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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...

“Reality Ever New” Fundraiser

By Ilia Delio | November 29, 2021

Dear Friends of the Center, Today is the last Sunday before Advent. Soon we shall sing of waiting and longing for Christ’s coming, stretching our hearts into God’s promise of…

C4C Special Announcement

By Ilia Delio | November 18, 2021

November 16, 2021 Dear Friends of C4C, Life is a spontaneous flow of events, and one can never quite predict the critical points of transition or the factors that…

Community Sharing – St Vincent de Paul Parish Albany, NY

By WISR Institute | November 17, 2021

“The Adult Faith Formation Committee of St Vincent de Paul Parish in Albany, NY, is sponsoring a Zoom eight session discussion of Hours of the Universe. We discuss one Hour…

Christophany Groups – St. Scholastica Monastery, MN

By WISR Institute | November 17, 2021

When the pandemic closed our doors at the Center to in-person gatherings in March of 2020, one of the first things we did was to start a Christophany group which…

Session 6: Common Ground and Social Change

By WISR Institue | November 14, 2021

Hello again, Course Participants. This week we will share our final live seminar session for this Howard Thurman course with the Center for Christogenesis. One book, even Thurman’s Search for…

Now is the Time to Change

By Ilia Delio | November 11, 2021

The rapid changes of our modern world, kindled by the meteoric rise of computer technology, has created a needed space for spirituality. The fast-paced, breathless amount of information coming across…

Session 5: At-One-Ment?

By Ridgeway Addison | November 5, 2021

Hello again, everyone, Thanks to each of you who participated in our most recent class session. This past week we focused on Thurman’s concern for the “U” and “R” words…

Session 4: Enter Religion – Visions, Dreams, and Wounds

By Ridgeway Addison | October 28, 2021

Greetings again, everyone. This week we moved into–and through–the third chapter of Howard Thurman’s Search for Common Ground book. During our live seminar session we reviewed Thurman’s reflection on and…

Session 3: Life’s “Aliveness”

By Ridgeway Addison | October 21, 2021

Hello again, course participants. And welcome to Week 3 of our Thurman course! We spent most of our first week together “getting to know”– one another, the course structure and…