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A Body in Transition: From Center to Institute

By Ilia Delio | May 21, 2026
We are living through a hinge moment in the human story. Artificial intelligence, planetary crisis, and the steady erosion of shared meaning are not three separate emergencies; they are the same emergency seen from different sides. Each is asking the same question: who, in this century, do we intend to become? It is in the gravity of that question that the Center for Christogenesis is undergoing a transition — from “Christogenesis” to the “World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture.” Some have asked, why the change? Why does anything change? Because life is energetic, a restless flow of attraction and transcendence — what Teilhard de Chardin called withinness and withoutness. There is an intrinsic dialectic built into nature, a yearning...
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The Transformative Power Of Suffering

By Pamela Begeman | June 21, 2017

The many faces of suffering — nightly we hear the counts: be they the ravaged faces of Syrian refugees, the millions of starving and impoverished children around the world, the…

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Suffering And Love In Teilhard’s Spirituality

By Louis M. Savary | May 30, 2017

What if suffering, and the energy generated through suffering, could be focused and used to make a positive difference in the world? Louis Savary invites us to consider insights offered by Teilhard…

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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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