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Evolution: God’s Love in Action

Where there is energy of attraction, union, generativity, and life, there is God. Continue Reading Evolution: God’s Love in Action

An Evolving Faith

We are all in evolution all the time. Continue Reading An Evolving Faith

An Evolving Faith: Weekly Summary

An Evolving Faith Saturday, June 5, 2021 Week Twenty-Two Summary and Practice Sunday, May 30—Friday, June 4, 2021 Sunday Anybody who has paid attention to their inner life of prayer or read history books surely recognizes that life and love are always cumulative, growing, and going somewhere that is always new and always more. Monday… Continue Reading An Evolving Faith: Weekly Summary

Accepting Evolution as Our Story

An Evolving Faith Accepting Evolution as Our Story Friday, June 4, 2021 There are few writers that I find more hopeful or exciting about the process of evolution than Franciscan Ilia Delio. She examines evolution through the lens of science, theology, technology, and personal development and reminds us that while evolving can be painful, God… Continue Reading Accepting Evolution as Our Story

Letting Go of What Used to Be

An Evolving Faith Letting Go of What Used to Be Thursday, June 3, 2021 God is doing new things, Jesus proclaimed, but only those with new minds and hearts can see a new world breaking through the cracks of the old. —Ilia Delio, The Hours of the Universe If evolution is the language of growth… Continue Reading Letting Go of What Used to Be

An Evolving Faith Includes Doubt

An Evolving Faith An Evolving Faith Includes Doubt Wednesday, June 2, 2021 In my mind, one of the markers of an evolving faith is an ability to integrate doubt—to hold the tension between what we’ve been taught and what we’ve come to know as true. When grounded in an experience of Love, doubt does not… Continue Reading An Evolving Faith Includes Doubt

Four Shapes of Transformation

An Evolving Faith Four Shapes of Transformation Tuesday, June 1, 2021 An evolutionary faith understands that nothing is static. The universe unfolds, our understanding of God evolves and deepens, and our moral development surely evolves as well. We simply cannot, as adults, live by the same overly simplistic rules that governed our morality as children.… Continue Reading Four Shapes of Transformation

Foundational Hope

An Evolving Faith Foundational Hope Monday, May 31, 2021 Memorial Day in US The Jesuit scientist Teilhard de Chardin wrote that “Love is the physical structure of the universe.” [1] Our theological way of saying the same thing is “Let us create in our image” (Genesis 1:26), in the image of the triune God, who… Continue Reading Foundational Hope

Divine Love Leads to Growth and Change

An Evolving Faith Divine Love Leads to Growth and Change Sunday, May 30, 2021 The whole creation is eagerly waiting for the full revelation of the children of God. . . . From the beginning until now, the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth. —Romans 8:19,… Continue Reading Divine Love Leads to Growth and Change

God’s Love Is Evolutionary

An Expanding Love God’s Love Is Evolutionary Friday, March 19, 2021 St. Joseph’s Day Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and scientist, and a friend, reflects on love as the heart of the universe. To see the universe through the eyes of love helps us make sense of evolution, not as a process of cold, blind… Continue Reading God’s Love Is Evolutionary

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