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Returning Religion to Evolution

During my recent webinar on "Returning Religion to the Prophetic," a participant raised a question about prophetic action: Should we not stand with the marginalized and oppressed, calling out injustices in the name of true justice? While this concern is undoubtedly important, I believe that focusing solely on social justice might cause us to overlook the broader implications of evolution and its dynamic impetus. One might ask, "What does evolution have to do with social justice?" The answer is, in a sense, everything. Social justice is fundamentally about fostering right relationships, and evolution can be understood as the progressive emergence of increasingly complex relationships. To develop truly just relationships, we must comprehend evolution beyond its mere biological mechanisms.  That is, we...
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Boundaries, Bark, And Incarnation

The boundaries are gone.  We may not have all realized it yet, but they’ve dissolved right in front of us.  Certainly, many of us—maybe most of us—are playing as if…

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Why We Need To Talk About Christianity As Planetary Faith

Several weeks ago I met my first real Teilhard opponent.  She was a religion scholar from Indiana University and was quite adamant that Teilhard was a naïve optimist with a…

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Easter Message: Faith-Shaking Resurrection

The celebration of Easter marks the most incredible event in this history of the cosmos summed up in a brief acclamation: “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come…

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A Hunger For Wholeness

The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Ilia Delio’s forthcoming book A Hunger for Wholeness: Soul, Space, and Transcendence, available April 2, 2018. We have the capacity to…

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Creating Harmony Between Biblical Faith And Science

An audio interview with Deborah Haarsma In this Omega Center interview Brie Stoner invites BioLogos President Deborah Haarsma to share  her work, perspectives, and passion on a range of topics,…

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Beyond Patriarchy And Gender: Towards Personhood

I was raised in a matriarchal household by a Sicilian mother who was a staunch feminist long before the term was in vogue.  I was taught from an early age…

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Towards Omega: Jet Skiing Or Scuba Diving?

One of the most significant social media platforms in our age is Facebook.  One can easily spend a few hours, surfing through the various posts, YouTube videos, and various interest…

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Beyond The Surface Level

In this Omega Center interview Brie Stoner invites Edwin Olson to share the interests and influences that lead him to write his most recent book, entitled And God Created Wholeness:…

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Finding Wholeness Deep Within

The life of our cells depends upon their connection to the behavior of the small particles in our atoms called quanta. At that invisible level, particles like electrons can do…

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Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”

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