World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture

The Future of Religion with Tripp Fuller and Ilia Delio (Preview Session)
2026-05-29 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online
A new 4-week online class with Dr. Ilia Delio and Dr. Tripp Fuller starts in May from our partners at Homebrewed Christianity. The class include 4 Visual Lectures, 4 Live Q&A Sessions (below) and more.

Preview Livestream: Friday, May 29th — 10am PT / 1pm ET
Week 1: Livestream Q&A: Monday, June 1st — 8am PT / 11am ET
Week 2: Livestream Q&A: Monday, June 8th — 10am PT / 1pm ET
Week 3: Livestream Q&A: Monday, June 22nd — 10am PT / 1pm ET
Week 4: Livestream Q&A: Monday, June 29th — 10am PT / 1pm ET
You haven’t lost your faith. You’ve outgrown its container.
You’ve read the books. Asked the questions. Maybe deconstructed, maybe just drifted. The faith you inherited doesn’t fit anymore—but you’re not ready to throw it all away. You’re not alone. And, you’re not broken.
What if the restlessness you feel isn’t a loss of faith but the growing pains of faith evolving? What if religion itself is going through exactly what you’re going through—and there’s a map for what comes next?
To register and learn more visit the event page. Please contact the organizer with questions or inquiries: classinfo@homebrewedchristianity.com.

The Future of Religion with Tripp Fuller and Ilia Delio (Week 1 Q&A)
2026-06-01 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online

The Future of Religion with Tripp Fuller and Ilia Delio (Week 2 Q&A)
2026-06-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online

The Future of Religion with Tripp Fuller and Ilia Delio (Week 3 Q&A)
2026-06-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online

Cosmos, Chaos and the Complexities of Consciousness
2026-06-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
A Live Conversation with Ilia Delio and Cynthia Bourgeault
We are living through a moment of profound fracture. Politics, war, the rise of AI, racism, colonialism, immigration, climate collapse — beneath every headline lies a deeper crisis: a fragmented consciousness struggling to comprehend itself in a rapidly changing world.
What if these are not separate emergencies, but symptoms of the same evolutionary threshold? What if chaos itself is part of how a new consciousness is being born?
Join two of today’s most visionary voices — theologian Ilia Delio and mystic teacher Cynthia Bourgeault — for a bold, hope-filled conversation about the spiritual story unfolding inside our global unraveling. Together, they will explore how the cosmos, chaos, and consciousness are deeply intertwined — and what it means to live awake, whole, and engaged in a world crying out for transformation.
All registrants will receive the recording.

Bending the Universe Towards Love with Ilia Delio
2026-06-24 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Online
Join Sr. Ilia Delio on June 24, 7-8:30 PM (UK) for a webinar hosted by The Scientific & Medical Network.
Are We Disconnected From the Core Energy of Love?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest and palaeontologist whose writings integrate evolutionary religion and evolution: work that was suppressed during his lifetime but has become a touchstone for anyone seeking to hold scientific and spiritual worldviews together. Teilhard believed the universe is not winding down but unfolding toward ever-greater consciousness, driven by what he called a core energy of love woven into the fabric of matter itself.
Drawing on Teilhard’s vision, this talk argues that love is not merely a sentiment but a cosmological force: one that calls us to awaken by recognising the whole within ourselves and in the world around us. When we lose sight of that inner-outer unity, we fall into the fragmentation that lies at the root of so much contemporary moral confusion: tribalism, ecological indifference, a sense of meaninglessness.
This matters now because we live in a moment when both science and spirituality are asking convergent questions about consciousness, interconnection, and purpose. Yet, most public conversation treats them as separate or opposed.
What if the divide between science and the sacred has always been smaller than we were told, and closing it could change everything about how you see yourself and the world around you?
This talk will be followed by a live Q&A with Prof. Ilia Delio.
To register and learn more visit the event page. Please contact the organizer with questions or inquiries.

The Future of Religion with Tripp Fuller and Ilia Delio (Week 4 Q&A)
2026-06-29 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online

AI and the Pope: Who Has the Last Word?
2026-07-30 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Pope Leo’s Magnifica humanitas: Who has the last word on AI?
AI is here to stay and how we navigate our human future in an AI world is the most pressing question of our day. Please join us on July 30th for a panel discussion on Pope Leo’s recent encyclical which calls for constraints and ethical norms for the use and development of AI. Four experts in artificial intelligence and religion will join us to ask what the Pope gets right and wrong in this important work. This is an event you won’t want to miss!

Scripture, Mystery, and Embracing Uncertainty - With Pete Enns
2026-08-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online
We live in a world that rewards certainty, yet the deepest questions of life resist easy answers. The Bible itself bears witness to people who encounter God not through clarity and control but through mystery, paradox, and transformation. In this webinar, we will look into a fresh exploration of Scripture as a guide not to certainty but a pathway to a different kind of knowing where faith can flourish amid ambiguity and change. Rather than seeing uncertainty as a spiritual failure, we will explore how it can become a doorway to deeper trust, greater openness, and a richer experience of the sacred presence that permeates all things.
Peter Enns (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Abram S. Clemens professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University (St. Davids, PA). He has written several books including The Bible Tells Me So, The Sin of Certainty, How the Bible Actually Works, and his latest Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming. Pete is also cohost of the popular podcast The Bible for Normal People. The focus of his work centers on understanding the Bible as an ancient text and thinking through what it means to read that ancient text well today.

