World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture

Science & Spirituality with Matthew Fox (Session 2 with Brian Swimme)
2026-04-15 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join friend of the Center for a special three-part live series with Matthew Fox exploring the meeting place of science and spirituality, beginning April 8, 2026 at 7pm ET together with three special guests.
Matthew Fox is joined by Nancy Ellen Abrams (April 8), Brian Swimme (April 15), and Robert Nicastro (April 22), each bringing a unique lens to this essential conversation.
To register and learn more visit the event page. Please contact the organizer with questions at support@wisdomfeed.com.

Science & Spirituality with Matthew Fox (Session 1 with Nancy Ellen Abrams)
2026-04-08 07:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online

Technology and the Sacred: Interfaith Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
2026-03-24 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York)
Join The College of St. Scholastica’s Braegelman Catholic Studies department online for an interfaith discussion on the ethical, spiritual, environmental, and social implications of artificial intelligence with four distinguished panelists: Ilia Delio, David Zvi Kalman, Adrian (Naabek) Liberty and Zahra Takhshid.
Free and open to the public—register here.

Trauma, Transformation, and Christ-wholeness with Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining
2026-03-17 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining.
Join the Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining for a webinar that explores the intersection of faith, tradition, and intergenerational trauma, with special emphasis on the Indigenous connection to evolutionary spirituality. We will examine how trauma is passed down through generations, not just through stories and behaviors but also through a deeper, embodied memory known by Indigenous cultures as blood memory, highlighting the unique contributions of Indigenous wisdom to the process of spiritual evolution and healing. The webinar will also integrate perspectives from the classic mystical Christian tradition—specifically the stages of purgation, illumination, and union—as a spiritual framework for healing.
Drawing from Raining’s academic research, her personal experience as a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa, and classic Christian teachings, participants will gain an understanding of how trauma impacts individuals, families, and communities across time, and how healing practices rooted in cultural memory, tradition, and spirituality—especially Indigenous teachings—can foster resilience and transformation. The webinar will engage with discussion and encourage participants to consider both personal and collective pathways to healing.
ABOUT HILLARY RAINING
The Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining serves as the Rector of St. Columba’s, Washington, DC. An accomplished scholar and writer, she holds a Master of Divinity from Yale and a Doctor of Ministry from Drew University. Her academic work explores reconciliation, liturgy, and Indigenous theology. She is the founder of The Hive, an award-winning nonprofit and global online community dedicated to spirituality and wellness. Known for her holistic approach to ministry, Hillary is also a spiritual director, forest therapist, and yoga instructor who remains a frequent contributor to national Episcopal publications and podcasts.

The recording and transcription will be available to all registrants within one week of the event.

Whitehead’s Universe (Group D Launch)
2026-03-06 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This is a five-week rolling course throughout 2026 with our partner and friend at the Center for Process Studies, Andrew Davis. Please learn more, contact and register at whiteheadsuniverse.com.
Dr. Andrew M. Davis’s five-week online introduction to Whitehead’s Universe is returning in 2026!
“Process philosophy” is wider than any single thinker, yet Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) remains its defining figure for the modern world. His “philosophy of organism” offers a profound vision of reality as dynamic, relational, and always alive with possibility and value. His wife Evelyn once compared his thought to a prism: “It must be seen not from one side alone but from all sides…as one moves around it, the prism is full of changing lights and colors.”
This course invites students, lifelong learners, and the philosophically and theologically curious to explore the many sides, lights, and colors of Whitehead’s universe—ranging from the microscopic to the cosmic, and always in relation to human experience as an expression of the cosmos.
Course Structure & Schedule
The course unfolds over five live Zoom sessions, running on a rolling schedule throughout 2026. Two initial iterations with respective US Pacific and US Eastern groups are now open for registration:
January-February
Group A: Meets Wed, 5:30-7:30 PM, PST (1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11).
Group B: Meets Fri, 5:30-7:30 PM, EST (1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13).
March-April
Group C: Meets Wed, 5:30-7:30 PM, PST (3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1).
Group D: Meets Fri, 5:30-7:30 PM, EST (3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3).
Readings & Resources
Primary readings are provided and are drawn from Dr. Davis’s forthcoming book Whitehead’s Universe: A Prismatic Introduction. Supplementary readings are also available for those who wish to dive deeper. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to contribute to weekly forum discussions and a write a short concluding paper.
Why Join?

