This episode of The Sacred Everywhere podcast and video series features Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and an American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Her most recent book is The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole (Orbis, 2025). This is Pt. 1 and may also be watched on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sOVSKWP5CF8. The full episode is available on Substack at https://open.substack.com/pub/sherikling/p/god-in-matter-evolution-and-ai?r=22d1zx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty 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 Christ won 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. Ilia holds two honorary doctorates, one from St. Francis University in 2015, and one from Sacred Heart University in 2020.

Ilia also has a podcast called Hunger for Wholeness https://christogenesis.org/podcast/.

Learn more at the Center for Christogenesis. https://christogenesis.org/

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