Ilia Delio, OSF holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. She is the author of eighteen books and numerous articles. She lectures nationally and internationally on various topics in Science and Religion, including religion and evolution, consciousness and complexity, integral ecology, and artificial intelligence. Her most recent book is "The Hours of the Universe: Reflections on God, Science, and the Human Journey" (Orbis).

She discusses her research and teaching, focusing on a number of core questions: How did we arrive at a level of technological dependence? Where are we going with our technologies? What is the human person? What do we hope for as persons and as community? Can technology help us create a more unified world?

Devin Singh is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on modern religious thought in the West, social ethics, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford 2018), as well as of articles on religion and money appearing in Implicit Religion, Political Theology, and The Huffington Post.

He discusses his research and approach to teaching "Religion and Technology" by interrogating the following questions:

In what ways is technology a response to the difficulties of labor and work, the biological limitations of bodies and lifespans, or the unpredictable forces of nature, for instance? What do Western religious and philosophical traditions have to say about such forms of augmentation of life capacities and processes? What promises and perils arise from technological progress? Why is the problem of technology seemingly central to the question of modernity, and how does religion fit in, if at all?