Engage directly with Whitehead’s transformative vision in an accessible yet rigorous way.
Participate in live discussions with a close community of seekers and lifelong learners.
Receive early access to draft materials from Dr. Davis’s upcoming book.
Explore one of the most creative and relational visions ever to emerge in the history of philosophy and theology.

What Are Students Saying?

“…I want to say how incredible our Whitehead course was. I am still reeling from all I learned…”
“…Your lectures and your book in progress have been everything I hoped they would be, and more.”
“I immensely enjoyed the class and especially love the very approachable engagement with metaphysics in your book!”
“Your class was transformative for me.”

For more information, download the syllabus and register at whiteheadsuniverse.com.

Whitehead’s Universe (Group C Launch)
2026-03-04 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online

How Christianity Got Jesus Wrong with Reggie Williams
2026-02-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Reggie Williams.
Throughout history, shifting social, political, and economic circumstances have brought new interests and anxieties to the surface, shaping the questions each era brings to the story of Jesus. Yet these shifts have rarely been harmless. This ongoing process of adaptation has repeatedly remade Jesus into an ideological avatar, depicting him as one who sanctifies injury and harm—clothing violence in the garments of devotion to God. So deeply has Christianity been entangled with destructive political and cultural projects that confronting harmful ideologies is often perceived as an attack on the faith itself. To break this destructive pattern, we must ask with seriousness: how have Christians come to misunderstand Jesus so profoundly?
About Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams is Associate Professor of Black Theology and African American Studies at St Louis University in St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Title in theology, in 2014 (revised edition, 2021). The book examines the impact of exposure to theology in the Harlem Renaissance on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945 for his resistance. Dr. Williams is currently work includes a story of a complicated Christian response to fascism, and a study of ethics for better response to social injustice. Dr. Williams’ research interests include Black Theology, Black Studies, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Studies, and Christian ethics. Dr. Williams is a board member of the English Language section of the International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, former board member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, and the Society for Christian Ethics. Dr. Williams and his wife Stacy are the parents of a son, Darion, and a daughter, Simone.

Whitehead’s Universe (Group B Launch)
2026-01-16 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online

Whitehead’s Universe (Group A Launch)
2026-01-14 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online

Activating Cosmogenetic Experience with Brian Thomas Swimme
2026-01-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This is the start of an eleven-week course throughout with our friend Brian Swimme and organized by Deeptime Network. Please learn more, contact with questions or register at the event page on our partner’s website.

A New Structure of Experience is arising
Our course is based on the premise that a new structure of experience is giving rise to a new form of humanity. All leaps in being began with a new form of experience. In our present leap, the new form is identified as “cosmogenetic experience“ and as “time-developmental experience.” Experience is understood as the primary mode in which reality becomes present to human consciousness. Experience is prior to any concepts or ideas concerning reality. Experience comes first and establishes a new civilization with new ideas and institutions. Consciousness is understood as the capacity of perceiving one’s own inner states.

The Christian Mutation: Why God Cannot be Static
2025-12-04 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Thursday, December 4, at 5 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Ilia Delio.
Our communities are hemorrhaging. Racism persists. Gun violence claims the innocent. Immigrants are scapegoated. Nationalism wraps itself in the flag and claims the name of Christ. If religion is, as Tillich argued, the substance of culture, then our cultural substance is corrupted. But the question is more urgent than diagnosis: What if Christianity abandoned its political vocation at the very beginning? What if, in the early centuries, we traded the revolutionary God of Jesus for a philosophical abstraction—a timeless, immutable, apolitical principle governing us from a distance?
This talk will ask: Who is the God of Jesus of Nazareth, the God of radical mutuality, vulnerability, and love? Sr. Ilia will discuss how this God is fundamentally relational, genuinely becoming, and deeply embedded in the world’s suffering and creativity—offering us a path beyond both religious nationalism and secular despair. She will then turn to Teilhard de Chardin’s notion of love as the evolutionary force through which God emerges within creation, and through which a genuinely new political order might yet be born.
The recording will be available to all registrants within one week of the event.

