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New episodes every other Monday. Story matters. We turn to one another to learn more stories than we could imagine alone. Join us!

Thoughtful dialogues between leading voices across disciplines—thinkers at the intersection of faith, science, and spiritual transformation helping us imagine a future rooted in the pursuit of wholeness. Our lives are shaped around immersive, powerful stories that thrive at the heart of our religious traditions, scientific inquiries, and cultural landscapes. Within these big stories that shape our

beliefs and movement through the world are also smaller stories – those television shows that we wind down watching, social media channels through which we laugh and connect, books that invite us into stories, and our personal stories shared face-to-face. All stories – big and small – point toward our fundamental hunger for wholeness, understanding, and love. Behind all these stories is a unity of love. Not a unity that is closed and exclusive, but a union that differentiates. Not a love that is simply romantic, but a love that connects us across our differences and helps us discover a way of flourishing together at a global scale. This podcast series seeks to explore questions of hunger or yearning for wholeness by examining cultural activities and the ways science, religion are woven into them. What does reality television tell us about our desires for love? What can a sitcom show us about belonging to a whole? How do new social media apps reveal emergent personhood? Will artificial intelligence and religion cooperate to enhance the quality of our global connections? Each episode uses an example from cultural favorites – such as a TV show, novel, music or art piece, or social media app – as a lens to explore the questions that emerge from our religious traditions and beliefs and the ways science enhances or challenges those beliefs. Companioned by experts, we examine how our culture reveals a desire for love at the center of the universe and how religion and science cooperate to bring that love alive.

06/23/2025

Can a scientific worldview help us move beyond patriarchy and tribalism?

In this week’s episode of Hunger for Wholeness, Sr. Ilia Delio is joined by independent scholar Jared Morningstar for a conversation that spans Islamic philosophy, process thought, and the deep tension—and potential—between science and religious tradition.

Drawing on the visionary work of Muhammad Iqbal and others, Jared explores how science and spirituality, rather than being at odds, can come together in service of interfaith renewal and social transformation—especially when it comes to the experiences of women within patriarchal religious structures.

“Almost everything worthwhile which has accumulated in any religious tradition was, in its own time, a striking ingression of fresh creativity—a creativity, of course, in contact with the self-same wellspring of inspiration at the root of the founding moments of the tradition in question.” – Jared Morningstar

Available now on all major podcast platforms or at christogenesis.org.

06/16/2025

Why does injustice feel so coordinated—and goodness so scattered?

Adam reminds us of the liberatory insight: organized evil outweighs disorganized good. In a quantum age—how can our sometimes fragmented good take shape and become more whole?

06/12/2025

God within us and beyond us—a challenging knot to untie, powering reflection for the ages.

As Sr. Ilia and Adam enter the heart of Christian mysticism to rethink where divinity dwells, Adam uses the term “infused deity”—a vision of God that’s not limited to the heavens above, but alive in our being and the world around us.

06/09/2025

Can quantum physics shape a new ethical vision? In Part 2 of their conversation theologian Adam Clark asks Sr. Ilia exactly this question. Together they unpack how liberation theology confronts modern structures of technological power—and whether ethics can emerge from the strange logic of the quantum world.

“We're raised in a dualism... our habits of thought prevent us from seeing reality clearly.” — Adam Clark

06/05/2025

Liberation—not just release, but creation.

06/02/2025

Is human liberation, ecological liberation?

Sr. Ilia and Adam reflect on King's enduring vision of the Beloved Community and how it sets the stage for a new paradigm that includes all life.

05/30/2025

What happens when theology starts with survival?

In her conversation with Adam, Sr. Ilia explores how Black theology, like liberation theologies, emerged not as a system, but as a response to injustice. Adam calls it a “guerrilla theology”—an urgent, creative act of resistance rooted in real life.

05/26/2025

What is Black theology—and what future(s) does it imagine?

In this week’s episode of Hunger for Wholeness, Sr. Ilia speaks with theologian Adam Clark, a student of the late James Cone and a leading voice in the ongoing development of liberation theology.

Together, they explore the roots of Black theology, its role in the Christian tradition, and how theology can break beyond academic boundaries to speak to real life.

“To be filled with God is a great thing; to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.” — Adam Clark

05/12/2025

In the second part of their interview, Ilia Delio speaks with biophysicist Gregory Stock about the complexity and history of technology’s role in evolution. Together, they explore whether our motivations and ethics should shape technology—and how technology, including AI, is beginning to shape human personhood, education, and politics.

🎧 Available on all podcast platforms or at christogenesis.org/podcast

04/28/2025

In Part 1 of their conversation, Ilia Delio speaks with biophysicist Gregory Stock about the inspiration behind his book Metaman and the implications of technology for the future of humanity and the planet. Together, they explore why technological evolution feels so destabilizing—and whether AI could help protect us or guide us into life beyond Earth.

🎧 Available on all podcast platforms or at christogenesis.org/podcast

“As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves—and we will do so. No laws will stop this.” –Gregory Stock

04/21/2025

"This is hope, right?
This is joy.
This is hope.
There is a future that God is not disinterested in." — Pete Enns (in Part 2)

Here's some hope-full energy for the beginning of your week!

04/18/2025

Scripture doesn't harms or heal on its own—it’s how it's read, taught, wielded. Sr. Ilia and Pete cut to the core in their discussion: the danger is in the what's attached to scripture by those who wield it cynically, weaponize or romanticize it.

"It’s not the Bible—it’s what people have understood the Bible to be." — Pete Enns

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