Essays by Emily DeMoor

Dr. Emily DeMoor wears many hats. She serves as the Director of Christophany Groups for the Center for Christogenesis. She also serves as an educational consultant with Human Energy and as Director of the Caritas Center at Brescia University in Kentucky. With a Master of Arts in Musicology, a Master of Pastoral Studies with a focus on Religion and Ecology, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on environmental education, Emily brings a rich, multidisciplinary approach to her work.

Emily has taught at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. As a past Director of Liturgy and Music in both campus ministry and parish settings, Emily has experience in Catholic, ecumenical, and interfaith worship. Through her teaching, retreats, publications, and presentations, she has reached national and international audiences. Her current research interests include ecotheology, process theology, intersubjectivity and the noosphere, and integrating the noosphere into K-12 and university curricula and pedagogy.

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Dancing Into the Future

I had the pleasure of meeting up with my grown son on New Year’s Day, and we talked about our approaches to the New Year. My son shared that he…

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Seeing with Two Pairs of Eyes

“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf,” writes Annie Dillard.[1] This simple…

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Seeing Our Way Forward Through the Unifying Lens of Love

It’s a cold and foggy morning in western Kentucky. The colors are muted, and outlines of shapes and forms are increasingly blurred as you look towards the distance to a…

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A Deep Dive into Cosmotheandrism

In a previous post, I explored the idea of a cosmotheandric language of belonging and resolved that “without the wild energy of Ruach our religious endeavors are cut off from…

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A Cosmotheandric Language of Belonging

It is no secret that I love England and greatly look forward to my next visit, whenever that may be.  I am often charmed by the names of English towns…

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Tomatillos, Radical Openness and Love

This summer we decided to grow tomatillos in our garden; something we had not done before, although I had seen volunteer tomatillos growing by a riverbank years ago and was…