The Story of the Noosphere
2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Wednesday, October 22, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Brian Swimme and Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, authors of award-winning The Story of the Noosphere.
The Story of the Noosphere reimagines our role in Earth’s evolution. We are not here merely to consume, but to participate directly in bringing forth a unified humanity. The same cosmic evolutionary force that created stars and galaxies is now constructing a thinking Earth, with the human collective as a planetary mind—what Teilhard de Chardin named the “noosphere.” Once perceptible only to visionaries like Teilhard, the noosphere is now visible, to any attentive mind, as a global nervous system of instantaneous communication, as an economic network more powerful than any nation-state, and as an AI-infused internet offering the full treasury of human knowledge to every community. This vision is no longer abstract philosophy; it is the architecture of our daily lives. Just as we now rely on the noosphere for our survival, the noosphere relies on us—on our creativity, insights, and aspirations—for its ongoing emergence. In this new cosmic story, each of us lives at the junction where the universe is awakening. Our personal destiny is entwined with the destiny of the whole. The challenge is not simply to observe this new era of Earth’s history, but to shape it—to bring intelligence, compassion, and courage to the great work now underway.
About Our Guests
Monica DeRaspe-Bolles is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she researches time-developmental cosmology and the potential emergence of a new structure of human experience that fosters cosmogenetic awakening. She is the co-author of The Story of the Noosphere and the co-writer of its thirty-five companion minifilms, created in collaboration with Brian Thomas Swimme.
Brian Thomas Swimme is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He completed his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. Swimme is the host of the Emmy Award–winning PBS special Journey of the Universe, co-written with Mary Evelyn Tucker. His most recent book, Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe, is an early example of autocosmology—a genre blending contemporary science with cosmological phenomenology. He writes Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology on Substack.
The recording will be available to all registrants within one week of the event.

The Future of Religion: Questions from the Next Generation
2025-09-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis free live Q&A with Robert Nicastro as part of our monthly webinar series. Simply register in advance below to receive the access information.
To add a donation to your registration and support our work use this separate, secure form.

“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard’s insight reminds us that the vitality of religion is carried forward by the hope of emerging generations and sustained by the wisdom of those who have gone before. Today’s generation is entering a new stage of evolution, in which digital culture, planetary crisis, and expanding consciousness are accelerating the growth of the noosphere and reshaping what it means to be human.
In this live Q&A, Robert will engage the pressing questions being asked about the future of faith. Guided by Teilhard’s cosmic vision, we will discuss how religion might take new form as evolution presses toward greater complexity and convergence. What does the energy of divine love look like in an age of technology and artificial intelligence? How do we understand God in a universe still coming to birth? And what forms of faith can sustain hope, creativity, and wholeness across generations? This conversation opens a space for dialogue and collective imagination, inviting us to glimpse the religion of tomorrow emerging within the unfinished universe.
A copy of the recording will be sent to all registrants within one week of the event.

The Art of Becoming Fearless
2025-08-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Thursday, August 28, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with our Executive Director, Robert Nicastro, PhD.
In a world facing ecological collapse, technology unmoored from wisdom, and a deepening crisis of meaning, fear has become the undertow of modern consciousness. This webinar invites us to resist that gravitational pull by reclaiming the prophetic imagination and Teilhard de Chardin’s vision of relational holism. Drawing from the urgency of the biblical prophets, who dared to speak hope into history’s darkest hours, as well as Teilhard’s cosmic mysticism, we will reframe fear not as an adversary, but as a crucible for transformation. Fear is not darkness to escape, but a threshold of possibility: a charged space where divine longing stirs human courage and the future leans in, inviting response. To live fearlessly is not to reject vulnerability, but to embrace it as the birthplace of deeper trust in the unfolding of love at the heart of the cosmos. In the spirit of the prophets and the evolutionary rhythm of life itself, fear becomes the spark that calls us to risk more boldly, rise more fully, and become more wholly ourselves.
The recording will be available to all registrants within one week of the event.

