Thomas Berry, one of the foremost Christian thinkers to root his philosophy in the Earth, died yesterday at the age of 94. Born to the Appalachian hills, he became a Catholic priest of the Passionist order and then a renowned writer on ecology, cosmology, and religion. He preferred to call himself, not a theologian, or “thinker about God,” but rather a geologian, or “thinker about the Earth.” Read More…