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Overcoming Existential Dread: Teilhard de Chardin’s Spirituality of Zest

In an era marked by confusion, divisiveness, and existential anxiety, the notion of zest for life may feel distant or even unattainable. Nevertheless, the writings of scientist and mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offer a vision that seeks to renew this zest by linking it fundamentally to spirituality, science, and human evolution. Teilhard’s work invites us to reimagine religion—not as a dry or rigid system of dogmas, but as the very fuel that animates life with purpose, passion, and vitality. What is the Zest for Life? In many of his essays, Teilhard wrote about zest as a vital and dynamic force, something akin to the energy of existence itself. For him, zest is not mere enthusiasm or momentary excitement; it is a deep and...
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[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

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

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

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

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?

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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Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

“God never promised us that we would not suffer.”  Those words struck a painful, but truthful, chord in me when a friend uttered them as we stood talking at the…

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Love In An Untrustful Milieu

One of Teilhard de Chardin’s most appealing works, at least to this author, was The Divine Milieu, a kind of modern reformulation of the classical mystical journey from purgation to…

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Love In An Age Of Distrust

In the 1960s Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, predicted that computing power would double every two years, increasing evolution at an exponential rate.   Technology has radically changed our lives…

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Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”

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