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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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The Omega Challenge: Immigration, Evolution, and Wholeness

By Ilia Delio | July 29, 2019

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

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The Omega Challenge: Consciousness and personal identity

By Ilia Delio | July 20, 2019

The Omega Challenge: In a recent post Ilia answers a question about consciousness and personal identity in the perspective of human immortality. On your own or as a group we…

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Evolution is our fundamental reality

By Ilia Delio | July 15, 2019

We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role here as well? Well, yes. As co-creators,…

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The Omega Challenge

By Ilia Delio | July 9, 2019

The Omega Challenge: In a recent letter to the Omega community, Ilia challenged us all with questions that center on one big question: Who and What is God? Please read her…

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Thank you and Take the Omega Challenge

By Ilia Delio | July 9, 2019

Dear Friends of the Omega Center I want to extend a deep, heartfelt “thank you” to every person who responded to our June donation drive. Your commitment to the Omega…

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Theology Needs Radical Revisioning

By Ilia Delio | July 5, 2019

In August 2018, the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg boldly went on a school strike to oppose climate change and inspired thousands of youth around the world to do the…

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The Rainbow of Pride

By Ilia Delio | June 10, 2019

This month we celebrate the gift of life in its many colors, which holds great significance for the LGTBQ community. For years, women and men who were not heterosexual had…

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Ilia Delio Changed My Life and Can Change Yours

By Gregory Hansell | June 6, 2019

God works in mysterious ways, and as any reader of Teilhard and Ilia Delio knows, that includes the recommendation algorithms of Amazon.com. It was on that website, in the “Books…

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Love Out of Darkness

By Ilia Delio | May 19, 2019

Question: How do we know if our thinking and doing is coming from the ground of love? I can feel this ground in silence but it is harder in the…

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