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Why Christianity Is Uncomfortable

By Ilia Delio

In a recent conversation with a colleague, I was made aware that children born from 2023 onward will be AI children. They will never have known a world without being embedded in networks of artificial intelligence. They are the vanguard of what is now called “Generation AI.” Because they are entering a digitized world, they are already primed to think differently about everything, including personal identity, religion, and spirituality. Posthumanism is a term used to describe the new hyperpersonal person who lives in the ongoing fluid spaces of information. Posthuman identity is interstitial and persistently creative. Online presence and biological existence form a seamless flow of information. My own experience of posthumans has been teaching undergraduates born between 2004 and...

Co-Reactors or Co-Creators? Christic Life in an Unfinished Universe

By Ilia Delio | April 19, 2021

We are now in the third week of Easter and, while joy should fill the air, the persistent COVID pandemic, multiple random gun shootings, and the tragic injustice of…

Anniversary of Teilhard de Chardin’s Death

By Center for Christogenesis | April 10, 2021

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Teilhard de Chardin Today we commemorate the anniversary of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s death. He…

Community Sharing: How to Raise Spiritual Awareness of God’s Love Within

By Center for Christogenesis | April 9, 2021

This morning on the internet I came across your sweet Easter message. I feel there are many actions both in terms of faith and politics to confront gross inequities and…

Dust Unto Dust in the Ocean Froth

By Ceire Kealty | April 6, 2021

A kelp forest, hidden away in the Atlantic waters, boasts a fading form— an octopus, pale and pearled from the wear of her existence. She flutters with the waves, her…

Easter and the Power of Love

By Ilia Delio | April 4, 2021

Christ is Risen! Death and darkness no longer have power over us—but we must make a choice—shall we remain dead and in darkness, or shall we choose life? In Christ,…

Pain and New Creation

By Ilia Delio | March 30, 2021

Image: Marc Chagall, White Crucifixion,1938 We are entering into Holy Week, the final days of Jesus’ life, filled with darkness, pain, misunderstanding and rejection. We are familiar with the…

Thank Goodness, God is Not in Control!

By Thomas Oord | March 18, 2021

It’s common for people who believe in God to respond to suffering, confusion, or evil by saying, “All I know is that God is in control!” To the ears of…

Transhumanism or Ultrahumanism?

By Robert Nicastro | March 8, 2021

Transhumanism or Ultrahumanism? Q: Can you explain the problem, as you see it, with the movement towards the transhuman AI vs. the transhuman Christic. I I see this as…

Return to God and God will Return to You

By Ilia Delio | February 22, 2021

When I was growing up In New Jersey, Lent was a serious time of the year when fasting and acts of penance were required of the faithful. Each year, giving…