religion and Ecology focus area courses.

• create an ad campaign to alert the wider public to these valuable resources and opportunities.

 To contribute to this campaign, please visit giving.loyno.edu/berrylecturefund.