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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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Incarnating The Universe: Matter Matters To God

By Ilia Delio | December 7, 2017

In this blog Ilia Delio expands on Diarmuid O’Murchu’s recent Omega Center contributions on incarnation, and offers her thoughts on the “hidden depth to matter.” (See also Diarmuid O’Murchu’s blog on INCARNATION AS…

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Expanding Our View Of Incarnation

By Diarmuid O’Murchu | November 22, 2017

An audio interview with Diarmuid O’Murchu In this Omega Center interview Brie Stoner engages in conversation with prominent evolutionary thinker and writer Diarmuid O’Murchu, discussing topics from his most recent…

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Incarnation As Embodiment Of Spirit

By Diarmuid O’Murchu | November 6, 2017

Traditionally, the word Incarnation denotes the coming of God into our world in the person and life of Jesus, which happened for the first and only time 2000 years ago.…

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A Reply To Richard Rohr On The Cosmic Christ

By Ilia Delio | October 16, 2017

In this blog Ilia Delio considers recent reflections offered by Richard Rohr on the Cosmic Christ, and provides some additional thoughts. See THE COSMIC CHRIST by Richard Rohr, and REDISCOVERING THE UNIVERSAL…

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Rediscovering The Universal Christ

By Fr. Richard Rohr | October 11, 2017

An audio interview with Fr. Richard Rohr In this interview Brie Stoner engages in conversation with Fr. Richard Rohr, covering a number of topics in a forthcoming book he’s in…

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The Cosmic Christ

By Fr. Richard Rohr | October 4, 2017

The following is used with permission by the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC), first published in Daily Meditations November 5, 2015 Franciscan mysticism has a unique place in the…

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A Response To John Haught’s “A New Cosmic Story”

By Ilia Delio | September 25, 2017

We are story tellers and meaning makers and the stories we tell shape the meaning of our lives. John Haught, a longtime friend and colleague, has been engaged in the area…

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An Interview With John F. Haught

By John F. Haught | September 19, 2017

An audio interview with JOHN F. HAUGHT recorded September 11, 2017 In this audio interview Brie Stoner asks Professor Dr. John Haught to expand on some of his ideas and…

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The New Cosmic Story

By John F. Haught | September 5, 2017

Over the past two centuries scientists have learned that the universe is a story still being told. New scientific awareness of the long cosmic preamble to human history has inspired…

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