Maryknoll Sisters Institute for One Earth Community

Who We Are

The Maryknoll Sisters Center for One Earth Community is a platform for welcoming individuals and communities to immerse themselves in evolving religious paradigms, scientific discoveries and transformational initiatives resulting in a deeper commitment to contribute to the flourishing of the whole Earth Community. Collaboratively designed programs such as virtual conferences, online webinars, and video programs enable greater accessibility. Resources created by other institutes and movements that contribute to creating the coherence needed to work together and amplify our transformative efforts will be shared through various mediums.

Our Mission

Our evolving consciousness of the cry of the earth and cry of the poor compels Maryknoll Sisters to partner with all seeking to work for justice and the thriving of all life in this one Earth Community. Trusting in the power of God to do new things, our institute seeks to explore and engage evolving paradigms and convergent efforts which sustain healing and liberating change in our world.

Programs for 2025

Important Information
Cost of the Program

There will be no registration fee required to participate in our programs.

However, voluntary donations will be gratefully accepted to support participation in our programs.

All programs are virtual only.

Focus of the Spring Mini-Course

A Trinity of Insight

John F. Haught, PhD

The Mystic of Evolutionary Depth – The Good of Deep Time and Future Fire

Haught invites us to see the universe not as complete, but as still becoming—a sacred drama unfolding over billions of years. He introduces a theology that embraces evolution as the medium through which God’s creative love is expressed. Haught sees God as the depth dimension of reality, the future horizon drawing creation forward in love.

• Key Insight: God is not the designer behind the blueprint, but the Divine Future—the source of hope and meaning in an evolving cosmos.
• Contribution: A compelling synthesis of faith and science, grounding Christian hope in the ever-expanding story of cosmic emergence.

John F. Haught, PhD

May 20, 2025, 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm (EST)

May 27, 2025, 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm (EST)

June 3, 2025, 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm (EST)

June 10, 2025 7:00 pm- 8:30 pm (EST)

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Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ

The Prophet of Justice and Sacred Earth – The Theologian of Earth, Justice, and the Living God

Johnson speaks with the voice of compassionate resistance—resisting oppressive God-language, resisting environmental degradation, resisting the silencing of the Earth and her creatures. Her theology is both scholarly and prophetic, urging us to recover the inclusive mystery of God and to embrace creation as kin.

• Key Insight: God is not male, and God’s Spirit breathes through all of life—from the cry of the poor to the song of the whale.
• Contribution: A revolutionary eco-feminist theology that links justice for the Earth with justice for women and the marginalized, reclaiming God as the Giver of Life to all beings.

Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ

June 19, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST)

June 20, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST)

June 21, 2025, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST)

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Ilia Delio, OSF

The Visionary of Consciousness and Communion – The Mystic of Evolution, Consciousness, and Divine Love

Ilia Delio sees the universe as God in the act of becoming. Steeped in Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary mysticism, she reads the cosmos as a sacred web of quantum entanglement, a dance of energy and matter where everything is interrelated. Her God is not distant but dynamically present, breathing through the ever-new.

• Key Insight: God is Love at the heart of matter, the deep connectivity of all things, calling us into communion and creativity.
• Contribution: A bold reimagining of theology for the age of technology and planetary consciousness, where spiritual evolution meets digital emergence.

Ilia Delio, OSF

July 1, 2025 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm (EST)

July 2, 2025 7:00 pm- 9:00 pm (EST)

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Together: A Trinity of Insight

• Haught gives us the cosmic narrative—a story in motion, full of divine anticipation.
• Johnson gives us the ethical and ecological compass—a call to love with justice, to honor Earth and the oppressed.
• Delio gives us the spiritual imagination—a vision where God pulses through every atom, calling us toward the Omega of wholeness.

Together, the three theologians gift us with a living, relational, evolutionary theology—one that suffers with the Earth, honors the cosmos, and leans into the Lure of Tomorrow held in God’s unfolding grace.

Focus of Summer Mini-Course

Unmasking Racism, Awakening Hope

We are living in an age of deep reckoning—a time when the soul of society strains beneath centuries of injustice, and yet, within that struggle, the seeds of transformation stir. In this course, we dare to listen, to learn, and to rise.

Anchored in two powerful texts—

Dan Horan

July 8, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

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Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas

July 15, 2025 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

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Dan Horan’s

A White Catholic’s Guide to Racism and Privilege (2nd edition)

and

Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas’s

Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter

We journey together through the tangled roots of systemic racism and the living hope that justice can be born anew.

Dan Horan invites readers, especially White Catholics, into the uncomfortable yet essential work of self-examination. His guide is not merely educational—it is pastoral, spiritual, and deeply personal. In a time when conversations about privilege are too often met with defensiveness or denial, Horan offers a compassionate yet unflinching mirror. His words challenge the silence of the pews and call forth the prophetic voice that must rise in solidarity.

Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, with the clarity of a theologian and the fire of a prophet, compels us to imagine a future grounded in resurrection hope. Her book is a cry from the heart of the Black experience and a theological insistence that the crucifixion of Black lives in America is not God’s will. Through her lens, we encounter a faith that refuses to be complicit and a vision that insists Black lives must matter—not only in the streets but in the sacred heart of our shared humanity.

Together, these texts serve as our compass and our call. At this crossroads of moral urgency and divine possibility, we are invited to interrogate history, confront our complicity, and cultivate a hope that is not passive but powerful—resurrection hope.

This course is not just academic; it is spiritual formation. It is an invitation to walk the path of justice, to listen deeply, to speak truth, and to act with courage. The work is not easy. But it is holy. And it needs to begin now.

Focus of the Fall Mini-Course

The Sacred Call to Communion

In a time marked by division and disconnection, two voices rise to remind us of the sacred call to communion:

Prof. Marcus Mescher

Sept. 14, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Sept. 17, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Oct. 01, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Oct. 08, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

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Marcus Mescher

In The Ethics of Encounter:

Christian Neighbor Love as a Practice of Solidarity

and

Paul Schutz

In The Theology of Flourishing: The Fullness of Life for All Creation 

Mescher, calls us to radical hospitality, to meet the Other not with suspicion but sacred recognition. He outlines an ethic rooted in solidarity, mercy, and mutual transformation—where encounter becomes the soil of justice. He invites us into an ethic of encounter—where solidarity, compassion, and mutual transformation are not idealistic dreams, but necessary practices.

Schutz, writing into the hope of what might yet be, envisions thriving not as personal gain but as communal flourishing, a theological reclamation of abundance and belonging in an age marked by fragmentation. He invites us to reimagine what it means to live well with and for others in communities where everyone has the chance to grow, to heal, and to live fully. He reframes thriving as a theological path—one grounded in justice, community, and the abundant life Jesus spoke of. His theology reminds us that justice and joy are not separate—that we are made to thrive together.

Together, these works converge at a profound intersection: the conviction that the sacred lives in relationship, that to thrive is to encounter, and that a just world begins wherever we choose to see the divine in one another. These books point us toward a faith that is not passive or private, but embodied and communal. They remind us that to encounter one another with love is to participate in God’s dream for the world. And to thrive—as Scripture teaches—is to seek the good of our neighbors, the healing of creation, and the coming of God’s Kingdom, here and now.

Prof. Paul Schutz

Oct 15, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Oct 22, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Oct 29, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Nov 05, 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

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