Is Real Change Possible? Changing our Minds in a Sea of Information
2025-06-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This is a no-cost webinar as part of our June Fundraiser. Simply register in advance below to receive the access information. To learn more about the vision for our June fundraiser, read Sr. Ilia’s post Integral Ecology in an Age of AI.
The mind is everything: what you think, you become; yet what shapes the mind? Culture? Religion? AI? From where do our thoughts arise? What forms our ideas? Integral ecology is a consciousness of deep relationality on every level. We know this intellectually, but we do not know this psychologically, religiously, or emotionally. Deep relationality does not influence our minds in the same way as does consumerism, money, or social media. What are the obstacles? What are the invitations? And is real transformation possible?
Join Sr. Ilia Delio and Robert Nicastro for this special event on Friday, June 20 2025 from 7:00 – 8:30 PM ET.
To add a donation to your registration and support our June fundraiser use this seperate, secure form.
A copy of the recording will be sent to all registrants within two weeks of the event.

Does God Need Us?
2025-05-21 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Dominican University, Lund Auditorium, 7900 W Division St, River Forest, IL, 60305, United States
The St. Catherine of Siena Lecture will be given online and in-person by Ilia Delio for our partner The Well Spirituality Center, co-sponsored by The Siena Center of Dominican University.
Classical theology states that God freely creates, that is, God creates with no other motive than God’s own desire and delight. God is in relationship with us but does not depend on us. Teilhard de Chardin reflected on God’s relationship to the world and concluded that God and the world are in mutual relationship. God is not so much delighted by the world but dependent on the world for God’s own fullness of life. We will explore Teilhard’s insights with regard to the significance of the cosmic Christ, Christian life, and the Church.
A recording will be available to registrants via email approximately 3 business days after the program.
To purchase tickets and learn more visit the event page. Please contact The Well Spirituality Center with questions.

Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science
2025-05-02 19:00 - 2025-05-04 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The Center for Christogenesis will hold its annual conference virtually starting Friday, May 2, 2025, and continuing through the weekend.
Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science: From Institution to Evolution
According to recent Pew Studies, religion is waning as spiritual secularism is rising. While the data has sounded alarm bells, there may be good reason why religion has become irrelevant while spirituality has become a cultural icon. This conference aims to suture the relationship between religion and spirituality by relocating religion at the heart of cosmic life. Religion has not gone away but it is advancing in new ways. Formal or institutional religion has sidetracked the modern person by placing constraints around religion and segregating its core energies in creeds and doctrines. Teilhard de Chardin realized that religion is essential to the direction of evolution. We will explore how a renewed sense of religion in evolution can reinvigorate planetary life, especially in an age of technology.
Learn more about our speakers on our conference page. Detailed session schedule, talk titles and abstracts to come soon.
Student pricing and limited scholarships are available for this conference. Please apply here and we will email with registration instructions.

Process Mysticism with Dan Dombrowski
2025-04-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Thursday, April 10, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Professor of Philosophy Dan Dombrowski.
The term “mysticism” can mean at least two different things. The term can refer to direct experience of God or it can refer to the thesis that reality is ineffable and can be characterized only in paradoxical ways. These two meanings are quite different because there is nothing in the concept of direct experience of God that entails paradox or ineffability.
The purpose of the presentation is to explore both senses of what it means to be a mystic from the perspectives of several process philosophers or neoclassical theists, including Alfred North Whitehead, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and especially Charles Hartshorne. This exploration will dispel the traditional opposition between the God of religious experience and “the God of the philosophers.”
Dan Dombrowski will argue against the classical concept of God, which gives rise to such opposition. Judicious versions of divine inclusiveness, nature mysticism, ideal power (if not omnipotence), asceticism, apophaticism, “visions and voices,” and religious aesthetics and ethics will also be discussed, as time permits.
About Dan Dombrowski
Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of twenty-two books and over two-hundred articles in scholarly journals in philosophy, theology, classics, and literature. Among his books are Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); and Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
His latest book is Process Mysticism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023). He is the Editor of the journal Process Studies and is Past-President of the Metaphysical Society of America.
The recording will be available to all registrants within two weeks of the event.

