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Intelligence Was Never the Point: Interior to Interiority in the Age of AI

By Ilia Delio | August 5, 2026

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 left that belongs to us alone? For a long time, we did not have to ask the deeper question, because we had a comfortable answer to the surface one. We identified humanity with a set of distinctive capacities—reason, language, creativity, symbolic intelligence—and took these to define what it meant to be human. As long as those capacities remained uniquely ours, the question of personhood could stay politely closed. Intelligence seemed measure enough of human uniqueness.Artificial intelligence has unsettled that confidence. Machines now compose music, generate language, recognize patterns, and perform reasoning...

Open and Relational Theism: A Challenge for Catholic Theology

By Ilia Delio | February 14, 2022

Raimon Panikkar, one of the great but hidden lights of the twentieth century, wrote that cosmology and theology are intertwined: there is no cosmology without theology, and no theology without…

Our Eternal Roots

By Joe Masterleo | February 11, 2022

“Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush aflame with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.” ~ Elizabeth…

“Earth Body” by Sherry Robertson

By WISR Institute | February 11, 2022

Earth Body This Earth Body of mountains and valleys, Of caverns and streams of light filled blood, Stretches across the planet Weaving me deeply into the majesty of life. I…

Christophany Groups Update: Iowa

By WISR Institute | February 11, 2022

Quest: A New Christophany but Longtime Group Our group began nine years ago when a handful of friends joined for coffee and sharing their concerns about a church no longer…

Welcome Our New Director of Operations and Programming

By WISR Institute | February 4, 2022

Center for Christogenesis Community, Greetings! I am honored to begin my new position at the Center for Christogenesis as the Director of Operations and Programming. While my position is new,…

The Legacy of Martin Luther King

By Ilia Delio | January 19, 2022

This week we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, a visionary leader, who helped break the chains of oppression and renew the dignity and giftedness of the black person.…

Community Sharing – “Reality Ever New” Notes

By WISR Institute | January 17, 2022

Notes on the “Reality Ever New” Conversation by Emily A. DeMoor, Ph.D. https://wisrinstitute.org/recording-of-ilia-and-gregs-conversation-reality-ever-new/ Emily graciously shared with us her notes from the conversation “Reality Ever New” between Ilia Delio and…

Why I Need A C4C Conference

By Ilia Delio | January 17, 2022

As I surf the web and skim through a myriad of podcasts, conferences and ecological forums, I am reminded of the Great Shift we are in. We long for a…

Christophany Groups Update: Vancouver

By WISR Institute | January 17, 2022

The concepts of Christogenesis can be hard to grasp. Ilia Delio and other contributors to the website write in simple, and sometimes eloquent, prose, but those of us without a…