Ilia Delio
The Center for Christogenesis Online Magazine
‘Fratelli Tutti’: Papal dreams or Vatican diversion?
On Oct. 3, the feast of the transitus of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis signed his new...
Christogenesis By Any Other Name?
The new name for our Center has caused some concern among our followers; hence, I thought it best...
Why the “Center for Christogenesis”?
The Omega Center has been in search of a new name for several months. Recently, we decided that...
Social Justice without Cosmic Theology is Blind
Religious disaffiliation has been on the rise since the late twentieth century. The term...
Understanding the Christic in an Open Universe
Let me begin this essay with an anecdote. The other day I was listening to Catholic Mass online –...
Christic Center
Greetings and peace! In my last blog I indicated that a new name for the Omega Center was on the...
An interview with Ilia Delio: Grounding God in Evolution
An interview with Ilia Delio on the “Bible for Normal People” podcast: Grounding God in Evolution In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Pete and Jared talk with Ilia Delio about the relationship...
Gratitude and Naming the Future
Dear Friends of the Omega Center, First, I want to acknowledge those who responded to my...
What Doors Can Open in a State of Concussion?
Dear Friends of the Omega Center, Several weeks ago, right before our June ZOOM conference, I had...
Co-Creating a New America: Getting Beyond Racism by Remaking Religion
Introduction The death of George Floyd has sparked public outrage at the heartless show of police...
Racism and the American Dream
For the past three months we have been quarantined due to a deadly Coronavirus; last week, a new...
Church and New Creation
Q: “I am not exactly sure as to your meaning of church. Is it as it has been in the past and still...
Church of the Planet
Q: Throughout Scripture its always a remnant which, by grace, “get” what God is up to in any...
The Ineffable Bond of Love
As I prepare to teach my final classes on Zoom this week, I am grateful for the development of...
The 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic: What Would Teilhard Say?
By now the world has grown accustomed to the fact that the COVID-19 virus has made its way around...
Ilia Delio, OSF is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University, and is the author of seventeen books including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods) which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009, first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christwon a third place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Her most recent book “A Hunger for Wholeness” was published in 2018.
What is God Today?
What is God Today? is an Center for Christogenesis video series featuring interviews with Ilia Delio on the meaning of the divine in the 21st century and what God is doing in our midst. Watch the Series
