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Returning Religion to Evolution

During my recent webinar on "Returning Religion to the Prophetic," a participant raised a question about prophetic action: Should we not stand with the marginalized and oppressed, calling out injustices in the name of true justice? While this concern is undoubtedly important, I believe that focusing solely on social justice might cause us to overlook the broader implications of evolution and its dynamic impetus. One might ask, "What does evolution have to do with social justice?" The answer is, in a sense, everything. Social justice is fundamentally about fostering right relationships, and evolution can be understood as the progressive emergence of increasingly complex relationships. To develop truly just relationships, we must comprehend evolution beyond its mere biological mechanisms.  That is, we...
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Session 6: Common Ground and Social Change

Hello again, Course Participants. This week we will share our final live seminar session for this Howard Thurman course with the Center for Christogenesis. One book, even Thurman’s Search for…

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Now is the Time to Change

The rapid changes of our modern world, kindled by the meteoric rise of computer technology, has created a needed space for spirituality. The fast-paced, breathless amount of information coming across…

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Session 5: At-One-Ment?

Hello again, everyone, Thanks to each of you who participated in our most recent class session. This past week we focused on Thurman’s concern for the “U” and “R” words…

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Session 4: Enter Religion – Visions, Dreams, and Wounds

Greetings again, everyone. This week we moved into–and through–the third chapter of Howard Thurman’s Search for Common Ground book. During our live seminar session we reviewed Thurman’s reflection on and…

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Session 3: Life’s “Aliveness”

Hello again, course participants. And welcome to Week 3 of our Thurman course! We spent most of our first week together “getting to know”– one another, the course structure and…

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Session 2: Concerning the Search—Spirituality and Science

Hello again, course participants. And welcome to Week 2 of our course! It was a pleasure to see and meet all of you during our initial live seminar session. Thank…

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From the Christophany Groups – Australia and New Zealand

 Our reflections on writings from Teilhard and those also who have written about his writings, has steadily opened my mind and heart to a new way of being. Most important…

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Community Sharing: Seeing the World from Another Center

“I am glad you pointed out the difference between Teilhard’s mystical cosmological based on our new understanding of a dynamic and evolving universe and that of the early mystics who’s…

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Session 1: Concerning the Search—Spirituality and Science

Greetings, course participants—and Welcome! I have not met any of you yet. But I have been thinking about you and praying for you ever since I began creating this Howard…

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Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”

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