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The Great Work of Love: Chaos, Justice, and Divine Evolution

By Ilia Delio | January 28, 2026

The images emerging from Minnesota—multitudes converging in defiance of bitter winter winds, voices rising in collective lament and resistance—continue to command our attention. These are not merely protests; they are manifestations of a deeper truth struggling toward articulation. Thousands brave the elements not simply to mourn Renee Good’s tragic death or to challenge ICE’s authority, but to bear witness to something more fundamental: the inviolable dignity of human beings and the justice that dignity demands. Across the nation, similar gatherings proliferate, revealing to us something essential about our nature and the bonds that constitute our shared humanity. The physicist David Bohm perceived this truth with clarity: “As human beings and societies we seem separate, but in our roots, we are...

Christophany Groups – St. Scholastica Monastery, MN

By Center for Christogenesis | November 17, 2021

When the pandemic closed our doors at the Center to in-person gatherings in March of 2020, one of the first things we did was to start a Christophany group which…

Session 6: Common Ground and Social Change

By Center for Christogenesis | November 14, 2021

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…

Now is the Time to Change

By Ilia Delio | November 11, 2021

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…

Session 5: At-One-Ment?

By Ridgeway Addison | November 5, 2021

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…

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

By Ridgeway Addison | October 28, 2021

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…

Session 3: Life’s “Aliveness”

By Ridgeway Addison | October 21, 2021

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…

Session 2: Concerning the Search—Spirituality and Science

By Ridgeway Addison | October 14, 2021

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…

From the Christophany Groups – Australia and New Zealand

By Center for Christogenesis | October 12, 2021

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…

Community Sharing: Seeing the World from Another Center

By Center for Christogenesis | October 12, 2021

“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…