Ilia Delio
The Center for Christogenesis Online Magazine
Change is Costly: The Power of Sanctity
Yesterday we celebrated the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi. The world knows him as the patron...
Out of Control but Vital to God
One of my favorite passages of Scripture is the opening lines on Genesis: “In the beginning God...
Can the Earth be Healed? Insights from Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
Can the Earth be Healed? Insights from Teilhard de Chardin, SJ Closing address to the Laudato Si’ and the U.S. Catholic Church Conference by Ilia Delio This closing address considers Catholic spiritual and theological...
The Art of Un-Doing
It is now August, and a new academic year will soon begin across colleges and universities. Summer...
An Incarnate Universe
Dear Friends of the Center, In June we launched a successful fundraising drive that exceeded our...
Can the Earth be Healed? Insights from Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
Closing address of the “Laudato Si’ and the U.S. Catholic Church” conference by...
Econoeisis: A New Contemplative Paradigm
As we linger through the summer months with a blast of heat waves across the nation and a rise in...
New Wine Needs New Wineskins
The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops recently concluded their annual meeting by...
Hope for the Future
Dear Friends, As I wind down another semester of teaching, I cannot help but reflect on the...
A Short Reflection on the Feast of the Ascension
When I was a child, I celebrated the feast of the Ascension by imagining Jesus like a space rocket...
Finding Our Way into A New World
As many of you know by now, my bike accident last summer yielded a very challenging concussion and...
Justice for George
Lord, We thank you for bringing justice to light, To know that every life is Your life, Your...
Co-Reactors or Co-Creators? Christic Life in an Unfinished Universe
We are now in the third week of Easter and, while joy should fill the air, the persistent COVID...
Easter and the Power of Love
Christ is Risen! Death and darkness no longer have power over us—but we must make a...
Pain and New Creation
Image: Marc Chagall, White Crucifixion,1938 We are entering into Holy Week, the final days...
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
