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From Original Sin to Original Love

Christians worldwide observe Lent as a season of fasting, prayer, and spiritual return to God. These six weeks create space for self-reflection, good works, and renewed appreciation of God’s grace. Beginning with the ritual of ashes—reminding us that we are dust and to dust we shall return—Lent invites spiritual renewal as we lament our transgressions. The doctrine of original sin developed during the 3rd century in Irenaeus of Lyons’ struggle against Gnosticism and was significantly shaped by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), who first used the phrase “original sin.” Augustine’s influential teaching emphasized that humanity inherited a “stain of sin” from Adam’s disobedience, creating a state of moral corruption requiring Christ’s redemption. While the concept of original sin is not...
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Praying in Teilhard’s Universe

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…

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New Year 2020

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…

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

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…

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God and the World in Teilhard

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…

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Volunteer with Omega Center

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…

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Way of posthuman life could revitalize religious communities

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…

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

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

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

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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