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Ilia Delio’s powerful vision of creation for the 21st century

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Don Watkins

Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian by Ilia Delio My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve read a number of Ilia Delio’s books and this is great. It’s more from the heart than … Continue reading →

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The Pandemic Mirror – Omega Center

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Don Watkins

I’ve been reading Sister Ilia Delio’s Memoir, Birth of a Dancing Star,  the last few days and in looking at her community blog for Omega Center I came upon this article called, The Pandemic Mirror. It’s an invitation to think … Continue reading →

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A conversation with Ilia and Matthew

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Don Watkins

I came across this delightful discussion of Ilia Delio and Matthew Fox on the need for spirituality. I suppose I like it because it’s a lively discussion by two of my favorite authors. I had never heard of Matthew Fox … Continue reading →

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Internet Easter

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Don Watkins

This essay by Sister Ilio Delio, OSF resonates for me. We have entered a new age that has been thrust upon us. The cry of various religious leaders to forego social distancing to meet as we once did invites a … Continue reading →

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The dynamic energy of transcendence

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Don Watkins

Without the dynamic energy of transcendence by which consciousness rises and relationships deepen, religion grows old and weary; it becomes rote, a mechanistic repetition of old ideas. To function out of an old cosmology with old ideas of matter and … Continue reading →

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Invisible God

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Don Watkins

Just yesterday I was having a conversation with one of the summer interns at Mt. Irenaeus when I said to him that the God of the theologians was not God as I had experienced him. Too often I/we let theologians … Continue reading →

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An expanding universe

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Don Watkins

Thomas Merton gives voice to a recurring thought of my own and that is the Word in a world where we understand more than when the words were first recorded. I must get to know something of modern physics. Even … Continue reading →

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Merton and morality

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Don Watkins

It sometimes happens that the men who preach most vehemently about evil and the punishment of evil, so that they seem to have practically nothing else on their minds except sin, are really unconcious haters of other men. They think … Continue reading →

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