Imagine Retreat by The Guild for Spiritual Guidance
2026-09-16 - 2026-09-20 | White Point Beach Resort, Hunts Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
Join Sr. Ilia Delio, Bayo Akomolafe, Cynthia Bourgeault and more September 16-20, 2026 in Nova Scotia, Canada at a retreat hosted by our partners at The Guild for Spiritual Guidance.
We are living in a time that asks something profound of humanity.
The climate is changing. Cultures are shifting. Long-held assumptions about progress, growth, and certainty are dissolving before our eyes.
Yet within every time of uncertainty lies the possibility of renewal.
The Imagine Retreat, September 16-20, 2026, is an invitation to pause together—to listen more deeply to the Earth, to wisdom traditions, to science, to poetry, and to one another.
For five days we gather on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia to explore how science, spirit, and human creativity might come together in service of a more compassionate and life-giving future.
This is not simply a conference. It is a conversation about what it means to be human in this moment of history—and how we might imagine the world that wants to emerge.
To register and learn more visit the event page. Please contact the organizer with questions or inquiries.

Journey to Greece with Ilia Delio
2026-09-20 - 2026-09-30
This is a ten-day in-person educational experience with Ilia Delio we’re sharing on behalf of Thalassa Journeys. To inquire or for more information contact our partners via phone or email.
Download this brochure .pdf for the full itinerary and program description.

Dear Friends,
The ancient Greeks are rightfully credited as the founders of Western science, not because they had microscopes or laboratories, but because they fundamentally invented the method of scientific inquiry. Between roughly the 6th century BCE and the 4th century BCE, Greek philosophers developed the revolutionary idea that the natural world operates according to intelligible principles that human reason could discover. This shift from mythological explanation to rational investigation marks the birth of science as we know it. The earliest Greek thinkers, known as the Pre-Socratics, initiated this intellectual transformation by daring to ask: what is the world fundamentally made of, and how does it work? Rather
than accepting traditional mythological accounts of creation and divine intervention, figures like Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus sought material and rational explanations. Thales of Miletus (c. 624-546 BCE), often considered the first Western philosopher, proposed that water is the fundamental substance of all things—a claim that seems quaint to modern ears, but nevertheless a search for a unifying principle based on observation rather than mythology. Socrates (469-399 BCE) left no written works, but his method of questioning, dialectic reasoning, and the relentless pursuit of truth through logical argument—became foundational to scientific methodology. He insisted that truth could be discovered through careful reasoning rather than authority or tradition and established the intellectual rigor that science requires. Plato made profound contributions by emphasizing that beneath the changing physical world exists an underlying mathematical order. His Theory of Forms suggested that the material world imperfectly reflects eternal, unchanging abstract principles. In short, early Greek thinkers were significant contributors to a new age of consciousness that provided the foundation for modern science. For them, science was a form of natural philosophy, a means of reflecting on the deep questions of existence and purpose.

We invite you to join us on a journey of discovery that retraces the footsteps of these remarkable thinkers. Our carefully curated travel experiences will take us to the ancient sites where Greek philosophy was born—from the bustling agora of Athens where Socrates engaged his students in dialectic debate, to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where “Know Thyself” remains inscribed for all seekers of wisdom. We will walk through the ruins of the Lyceum where Aristotle founded his school, visit the island of Samos where Pythagoras established his community of learners, and explore the temples and theaters where these philosophical traditions were woven into the fabric of Greek life. By experiencing Greece not as mere tourists, but as intellectual pilgrims, we will gain a profound appreciation for how these ancient thinkers help shaped the world we inhabit today. Whether you are a student of history, a philosophy enthusiast, or simply someone curious about the roots of Western thought, I am sure this journey will enrich your understanding and inspire your own pursuit to know the human experience in a vast and awesome universe.
Sincerely,
Ilia Delio, OSF, Ph. D.
Download this brochure .pdf for the full itinerary and program description.

10-Year Anniversary Conference: Love, Conflict, and an Unfolding Universe
2026-11-09 - 2026-11-11 | Villanova Inn @ Villanova University, 601 County Line Rd, Wayne, PA, 19807, United States
In 2026, we celebrate ten years of the Center for Christogenesis—a decade of imagining love as the energy of transformation. To mark this milestone and deepen our shared journey, we invite you to gather with us in person (and online) for our 10th Anniversary Conference at Villanova University.
Early bird registration plus hotel blocks and lodging information is now available. More details on speaker lineup and schedule are coming soon—for now, plan to join us!
Visit the conference page for the confirmed speaker lineup and more information.
