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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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Teilhard de chardin: a big thinker for a big universe

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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Boundaries, Bark, And Incarnation

The boundaries are gone.  We may not have all realized it yet, but they’ve dissolved right in front of us.  Certainly, many of us—maybe most of us—are playing as if…

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Why We Need To Talk About Christianity As Planetary Faith

Several weeks ago I met my first real Teilhard opponent.  She was a religion scholar from Indiana University and was quite adamant that Teilhard was a naïve optimist with a…

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Easter Message: Faith-Shaking Resurrection

The celebration of Easter marks the most incredible event in this history of the cosmos summed up in a brief acclamation: “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come…

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A Hunger For Wholeness

The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Ilia Delio’s forthcoming book A Hunger for Wholeness: Soul, Space, and Transcendence, available April 2, 2018. We have the capacity to…

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Creating Harmony Between Biblical Faith And Science

An audio interview with Deborah Haarsma In this Omega Center interview Brie Stoner invites BioLogos President Deborah Haarsma to share  her work, perspectives, and passion on a range of topics,…

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Beyond Patriarchy And Gender: Towards Personhood

I was raised in a matriarchal household by a Sicilian mother who was a staunch feminist long before the term was in vogue.  I was taught from an early age…

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Towards Omega: Jet Skiing Or Scuba Diving?

One of the most significant social media platforms in our age is Facebook.  One can easily spend a few hours, surfing through the various posts, YouTube videos, and various interest…

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Beyond The Surface Level

In this Omega Center interview Brie Stoner invites Edwin Olson to share the interests and influences that lead him to write his most recent book, entitled And God Created Wholeness:…

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