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Mission for an Evolutionary Christianity

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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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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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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