Connection Is Not Communion: What a week at the ocean taught me about AI, evolution, and being human
I have just returned from a week at the Jersey shore and continue to reflect on my time there. Reflection allows my analytical left brain to slow down and see…
Intelligence Was Never the Point: Interior to Interiority in the Age of AI
From where I stand, we are having the wrong argument about artificial intelligence. The debate almost always runs along one axis. Can machines think? And if they can, what is…
What the Machine Cannot Know: Reclaiming Education as Spiritual Formation in an Age of AI
Education is not what it once was. The centers of learning that gave rise to the university were, from their beginnings, centers of intellectual and spiritual formation—places where to learn…
A Letter From Ilia Delio
The Center for Christogenesis is a living testimony to evolution, a developmental process whereby lifeseeks more life. As the late John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote: “To live is to change,…
Educating for Love
The information age has done something remarkable: it has accelerated the generation of ideasand concepts beyond anything our ancestors could have imagined. Whatever your taste, whateveryour question, there is a…
Evolution, Technology, and the Divine Ground: Teilhard de Chardin as a Resource for Responding to Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas arrives at a moment of genuine civilizational urgency. Its concern for human dignity, its alarm at the displacement of labor, its refusal to treat…
AI, Wisdom, and the Awakening Noosphere
When I first started writing on technology and personhood fifteen years ago, very few scholars were reading the signs of the times. Today, discussions and books on AI dominate our…