“The Primacy of Love” Lent Retreat with Ilia Delio
2025-04-05 09:00 - 2025-04-06 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Congregational Church Los Angeles, 540 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90020, United States
This is a two-day in-person and online retreat series with Ilia Delio for our partner the Immaculate Heart Community.
Join the Immaculate Heart Community as Ilia Delio leads reflections on the cosmological and the theological meaning of love and she “shows love to be the irresistible force of attraction that leads straight into the heart of God.” Register with our partner or contact them with questions here.
Schedule
April 5: 9:00am – 5:00pm PST (In person and on Zoom)
April 6: 9:00am – 11:00am PST (Zoom only)
Ilia will provide reflection questions for participants to share with each other and will include retreat meditation experiences.
Location
First Congregational Church Los Angeles
540 South Commonwealth Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90020
Private and shared guest rooms are available at St. Paul’s Commons for April 4 and 5. For reservations, call Anilin Collado 213-999-3179.
To purchase tickets and learn more visit the event page. Please contact Immaculate Heart Community with questions.

Sacred Universe Award 2025
2025-03-29 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Online
This is a partner event with The Well Spirituality Center featuring 2022 Center for Christogenesis award winner Louis Savary, Hunger for Wholeness guest Brian Swimme, and Sr. Gail Worcelo.
The Well is excited to host a star-studded event on its 25th anniversary. Join Sr. Gail Worcelo, Dr. Brian Swimme, and Dr. Louis Savary, recipient of the 2025 Sacred Universe Award, for a day of inspiration and connection. This prestigious award, first presented to Thomas Berry in 1993, honors individuals whose work fosters a deeper, mutually-enhancing relationship between humanity and the Earth.
Be part of this transformative event—to purchase tickets and learn more visit the event page. Please contact The Well Spirituality Center with questions.

Science and Religion in a Participatory Cosmos
2025-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Wednesday, March 19, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with philosopher and process thinker Matthew David Segall.
This talk explores the evolving relationship between natural science and theology through the lens of process philosophy, arguing that both disciplines—often seen as conflicting ways of knowing and worldviews—can be reframed and integrated within a participatory understanding of the cosmos.
Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s organic realism, as well as kindred thinkers like Schelling and Teilhard de Chardin, the presentation will critique the bifurcation of nature that underlies the dominant scientific materialist paradigm and instead offer an onto-epistemology in which experience, creativity, and relationality are fundamental.
By engaging with contemporary developments in quantum physics, complexity science, and process/open and relational theology, this talk aims to demonstrate how a participatory cosmology can bridge the divide between scientific empiricism and mystical experience.
About Matthew David Segall
Matthew David Segall, PhD, is a philosopher, educator, and transdisciplinary researcher specializing in process philosophy and the intersection of science and spirituality. His scholarship focuses the implications of Alfred North Whitehead’s organic realism for contemporary natural scientific and philosophical discourse, emphasizing the participatory nature of knowledge and reality. He is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Religions titled “Cosmology, Creation, and Divine Agency: Bridging Scientific Theories and Theology.” His most recent book is titled Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Integral Imprint, 2023). He blogs regularly at Footnotes2Plato.com.
The recording will be available to all registrants within two weeks of the event.

Ask Me Anything with Ilia Delio
2025-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This is an online webinar with Ilia Delio for our partner Human Energy.
Join Human Energy for an enlightening “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session with renowned theologian and scientist, Ilia Delio, on Friday, March 14th. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with a leading voice at the intersection of science, religion, and human consciousness.​
Event Focus: The Noosphere and the Integration of Science and Religion
In this AMA, we will delve into themes from Ilia’s recent presentation at the N2 2024 Conference, titled “Teilhard’s Noosphere: Why Evolution and Religion Belong Together.” She explores the concept of the noosphere—a term introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the sphere of human thought and collective consciousness—and discusses the intrinsic relationship between matter, consciousness, and the spiritual energy driving evolution. Ilia emphasizes the need for a holistic understanding of science and religion as complementary forces shaping the future of humanity and the planet.
About Human Energy
Human Energy is dedicated to fostering thoughtful dialogue at the intersection of technology, consciousness, and society. We aim to help humanity recognize that evolution is advancing toward a greater collective potential and to cultivate a unified vision for the flourishing of both our species and our planet. Our mission is to advance interdisciplinary scientific research on the future of collective consciousness, bringing renewed meaning, direction, and values to our increasingly interconnected world.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with Ilia Delio and explore the profound connections between science, religion, and the future of human consciousness.
For more information and to submit questions visit the event page on our partner website.

