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Why Christianity Is Uncomfortable by Ilia Delio

Why Christianity Is Uncomfortable

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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From the Ritiro Omega Discussion Group

Theistic Evolution: A New Religious Story by Sr. Paula Scraba, OSF and the Allegany Franciscan Sisters from the Ritiro Omega Group The discussion opened around the question, “How can the…

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Crum Creek Visitation

I recently encountered a great blue heron while teaching my Swarthmore College class, Religion and Ecology.  I was conducting a three-hour class meeting in the Crum Woods, the scenic watershed…

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The Resurrection and the beginning of a new earth

Faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ expresses the belief that “Love is strong as death” (Song 8:6). Resurrection is the greater strength of love in the face of death.…

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Dead and Alive

He is not here! But we are… Tragedy and Beauty Sorrow and Mystery Innocent lives killed in the midst of God’s glory. What kind of God is this Who rises…

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An Easter Reflection on Suffering, Death, and Resurrection 

There is no compassion without suffering, no transformation without death. No growth without decay, no development without loss, no complexity without danger. Imagine how it feels for a loving God…

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SUFFERING AND DEATH:  A REFLECTION

Each day we awake to a new world of struggle.The abuse crisis of the Catholic Church continues unabated, children and refugees are held captive in the U.S. borderland camps, racial…

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To Die on the Day of Resurrection

One year before Teilhard de Chardin died, his nephew heard Teilhard say that, “I should like to die on the day of Resurrection.” A year later, on April 10th, 1955…

Second Annual Omega Center Conference

Second Annual Omega Center Conference

Love at the Heart of the Cosmos: Living in Relational Wholeness   Commonwealth Chateau at SugarLoaf Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA December 6th – 8th, 2019 Check-in begins Friday, December…

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Authentic religion “Within me and between me and thee”

Ours in the West is largely a secularized society. However, especially after 9/11, we have become much more aware of the influence of religion—mostly bad in many people’s eyes. This,…

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