9:00-9:30 Coffee and registration, with music by Elizabeth McAnally

9:30-9:45 Welcome: President Judie Wexler and Program Chair Elizabeth Allison

9:45-10:25 “I’m Having Coffee with Pythagoras,” Brian Thomas Swimme

10:25-11:20 Living the New Story, Robert McDermott, moderator

  • “Creating a New Language for a New Story,” Toni Nash
  • “Reinventing the Human, Reinventing Technology,” Sam Mickey
  • “Loving Water across Religions,” Elizabeth McAnally

11:20-11:30 Break

11:30-12:15 “Mantras from Thomas Berry that Inspire and Challenge,” Matthew Fox

12:15-1:20 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Afternoon session, Elizabeth McAnally, moderator

  • “Thomas Berry: Personal Reflections,” Robert McDermott
  • “The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race,” Carl Anthony
  • “The Most Radical Thing a Person Can Think About,” Drew Dellinger
  • Carl Anthony and Drew Dellinger in conversation

2:20-2:30 Break

2:30-3:45 Life Paths of the Great Work, Elizabeth Allison, moderator

  • “It Takes a Universe to Educate a Child,” Steve Snider
  • “Flaring Forth in the Anthropocene,” Osprey Orielle Lake
  • “Dynamizing Functional Cosmology for a Flourishing Future,” Devin O’Dea

3:45-4:30 “Writing a Life Story,” Mary Evelyn Tucker

5:00 Reception