Catholicity and Wholeness Beyond the Church
2025-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us Thursday, February 27, at 7 p.m. ET for a Center for Christogenesis webinar with Society of African Missions member and Ph.D. candidate Augustin Kassa.
What happens when we finally recognize and consider the cosmos as the real, the true, the absolute catholic? The cosmos can be understood as the true manifestation of catholicity (derived from the Greek katholikos, meaning universal or all-embracing), representing fundamental unity and completeness beyond religious institutions. As the totality of existence, it embodies genuine wholeness while existing in a dynamic paradox of being complete yet incomplete due to ongoing cosmic evolution.
This cosmic catholicity is maintained through an intricate web of spatiotemporal relationships encompassing past, present, and future states of being. The understanding of this universal wholeness can be approached through three distinct but complementary epistemological frameworks: culturalicity (represented by philosophies like Ubuntu and various ancient religious traditions, including Christianity), scienticity (exemplified by Big Bang cosmology), and technicity (instrumental-practical approaches).
Rather than establishing hierarchical superiority, we will discuss how these paradigms offer unique insights into cosmic unity, each illuminating different aspects of the universal whole while maintaining their epistemological integrity. Together, they form a comprehensive approach to understanding cosmic wholeness, with their value lying in their ability to facilitate deeper engagement with existence through their respective methodological lenses.
About Augustin Kassa
Augustin Kassa, SMA, is a member of the Society of African Missions and a Ph.D. candidate at Villanova University. What began as scattered seeds of curiosity across various fields of study has recently blossomed into a singular quest, the search for wholeness. Over the past few years, he has discovered a theological perspective that celebrates connection rather than demanding traditional theology division. Today, his research interests stand at an exciting crossroads. His work focuses on weaving together three seemingly disparate threads to foster a greater sense of togetherness. While he aims to unite cultural wisdom (primarily African Ubuntu), religious insights, and scientific understandings of togetherness, he always respect and validate each tradition’s effort to locate and experience connectedness.
The recording will be available to all registrants within two weeks of the event.

Old God, New God: New Theologies with Ilia Delio (Session 2/2)
2025-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This is a calendar placeholder for a multi session event. For information about this event and to register, visit the event page for Session 1.

Old God, New God: New Theologies with Ilia Delio (Session 1/2)
2025-02-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This is a two-session online webinar series with Ilia Delio for our partner the Spiritual Life Center.
Monday, February 10, 7–9PM: At the first session, Dr. Delio will discuss how new discoveries in science, such as quantum physics, open up new theological understandings. Ilia will invite participants to see the cosmos as a sacred whole, where the universe is in God and God is in the universe (while God is also more than the universe).
Monday, February 17, 7–9PM: At the second session, Dr. Delio will discuss how these new developments in theology support our engagement with a personalized and relational universe. Anyone for whom ancient doctrines of God and mechanistic views of the universe are limiting will find “Old God, New God” intriguing. This program will foster valuable understanding for those who want to nurture their connection with the divine whether within or outside a religious context.
Wherever you are on life’s journey, you are welcome to this event.
For more information and to register visit the event page on our partner’s website.

Renewing Faith (Online Conference from Process & Faith)
2025-01-23 08:00 - 2025-01-25 17:00 (America/New_York)
We are partnering with Process & Faith, a program of the Center for Process Studies, on an exciting online conference and wanted to pass along their message about it below to invite you to explore it for yourself.
Renewing Faith Online Conference, January 23-25, 2025
Are you feeling burnt out and disconnected from your ministry or spiritual life? The Renewing Faith Conference is designed specifically for forward-looking Christian pastors, staff members, lay leaders, spiritual directors, chaplains, and those outside traditional church settings – whether you consider yourself a progressive mainliner, a quiet contemplative, a spiritual seeker, or a “deconstructing” post-evangelical – who are seeking to reignite their passion and find life-giving purpose in their faith journeys.
At the Renewing Faith Conference, you will:

Grow and Deepen Your Theological Roots: Participate in thought-provoking discussions led by renowned theologians and ministry leaders.
Gain Fresh Perspectives on Ministry: Hear and discuss ways to incorporate process and open-relational theology and practice into your preaching, ministry, community, and personal faith journey.
Build Lasting Connections: Network with like-minded Christians who share your commitment to fresh expressions of Christianity, forming lasting relationships and networks of support.
Embody Your Faith: Experience worship and practices that connect mind, body, and spirit through the arts and movement, fostering a holistic approach to ministry and well-being.

