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Why Christianity Is Uncomfortable by Ilia Delio

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...
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Warming, Warming, Gone!   Who Will Survive Climate Change?

By Ilia Delio | September 24, 2019

Last week the prophet of the green movement, Greta Thunberg, landed in the U.S. after traveling by boat on the high seas to avoid the high carbon footprint of air…

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Religious life in a post-human age

By Ilia Delio | September 23, 2019

I recently returned from a retreat at San Alfonso Retreat House in Long Branch, New Jersey, where 110 sisters gathered each day for liturgy, prayer and presentation. The sisters were…

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“Birth of a Dancing Star” Book Review on NCR

By Center for Christogenesis | September 19, 2019

Sr. Ilia Delio’s ‘Birth of a Dancing Star’ memoir is about discovering God in the chaos of life by Nichole Carrubba for NCR Birth of a Dancing Star, Franciscan Sr.…

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The Narrow Door

By Br. Ivan Nicoletto | September 3, 2019

Twenty-First Sunday OT/C 2019 Isaiah 66:18-21; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30 Responding to a believer eager for salvation, Jesus answers: “Strive to enter through the narrow door,” choose to actively…

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The Future of Tradition

By Ilia Delio | September 3, 2019

Q: How do we hold the value of Religion’s past yet create communities of deeper Spirituality. Ilia: Our question for this week is a good one. Many people fear the…

Wholeness Webinar with Ilia Delio

Webinar: Seeking Wholeness in an Age of Fragments

By Center for Christogenesis | August 28, 2019

Join us for upcoming webinar: Seeking Wholeness in an Age of Fragments September 28th, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET The news distracts us from our true reality; yet, nature…

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The Omega Challenge: On Sex, Gender and Personhood

By Ilia Delio | August 20, 2019

The Omega Challenge: In a recent post, Ilia answers questions about Sex, Gender and Personhood. On your own or as a group we invite you to reflect on the following…

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On Teilhard and “Teilhard’s Fire” (a song)

By Don Viney | August 12, 2019

Listen to “Teilhard’s Fire” by clicking on the player below   Few life stories can match that of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) for drama, passion, and intellectual ferment. The…

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An Omega Conference Invitation

By Ilia Delio | July 31, 2019

Dear Friends of the Omega Center, We are in the mist of summer, but time is an arrow that points to the future. Hence, we are now preparing for our…

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