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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...

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…

Volunteer with Omega Center

By Center for Christogenesis | October 7, 2019

Dear Omega Friends, Change is in the air, both with the season of autumn and here at Omega Center. We just held our first ever livestreaming webinar, our annual conference…

Way of posthuman life could revitalize religious communities

By Ilia Delio | October 3, 2019

Research on posthumanism shows that the autonomous liberal subject is giving way to a new hybridized person, the “posthuman.” How does this affect religious life? In an earlier column I…