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Connection Is Not Communion: What a week at the ocean taught me about AI, evolution, and being human

I have just returned from a week at the Jersey shore and continue to reflect on my time there. Reflection allows my analytical left brain to slow down and see life from a wider perspective. Each morning, I walked down to the water's edge, where the retreating tide had left the sand dark, firm, and glistening like a held breath. I stood there while the spent waves slid cold over my feet and pulled back again, over and back, as if the ocean were taking my measure. To stand at the edge of the sea is to stand at the edge of yourself. The horizon dissolves the seam between water and sky, and the mind, watching, begins to lose its...
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry: Interiority and Subjectivity

Thomas Berry regarded the influence from Teilhard as integral to his thought. They were both concerned with the value and beauty of the universe as well as a commitment to…

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Petitionary Prayer in Light of God’s Uncontrolling Love

What is petitionary prayer? Petitionary prayer is a specific form of prayer aimed at making requests of God. They make requests of God for answers to life’s questions and concerns.…

Announcing the New Omega Center Website

Announcing the New Omega Center Website

Dear Omega Community, It is with great excitement that we are announcing the relaunched Omega Center website. Please come visit! Ilia and I have been working closely together for the…

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Jazz, Evolution, and Co-creation with Trinity

We are exhorted to participate with God as co-creators. But how does this work? Let’s start here: Science tells us all matter is energy. Teilhard understood energy is infused with…

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In Support of Teilhard’s Vision

The great medievalist scholar Etienne Gilson once wrote of Bonaventure: “You can either see the general economy of his doctrine in its totality, or see none of it, nor would…

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Trashing Teilhard

Was the Jesuit scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin really a fascist, racist, genocidal opponent of human dignity? I had thought that, at least among educated Catholics, the question was almost…

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God And The New Science

The striking discoveries of contemporary science are continually telling us new things about how material creation came to be and how it continues to evolve.  Although we do not have…

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Big News from the Omega Center: Opening our Doors to the Heart of Love

Dear Friends of the Omega Center As we enter a new year, I want to thank each of you for your support and participation in the Omega Center. Many of…

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A New People for a New World: Further Reflections on Christmas 

Dear Friends, I like to think of Christmas as a new “big bang,” a “trans-human” event.  I follow the movement of Transhumanism with keen interest and while some radical transhumanist…

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