Imagine leaving the conference with a renewed sense of purpose, a refreshed spirit, and practical tools to sustain your faith and your ministry for years to come. This isn’t just another conference; it’s a life-changing experience designed to help you thrive in your calling and spirituality.
Don’t let burnout or boredom define your ministry or faith life.

Take the first step towards renewal and transformation. Visit our partner’s event page for more details and to register.

Whitehead's Universe
2025-01-15 08:00 - 2025-02-16 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
We are happy to share this upcoming workshop series hosted by our friend, Andrew Davis.
A Five-Week Introductory Course for the Philosophically and Theologically Curious
This course will be offered on a rolling five-week schedule throughout 2025. For the first iteration, running from mid-January to mid-February, two U.S. groups (Group A & B) and one international group (Group C) are available for registration, each limited to 20 students. For more information about the course outline and dates visit their website link in the side tool bar.
“Reality is not static: it is a process of becoming. The fluent character of the togetherness of things was already emphasized in Greek philosophy: All things flow, said Heraclitus. Indeed the fact is too obvious to escape notice. But unfortunately things which are too obvious often escape receiving their due emphasis” — Alfred North Whitehead
Check out the course teaser video.
About the Teacher:
Andrew M. Davis, Ph.D. is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of cosmological wonder. He is the academic and research director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, teaches, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought (Whitehead and Beyond). An advocate of metaphysics and meaning in a hospitable universe, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like because we are a part of it. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of nearly a dozen books including Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy, Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, and Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology. This course is based upon drafts of his next book, Prismatic Universe: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead.

The Noosphere and the Global South Conference
2024-12-16 08:00 - 2024-12-18 19:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This December, 16-18, 2024 immerse yourself in this important dialogue and participate in this free live-stream of the Noosphere and the Global South Conference hosted by Human Energy.
As part of this Conference, Ilia Delio presents, Teilhard’s Noosphere: Why Evolution and Religion Belong Together.
The Noosphere is our present reality of complexified matter and global consciousness. Scientists mapping the Noosphere show grids of interconnections that reveal a formative pattern of a higher-ordered collective. Teilhard de Chardin envisioned this pattern almost a century ago, but he saw that emerging complexified wholeness cannot be adequately sustained without religion. He did not conceive religion as a confessional set of doctrines but the depth dimension of all reality, the search for ultimate meaning, and the state of being grasped by ultimate concerns. “Religion and evolution,” he said, “are destined to form one single continuous organism, in which their respective lives prolong, are dependent on, and complete one another.” Religion is the biological response to the emergence of spiritual energy. His sense of religion, therefore, is experiential and supports faith in the future. The true function of religion is to sustain and spur on the progress of life. In his view, no one religion can satisfy the religious spirit of the earth and its evolution towards Omega. If religion is a biological phenomenon, what is religion on the level of emerging Noosphere? Science has significantly advanced the Noosphere but without a rebirth of religion, the future is fragile.
Registration is free for all participants. You must register in advance to attend the event in person. (See link in side panel)
*All presentations will be live-streamed for open access.
Watch the invitation to the Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkHTdotR-M

Can Science Be a Form of Faith? A Discussion of Teilhard's Vision
2024-12-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Can Science Be a Form of Faith? A Discussion of Teilhard’s Vision
Teilhard de Chardin, a pioneering thinker at the intersection of science and religion, envisioned a cosmos in which matter and spirit are entangled in an evolutionary journey toward ultimate unity. He suggested that science is not only a method for understanding the material world but also a profound source of revelation. In a world fraught with division, fear, and uncertainty, join Ilia and Robert for a discussion on how contemporary science can deepen our sense of the divine, renew our zest for life, and offer direction and hope in a time of crisis.
Join Ilia and Robert for this special event on
December 6, 2024 at 7:00 – 8:00 PM (New York EST)
This is a no-cost event. Simply register in advance below to receive the access information.
A copy of the recording will be sent within two weeks of the event.
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Healing our Collective Pain with Sheri Kling (Session 2/2)
2024-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
