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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 concept ready to meet it. We can find the thinkers who speak ourlanguage, the frameworks that confirm our instincts, the communities that share our angle ofvision. On its face this is an abundance — fertile, enlivening, endlessly generative.And yet abundance has a shadow. An information explosion that promises to expand us canquietly contract us instead. Because we can choose the ideas that suit us best, we tend to doexactly that, gravitating toward what is comfortable and familiar, settling into the warm cornersof our own assumptions. The very technology that invites...
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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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Radical Incarnation: A Christmas Appeal

Dear Friends, We are once again in the season of waiting—patient waiting—a virtue the consumer culture has abandoned. However, we are not waiting for something but for someone; we are…

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Evolution and Radical Love

Many people ask, why is it necessary to pay attention to science? What does religion have to do with science? Historically, the foundations of modern science are found in the…

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Can A Thinking Heart Make Us Whole?

The volatility of the news is a good indicator of the unstable forces that are impacting our world today. A drop of 850 points on the NASDAQ and it seems…

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