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Love and Political Order: The Evolutionary Path to Unity

We live in an age of fragmentation. Politically, we witness the hardening of tribal identities and nationalist divisions. Ecologically, we confront a world torn between exploitation and preservation. Socially, we experience the paradox of unprecedented connectivity coupled with profound isolation. Spiritually, many have lost confidence in transcendent meaning or are unsure anymore of what this implies for us. In such a moment, the vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offers a radical counter-narrative: that the universe itself is structured by love, that consciousness emerges through love, and that our fractured world can be healed only through a renewed understanding of love as the fundamental energy of existence. Teilhard de Chardin spent his life wrestling with a central theological-scientific question: How...
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Co-Creating a New America: Getting Beyond Racism by Remaking Religion

Introduction The death of George Floyd has sparked public outrage at the heartless show of police brutality, causing the untimely death of an innocent man. Derek Chauvin, the white Minnesota…

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Racism and the American Dream

For the past three months we have been quarantined due to a deadly Coronavirus; last week, a new virus was disclosed, the persistent virus of racism. The death of George…

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The Ineffable Bond of Love

As I prepare to teach my final classes on Zoom this week, I am grateful for the development of computer technology and its ability to facilitate personal communication. Without the…

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The 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic:  What Would Teilhard Say?

By now the world has grown accustomed to the fact that the COVID-19 virus has made its way around the globe. Thanks to the internet and the constant news feeds,…

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“Do not be Afraid”

Christ is Risen from the dead! And who did Christ first appear to upon rising from the dead, according to Matthew? Not to Peter or any of the twelve apostles…

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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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