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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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Kenotic Love And True Personhood: A Recorded Conversation

Audio recording with Ilia Delio and Cynthia Bourgeault True love is fecundity, it’s generation, it’s outward moving — and at the same time it’s receptivity — we make space for…

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The Cosmic Christ And A Technology Of Resurrection

“…the Kingdom of God is in your midst.” – Luke 17:21 Technology is all around us. The Internet, in just over 20 years, has radically transformed human life and culture,…

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Love, Hope, And The Cosmic Future

“But the greatest of these is love.” When I was in graduate school in the late 1960s, I came across the following passage from Jürgen Moltmann’s new book Theology of…

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Interview: Approaching The New Year

An interview with ILIA DELIO In reflecting back to the month of December and looking ahead to the new year, Ilia Delio and Brie Stoner enter into conversation about some…

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God Is Born Again And Again

We live in very strange times. Since the recent US presidential election and the wobbly markets impacting our economy, stress, anxiety, and uncertainty seem to mark the general milieu.   There…

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Love And The Dark Energy Of Expansion

Love unites. Strife divides. Unifying love and divisive strife are the two forces that set the cosmos in motion, at least according to the ancient philosopher from Sicily, Empedocles (490-430…

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Advent: Love Coming To Fullness

Advent—from the Latin for “a coming, an approach, or an arrival”—is upon us. This season is more than a sentimental, reminiscent waiting for a new Baby Jesus. The need for…

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Love In An Unfinished Universe: An Advent Reflection

The ancient Jewish mystical worldview is expressed in the Kabala, a system of secret teachings.  Here, the Genesis passage affirming that humans are made in God’s image is taken most…

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Waiting In An Unfinished Universe

The shock waves of our recent presidential election are still being felt around the country and around the world, as if the US just suffered a major heart attack.  The…

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Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”

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