Thresholds: Sally Neaves interviews Anne Curtis

Anne Curtis is a Sister of Mercy of the Americas who has given her life to what she calls “the two feet of justice – direct service and structural change”. In more recent times, this means not just human justice, but Ecological justice. Through integrating the spirituality of ecology into programs, practices and decision-making, Anne hopes humanity will come to know what Teilhard de Chardin called the “breathing together of all things.” After 12 years on the leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy and as a lobbyist in Washington DC, she is now the executive director of Mercy Ecology, whose mission is “to inspire reverence for Earth and to live in harmony with all creation”. Anne’s work is in collaboration with Mercy by the Sea on the Long Island Sound in Madison, Connecticut, and Mercy Farm, in Benson, Vermont.