Heart of Matter: A Cosmic Mass
March 28, 2023 “This movement from matter to spirit marks “the fundamental property of the cosmic mass to concentrate upon itself…as a result of attraction of synthesis.” Thus, “there is…
Heart of Matter: Stability of Balance
“The progressive evolutionary movement, according to Teilhard, is one in which the consistence of the elements and their stability of balance lie in the direction not of matter but of…
Does God Suffer?
The name “God” reflects the incomprehensible wellspring of love at the heart of an expanding universe. The Christian understanding of God’s relational nature begins with the first divine person, the…
Heart of Matter: Biological Ascent
March 14 “Teilhard de Chardin described evolution as a “biological ascent,” a movement toward more complexified life forms in which, at critical points in the evolutionary process, qualitative differences emerge.”…
Seeing with Two Pairs of Eyes
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf,” writes Annie Dillard.[1] This simple…
Webinar: Will Christianity Survive?
The German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche once said, we must become gods ourselves if we are to live in this world without God. Is this blasphemy or the deeper truth of…
Heart of Matter: The Mind of Christ
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 “A higher consciousness of love, putting on the mind of Christ, is not a trapeze act for saints; it is how we deal with human misunderstandings, conflicts,…
