Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit and paleontologist, is one of

the heavyweight Christian mystics we need to know and integrate in our

times. Teilhard died in 1955 but he left a vast body of work that

profoundly named the earth as hallowed ground.

Teilhard scholar Ursula King says, “For Teilhard the heart of God is found

at the heart of the world, and the living, natural world is shot through

with the presence of the divine, with what he eventually was to call ‘the

divine milieu.’”