Ω Spirit
The Center for Christogenesis Online Magazine
Human Potential in an Age of Anxiety
Early Christian writers such as Irenaeus of Lyons (2nd c. AD and Gregory of Nyssa (4th c. AD) were...
‘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...
Christianity, Justice and Ecology in An Age of Crisis
“But ask the animals and they will teach you; the birds of the air and they will tell you; speak...
Social Justice without Cosmic Theology is Blind
Religious disaffiliation has been on the rise since the late twentieth century. The term...
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...
The Ineffable Bond of Love
As I prepare to teach my final classes on Zoom this week, I am grateful for the development of...
Internet Easter
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed human life around the globe. No matter what...
The Pandemic Mirror
The coronavirus has thrown the world into a tailspin. The closure of schools and stores, the...
Hope in a Time of Crisis
The events of recent weeks have thrown the world into a heightened state of volatility. Fear of...
God can emerge in new ways through Teilhard’s ‘troubled worship’
It is almost five years since the inception of Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato...
Praying in Teilhard’s Universe
Thomas of Celano, the first biographer of Saint Francis of Assisi, wrote that Francis did not so...
New Year 2020
Dear friends, Today, on the penultimate day of 2019, I saw a rainbow stretched across the sky in...
A Prayer for Peace
I believe in the unity of all— peoples, animals, plants & planets. All the cosmos is of one...
God and the World in Teilhard
In April 1934, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote to Henri du Lubac, a fellow Jesuit, “I mistrust...
