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Endowed with Wonder: Heschel on Science and Religion

According to Hebrew Bible scholar Abraham Heschel, there is embedded within each of us a natural proclivity to wonder, a sense of “unmitigated innate surprise.”[1] A sense of wonder is constitutive of who we are as humans. Wonder, for Heschel, is not merely an emotion, but an existential experience, a fundamental orientation to the world. All religious awareness and insight are rooted in wonder.  One of the principal responsibilities of religion, therefore, is to fight against the anesthetizing effects of becoming "too familiar" with life and reality, and to instill in us a sense of perpetual surprise, a willingness to encounter the world again and again as if for the first time.[2] In this way, religion has nothing to fear from science. The...
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Internet Easter

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed human life around the globe. No matter what country, culture, language, gender or religious tradition, everyone is affected by this crisis. Social distancing and…

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Letter from Ilia

Dear Friends of the Omega Center, Thank you for reading the New Creation posts on our website and to those who have responded—a big thank you. Some of the responses…

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The Pandemic Mirror

The coronavirus has thrown the world into a tailspin. The closure of schools and stores, the dramatic spike in unemployment, the precipitous fall of the stock market and talk of…

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Dear God

Dear God, These are very strange times, as we hover between a virus pandemic and an economic recession. The scare of COVID-19 has pervaded the entire globe. People fear for…

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Integrating the Inner World

“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung   The Omega Center’s second annual conference, “Love at the Heart of the Cosmos: Living in Relational Wholeness,” treated attendees…

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Hope in a Time of Crisis

The events of recent weeks have thrown the world into a heightened state of volatility. Fear of the Coronavirus has created global unrest, while a vaccine for the virus eludes…

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A Lenten Invitation

God of Love, open our hearts on this Lenten journey to know that death is part of life, that life seeks more life, and that the fullness of life is…

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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 Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” and, unfortunately, nothing has changed with regard to global warming.…

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Omega Center Conference Slides

Click on the slides below to view our conference presenters’ slides:   Does AI Need Religion? Exploring Teilhard’s Noosphere by Ilia Delio + Inside Our Awakening Universe The New Cosmic…

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Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”

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