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Mission for an Evolutionary Christianity

By Ilia Delio | October 14, 2025
We are living through tumultuous times. Political polarization intensifies, violence against vulnerable populations escalates, and the foundational principles of human dignity face erosion. For many, the cognitive dissonance between professed values and lived reality has become unbearable. How do we reconcile claims of "In God we trust" with systematic abandonment of the most vulnerable? How do communities of faith respond when institutions weaponize religious language to justify harm? Yet amid this darkness, I find inspiration in resistance movements and communities willing to risk everything for justice. Their commitment signals something essential: the possibility of authentic faith engaging real-world crises. The question facing Christianity today is not whether to engage the world's struggles but how to do so in ways that...
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Teaching Teilhardian Hope In Hong Kong

By Marty Schmidt | May 15, 2017

Over recent weeks we have posted a three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault entitled “Teilhard for Troubled Times.” The following is a response and expansion upon some of the themes raised in that…

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 2)

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 2)

By Ilia Delio | May 6, 2017

Download a copy of Ilia Delio’s PowerPoint presentation used at her event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on May 6, 2017. Download PDF

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 1)

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 1)

By Ilia Delio | May 5, 2017

Download a copy of Ilia Delio’s PowerPoint presentation used at her event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on May 5, 2017. Download PDF

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Click Here To Ask Your Questions

By Center for Christogenesis | May 3, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We hope you will join the conversation by submitting your reflections and questions below, via the “Leave a Reply” comment box on this page.  What would you like to ask Ilia? How…

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Teilhard For Troubled Times – Part 3

By Cynthia Bourgeault | May 2, 2017

Over recent weeks we have been posting a three-part blog series by Cynthia Bourgeault on the topic of “Teilhard for Troubled Times.” Here is the third and final installment. To read earlier posts go…

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Teilhard For Troubled Times – Part 2

By Cynthia Bourgeault | April 17, 2017

Over the course of the following weeks we will be posting three related blogs by Cynthia Bourgeault on the topic of “Teilhard for Troubled Times.” Here is the second installment. Part 1 can be found…

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Teilhard For Troubled Times – Part 1

By Cynthia Bourgeault | April 3, 2017

Over the course of the following weeks we will be posting three related blogs by Cynthia Bourgeault on the topic of “Teilhard for Troubled Times.” Here is the first installment. Part 1 – Deep…

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Reading For An Evolutionary Age: An Omega Lectio Divina

By Ilia Delio | March 24, 2017

The Omega Center engages new ideas on bridging science and religion primarily through the lens of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin but through other thinkers as well. Teilhard spent years in…

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Do We Make A Difference To God?

By Ilia Delio | March 3, 2017

There are two questions that occupy my thoughts and I hope I can tie them together here.   The first is the question of ethics or, better yet, why we have…

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