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Endowed with Wonder: Heschel on Science and Religion

According to Hebrew Bible scholar Abraham Heschel, there is embedded within each of us a natural proclivity to wonder, a sense of â€śunmitigated innate surprise.”[1] A sense of wonder is constitutive of who we are as humans. Wonder, for Heschel, is not merely an emotion, but an existential experience, a fundamental orientation to the world. All religious awareness and insight are rooted in wonder.  One of the principal responsibilities of religion, therefore, is to fight against the anesthetizing effects of becoming "too familiar" with life and reality, and to instill in us a sense of perpetual surprise, a willingness to encounter the world again and again as if for the first time.[2] In this way, religion has nothing to fear from science. The...
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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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A Body in Transition: From Center to Institute

We are living through a hinge moment in the human story. Artificial intelligence, planetary crisis, and the steady erosion of shared meaning are not three separate emergencies; they are the…

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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…

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Holy Family University to Honor Theologian Ilia Delio

Read Holy Family University’s full announcement here. Holy Family University will grant two honorary Doctors of Humane Letters at its 2026 commencement ceremony on May 16. Sister Ilia Delio, OSF, Ph.D.,…

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A New Name, Our Next Horizon

Dear Friends, In 2016, I launched the Omega Center as an online forum for promoting the vision of Teilhard de Chardin. My aim was simple: write a monthly blog to…

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