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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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Waiting In An Unfinished Universe

The shock waves of our recent presidential election are still being felt around the country and around the world, as if the US just suffered a major heart attack.  The…

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November Interview: Harnessing Love In Changing And Challenging Times

An interview with ILIA DELIO In this month’s interview Brie Stoner asks Ilia Delio for her thoughts on the transformative potential of love as we navigate through challenging times and the…

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Would You Take A “Jesus Pill”?

Expanding on our theme of love in an information culture and the role of technology to enhance our relations, Ron Cole-Turner considers the provocative transhumanist suggestion that artificial enhancement provides…

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On Killing Mice And Loving Robots: Are We Committing A Great Injustice?

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The Depth Of Love In A Shallow Culture

In an illuminative book written over twenty years ago called Following Christ in a Consumer Culture the late Jesuit philosopher John Kavanaugh examined the flattening out of the human person…

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October Interview: Love In The Midst Of Suffering

An interview with ILIA DELIO For this bonus fifth Monday in October we’re offering something a little different in the form of an audio recording. In this interview Brie Stoner dialogues…

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My Personal Reflection On Seeking New Truths

Being asked to discuss the question: What does it mean to say ‘God is Love’ in a world of violence and suffering? made me realize that this is actually a…

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God Of Love In A Quantum Cosmology

When confronted with the question and apparent contradiction of “A God of love in a world of suffering and violence,” we need to step back and examine the context by…

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The Emergence Of Divine Love Through Human Suffering

In the 1970s it was common to critically compare the thought of Teilhard de Chardin with Sri Aurobindo (née Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950).1 I discovered Sri Aurobindo and his spiritual partner…

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