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Perspectives on Life’s Technologies
"Perspectives on Life’s Technologies" With Gayle Woloschak, PhD Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiology, and Cell and Molecular Biology Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University DMin, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary October 3, 2022 Online at 7:00 pm ET Register here for this Zoom meeting. Most ethical reflections on technology determine that the technology itself is neither good nor bad, but the uses of it determine its appropriate and inappropriate uses. This is the case for most beginning of life technologies including stem cell…
Find out more »Ecotheology, or Why Climate Crisis and Eco-Anxiety Require a Radically Different Kind of Theology
"Ecotheology, or Why Climate Crisis and Eco-Anxiety Require a Radically Different Kind of Theology" With Philip Clayton November 10, 2022 Online at 7:00pm EST Register here. If anything has been scientifically established, it’s anthropogenic climate change. As we learned this last summer, climate disruption means floods, droughts, and fires ― levels of social and economic disruption we could hardly have imagined a few decades ago. The result is eco-anxiety and a pervasive sense of hopelessness, especially in younger people. What resources are…
Find out more »Walking with Teilhard Through Advent: “Contemplating the Divine Milieu”
Walking with Teilhard Through Advent: “Contemplating the Divine Milieu” With Anita Wood, DMin November 29 – December 20, 2022 Tuesdays at 6:30 to 7:30pm Register directly with Anita Wood at msanitawood@verizon.net by November 10. A guided journey through Teilhard’s The Divine Milieu. Anita Wood will lead a contemplative dialogue on the material with a group of up to 8 participants. Participants will read sections of this book prior to each meeting and ponder questions which are provided by the facilitator…
Find out more »The Greatest Challenge: The Created Co-Creator Creates a Co-Creator
"The Greatest Challenge: The Created Co-Creator Creates a Co-Creator" With Philip Hefner, PhD Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago January 25, 2023 Online at 7:00 - 8:30pm View the flyer. Register here. Our technology began as toolmaking even when it turned to bioengineering and robotics. That is, it emerged and evolved to perform tasks for us. Recent developments suggest that it is entering a phase in which it is on its way to creating creatures that are in fact functioning…
Find out more »Alexa, do you love me? AI and Authentic Relationship
“Alexa, do you love me? AI and Authentic Relationship” With Noreen Herzfeld, PhD February 28, 2023 Online at 7pm ET View the flyer. Register here. We converse with increasingly intelligent programs such as Alexa and ChatGPT, but can we have a truly authentic relationship with them? What does it take to have such a relationship with another person, or with a non-human being such as a pet, an AI, or God? Can we love an AI and if we do,…
Find out more »Prophets of Hope in Calamitous Times: Julian of Norwich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Prophets of Hope in Calamitous Times: Julian of Norwich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin” With Joshua Canzona, PhD March 1, 2023 Online at 7pm EST View the flyer. Register here. Temptation to despair is strong in the present moment. War, political upheaval, economic uncertainty, and a global pandemic focus attention on surviving the day rather than building the future. Amidst such challenges, we can learn from those who persevered before us. We can turn toward those who sustained a…
Find out more »Can AI Systems Be Persons?
“Can AI Systems Be Persons?” With Anne Foerst, PhD March 21, 2023 Online at 7pm ET View the flyer. Register here. Humans have the tendency to treat anything that interacts with them as a person and we have the universal tendency to anthropomorphize. At the same time though, we are willing to treat humans as non-persons for which each genocide or war is an example. The new crop of Artificial Intelligences falls right into this tension. I will discuss some…
Find out more »American Teilhard Association Annual Event
American Teilhard Association Annual Event May 13, 2023 Online at 12 pm – 2:00 pm ET “Seeing: Gazing into the Cosmos through the Eyes of Vatican Astronomers” View the flyer. Register here. In the beginning of The Human Phenomenon, Teilhard tell us, “Seeing. One could say that the whole of life lies in seeing.” What better way to heed Teilhard’s imperative to SEE or to perish than to look contemplatively at the cosmos and to ask two Jesuit Astronomers…
Find out more »Teilhard, Jung, & Berry: Integrating Spirit, Psyche, and Earth
“Teilhard, Jung, & Berry: Integrating Spirit, Psyche, and Earth” With Andrew Del Rossi, Th.D. May 20, 2023 10am – 2:30pm Offering: $30 Daylesford Abbey 220 South Valley Road Paoli, PA 19301 View the flyer. Register here.
Find out more »Images of God in Teilhard and Merton
“Images of God in Teilhard and Merton” Guided by Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, PhD June 19-26, 2023 The Sisters of St. Joseph Center for Spirituality 21 Main Avenue, Ocean Grove, NJ Contact: S. Joannie Cassidy, 732-898-9981 July 9-15, 2023 Bon Secours Retreat & Conference Center 1525 Marriottsville Road Marriottsville, MD Contact: 410-442-3120 View the flyer.
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