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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...

Co-Reactors or Co-Creators? Christic Life in an Unfinished Universe

By Ilia Delio | April 19, 2021

We are now in the third week of Easter and, while joy should fill the air, the persistent COVID pandemic, multiple random gun shootings, and the tragic injustice of…

Anniversary of Teilhard de Chardin’s Death

By WISR Institute | April 10, 2021

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Teilhard de Chardin Today we commemorate the anniversary of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s death. He…

Community Sharing: How to Raise Spiritual Awareness of God’s Love Within

By WISR Institute | April 9, 2021

This morning on the internet I came across your sweet Easter message. I feel there are many actions both in terms of faith and politics to confront gross inequities and…

Dust Unto Dust in the Ocean Froth

By Ceire Kealty | April 6, 2021

A kelp forest, hidden away in the Atlantic waters, boasts a fading form— an octopus, pale and pearled from the wear of her existence. She flutters with the waves, her…

Easter and the Power of Love

By Ilia Delio | April 4, 2021

Christ is Risen! Death and darkness no longer have power over us—but we must make a choice—shall we remain dead and in darkness, or shall we choose life? In Christ,…

Pain and New Creation

By Ilia Delio | March 30, 2021

Image: Marc Chagall, White Crucifixion,1938 We are entering into Holy Week, the final days of Jesus’ life, filled with darkness, pain, misunderstanding and rejection. We are familiar with the…

Thank Goodness, God is Not in Control!

By Thomas Oord | March 18, 2021

It’s common for people who believe in God to respond to suffering, confusion, or evil by saying, “All I know is that God is in control!” To the ears of…

Transhumanism or Ultrahumanism?

By Robert Nicastro | March 8, 2021

Transhumanism or Ultrahumanism? Q: Can you explain the problem, as you see it, with the movement towards the transhuman AI vs. the transhuman Christic. I I see this as…

Return to God and God will Return to You

By Ilia Delio | February 22, 2021

When I was growing up In New Jersey, Lent was a serious time of the year when fasting and acts of penance were required of the faithful. Each year, giving…