Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was an American cultural historian, religious scholar, cosmologist, leading thinker in the de Chardinian tradition, and one of the most provocative ecological thinkers of the 20th century. He analyzed in depth the nature of the alienation of Western culture and spirituality from the Earth. In order for us to succeed as individuals and as a species, Berry argued, we must understand the story of the universe. Together with cosmologist Brian Swimme, Berry developed a “new story” evolutionary cosmology,…