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From Original Sin to Original Love

Christians worldwide observe Lent as a season of fasting, prayer, and spiritual return to God. These six weeks create space for self-reflection, good works, and renewed appreciation of God’s grace. Beginning with the ritual of ashes—reminding us that we are dust and to dust we shall return—Lent invites spiritual renewal as we lament our transgressions. The doctrine of original sin developed during the 3rd century in Irenaeus of Lyons’ struggle against Gnosticism and was significantly shaped by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), who first used the phrase “original sin.” Augustine’s influential teaching emphasized that humanity inherited a “stain of sin” from Adam’s disobedience, creating a state of moral corruption requiring Christ’s redemption. While the concept of original sin is not...
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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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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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