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Mission for an Evolutionary Christianity

By Ilia Delio | October 14, 2025

We are living through tumultuous times. Political polarization intensifies, violence against vulnerable populations escalates, and the foundational principles of human dignity face erosion. For many, the cognitive dissonance between professed values and lived reality has become unbearable. How do we reconcile claims of "In God we trust" with systematic abandonment of the most vulnerable? How do communities of faith respond when institutions weaponize religious language to justify harm? Yet amid this darkness, I find inspiration in resistance movements and communities willing to risk everything for justice. Their commitment signals something essential: the possibility of authentic faith engaging real-world crises. The question facing Christianity today is not whether to engage the world's struggles but how to do so in ways that...

Hope in a Time of Crisis

By Ilia Delio | March 9, 2020

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…

A Lenten Invitation

By Ilia Delio | February 25, 2020

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…

God can emerge in new ways through Teilhard’s ‘troubled worship’

By Ilia Delio | February 12, 2020

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.…

Omega Center Conference Slides

By Center for Christogenesis | January 21, 2020

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…

Ritiro Omega Discussion Group: The Cosmic Christ and Revolution

By Sr Paula Scraba | January 15, 2020

The Ritiro Omega Discussion Group met in December, 2019 to reflect on the blog by Sr. Ilia Delio from September 30, 2019 The Cosmic Christ and Revolution and Posted Comments.…

Praying in Teilhard’s Universe

By Ilia Delio | January 14, 2020

Thomas of Celano, the first biographer of Saint Francis of Assisi, wrote that Francis did not so much pray as he became a “living prayer.” I think the same could…

New Year 2020

By Ilia Delio | December 31, 2019

Dear friends, Today, on the penultimate day of 2019, I saw a rainbow stretched across the sky in a spectrum of light. A rainbow symbolizes a bridge between the present…

Interview: Uncovering New Ideas and Truths by Integrating Science and Religion

By Ilia Delio | November 24, 2019

In this wide ranging and fascinating interview with Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, Ilia first shares her background and how she developed an interest in…

God and the World in Teilhard

By Don Viney | October 11, 2019

In April 1934, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote to Henri du Lubac, a fellow Jesuit, “I mistrust metaphysics (in the usual sense of the word), because I smell a geometry…