Hunger for Wholeness

In this episode Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview theologian, philosopher,  and award-winning author of 'Pluriform Love.' Thomas Oord outlines the following:

⁃                What is love in a culture where love is “all over the place”?

⁃                Love as: friendship, self-sacrifice, romantic, care for nature, emotions, etc

⁃                What is the relationship between love and social media?

 
Thomas Jay Oord, Ph.D., directs the doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary. He also directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology (c4ort.com). Oord has written or edited more than 30 books and blogs regularly at thomasjayoord.com.

"We make progress in theology and in life if we make love primary: God's love and ours." 

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In this Part 2 episode Hosts, Ilia Delio and Gabby Sloan interview Teacher, Author, Activist, Catherine Keller as they discuss the following themes:

•  What story pulls us onward and gives us something to live for?
• How do we encounter that we are a planetary species?  What does this mean for how we live 
• Humility and the apophatic tradition: we cannot know an infinite God. In humility, we recognize that any idea of deeper “truth” is beyond us 

About:
Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in The Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She works amidst the tangles of ecosocial, pluralist, feminist philosophy of religion and theology. Her recent books include: Face of the Deep: a Theology of Becoming;  Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public; and Facing Apocalypse:  Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances.

“In a universe of intersecting intersections, might we mobilize our deep entanglement for sustainable justice and loving creativity?”

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In this episode Hosts, Ilia Delio and Gabby Sloan interview Teacher, Author, Activist, Catherine Keller as they discuss the following themes:

•  Can the crisis of our time open us to new revelations that embrace the past yet are open to newness? 
• Who does God become when we begin to think more deeply about the depth and interconnectedness of God?
• Democratizing religion — how can we make religion communal to transform institutions?

Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in The Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She works amidst the tangles of ecosocial, pluralist, feminist philosophy of religion and theology. Her recent books include: Face of the Deep: a Theology of Becoming;  Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public; and Facing Apocalypse:  Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances.

“In a universe of intersecting intersections, might we mobilize our deep entanglement for sustainable justice and loving creativity?”

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A huge thank you to all of you who subscribe and support our show!

Support for A Hunger for Wholeness comes from the Fetzer Institute. Fetzer supports a movement of organizations who are applying spiritual solutions to society's toughest problems. Get involved at fetzer.org.

Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.

In this episode Hosts, Ilia Delio and Gabby Sloan interview Author, Teacher, Activist, Phil Clayton as they discuss the following themes in Part Two of the interview:

Visit Phil Clayton's website for more information online at Phil Clayton.

“What actions can we take across the sectors of society in order to turn the structures of human life on this planet toward a genuinely ecological civilization? How can we all ― scholars and activists, secular and religious leaders, the private sector as well as the public ― begin to live and think the way our grandchildren will have to live and think?” - Phil Clayton

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Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.

In this episode Hosts, Ilia Delio and Gabby Sloan interview Author, Teacher, Activist, Phil Clayton as they discuss the following themes:

“If as individuals, tribes, and cultures, we are in continual development; if our planet, and indeed our very universe, continually evolves into newness; then how can we not imagine that the Christ would also be a part of a cosmic becoming?” Phil Clayton

Philip Clayton, Ingraham Professor at Claremont School of Theology, writes and speaks widely on the evolution of human consciousness and spirituality. Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies (ctr4process.org) and author or editor of two dozen books and some 300 articles, he advocates for an evolutionary metaphysics and ethics beyond the old “warfare” of science and theology. Increasingly, he is being drawn to the intersection of climate science, ethics, religion ― ecotheology.

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A huge thank you to all of you who subscribe and support our show!

Support for A Hunger for Wholeness comes from the Fetzer Institute. Fetzer supports a movement of organizations who are applying spiritual solutions to society's toughest problems. Get involved at fetzer.org.

Visit the Center for Christogenesis' website at christogenesis.org/podcast to browse all Hunger for Wholeness episodes and read more from Ilia Delio.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for episode releases and other updates.