Why do we need a new God?
Because we are restless and we are longing
and we need to rediscover God in our own age… Are you ready? – Ilia
As part of our fundraising drive this month, we are releasing a new video series — “What is God Today?” — that explores the Omega vision and understanding of God in light of modern science and the challenges of our contemporary world. Today we are sharing the introductory video, and you can view it here:
Ilia Delio, OSF is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University, and is the author of seventeen books including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods) which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009, first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christwon a third place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love (Orbis, 2013), which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science. Her most recent book “A Hunger for Wholeness” was published in 2018.
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What a wonderful initiative! We sure need the likes of this if we are to stand any chance of attracting those under 40 in acceptable numbers right down to the youngest of our society. Well done & thank you.
What is God today? A great question… It reminds me of a story.
I was in Assisi years ago with Richard Rohr for an Enneagram conference. We went to the Cathedral for a tour. Richard showed several of us a statue of St Francis kneeling down, bent over with arms crossed and gazing at the ground. In the earth was a Sacred Dove with wings spread.
Richard shared that this was the only sculpture/artwork he had seen where the Holy Spirit was not shown in the air but embedded in the ground, in matter, in us!
He then told us that Francis would often stay up all night crying out…
“Who are you oh God and Who am I”?
The question … “What is God today?” may continue to encourage others to continue to look for a God that is separate. Putting these two questions together “Who are you oh God and Who am I”? leads me into more of a relational, “mystical oneness” response/perspective. It helps open my heart, mind, soul and to TRUST that God, this “spark of Divinity”, really is embedded in me, in all of space and in all created things, and especially in the unknown. Our world needs to Trust the Unknown where unlimited possibilities exist and to BECOME ONE with the Divine!
Thank you, Sr Ilia! I am ALL IN.
I look forward to attending The Love at the Center of the Cosmos conference next week.
I am very much looking forward to next weekend in Philly. It’s an exciting time to be alive!
“The same God showing up in new ways!” I am so excited about this new series “What is God Today?” It sounds like it is what we need to help others begin to turn toward seeing, understanding and coming to know God in new ways. Thank you, Sister Ilia and the Omega Center for your continually good work.
Great idea, Ilia! How important it is to integrate the work of OMEGA CENTER to a wider readership. Looking forward to next weekend at Chestnut Hill Conference. I know it will be enlivening and inspiring!
Lil Needham