Returning Religion to Evolution
The Boundless Body Of Christ
Eat and drink my body that began growing since the Big Birth some fourteen billion years ago. Unwinding, dramatic story, shining now in me as all-embracing and self-giving love. I…
Church As an evolving life-system: bottom-up as well as top-down organization
“Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church” (Mt. 18:16). Throughout most of its long institutional history, the Roman Catholic Church has prided itself on the…
Reconstructing Wholeness
Transgender experiences are teaching us a great deal when we have learning hearts. I deeply appreciate the reality that our transgender siblings in the human family share about being “assigned”…
Schism or Evolution?
Something momentous is happening in our midst. The concerted efforts to oust Pope Francis are deeply tied to the perverted crisis of abuse embedded in ecclesiastical power structures. While some…
Death In The Church: Is New Life Ahead?
The recent disclosure of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the extent of depravity reported in the news is symptomatic of a Church in crisis. It is no longer…
Teilhard de Chardin and the Three Faces of God
I have been invited to reflect here on my experience at Ilia Delio’s Omega Center Conference in Kansas City in July of 2018. I arrived there eager to thank Ilia…
Omega Conference: Towards a planetary faith
I just returned from a wonderful five-day retreat at San Alfonso Retreat House in Long Branch New Jersey. It is always a special time of the year because it is…