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Why Christianity Is Uncomfortable by Ilia Delio

Why Christianity Is Uncomfortable

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...
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New Introduction of the Center for Christogenesis

Watch this introduction with Ilia Delio about the Center for Christogenesis, a spiritual organization that serves an axial role in our time, bridging faith, science, culture, and community. The Center…

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Zoom Conversation with Ilia Delio: “Re-Enchanting the Earth”

Zoom Conversation with Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD, a Franciscan Sister and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, about her book, Re-Enchanting the Earth: why AI needs…

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Love as the Bridge Between Science and Religion

For the ancients, the study of nature was essential to knowing the real.  We know not simply to navigate but to narrate our lives, to give reason for the hope…

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Return to the Garden

In 2020 the United States went through perhaps one of the most divisive presidential campaigns we ever had. It was often described by people on the left as an effort…

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Marshall McLuhan:  A Prophet of Teilhard’s Vision

The Center for Christogenesis seeks to integrate religion, culture, modern science and evolution in a way that illuminates a divine power of love acting from within toward a future of…

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Insurrection or Evolution:  What is Happening in our Midst?

Last week chaos and anarchy erupted in Washington DC, as protestors scaled the walls and stormed the offices of the U.S. Capitol.  Opposition to the recent election results, fueled by…

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“Faith and Doubt: A Love Story” by Brian D. McLaren

I revered my maternal grandfather. He was one of the kindest, wisest people I’ve ever met. One spring day when I was about seven or eight, we were driving through…

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How Shall We Enter Into 2021?

Dear Friends, We are on the eve of one of the most turbulent, suffering and deadliest years in history. Many people have lost loved ones to the pandemic, other diseases…

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A Christmas Reflection

A Christmas Reflection   Who are you O God?  This dark, weary world is searching for you, waiting for your arrival. Will we recognize you when You come? You who…

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