Hunger for Wholeness

Ilia Delio and Robert Nicastro interview Orgin of Life Scientist, Dr. Bruce Damer (Part One) on the following topics:About Dr. Bruce Damer:Astrobiologist Dr. Bruce Damer investigates the chemical mechanism of life's origins and its implications for evolutionary biology, technology, and culture, including philosophy and our sense of place in the cosmos. He serves as chief scientist at the BIOTA Institute, researcher at UC Santa Cruz, designer of spacecraft for NASA, and has a lifelong interest in the sources of creative breakthroughs.“Can we develop a ‘unified field theory’ which explains both life's emergence and consciousness experience? Dr. Bruce DamerFor more information visit his website: https://www.damer.com/Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview Dr. Anne Kull (Part Two) on the following topics:Can we become one family by using technology?Can we use technology to deepen our connection with nature?How can we live in hope?Anne Kull studied at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (M.A., M.Th., Ph.D.). Since 2000 back in Estonia. She is professor of systematic theology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research areas are science/technology/nature and religion; theological anthropology, particularly gender studies and theology.“Our nature is technonature, our culture is technoculture, and we are cyborgs.”Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

Hosts Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview Dr. Anne Kull on the following topics:What is techno-culture?The way we use language can create openness.What is a cyborg?We are nature, but nature is not what we think it is.Anne Kull studied at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (M.A., M.Th., Ph.D.). Since 2000 back in Estonia. She is professor of systematic theology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research areas are science/technology/nature and religion; theological anthropology, particularly gender studies and theology.“Our nature is technonature, our culture is technoculture, and we are cyborgs.”Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

Hosts Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview Dr. David Sloan Wilson about these topics: (Part Two)Where do power and authority reside in evolving prosocial unity?Religion and science can help to create the motivation, structure, and meaningful unity/belonging. The integration of religion and science create the openness of earth and humanity to their fullest potential for life and a futureAbout Dr. David Sloan Wilson:David Sloan Wilson is one of the foremost evolutionary thinkers and gifted communicators about evolution to the general public. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology Emeritus at Binghamton University and President of the nonprofit organization Prosocial World, whose mission is “to consciously evolve a world that works for all.” His most recent books are This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups (with Paul Atkins and Steven C. Hayes), and his first novel, Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III. “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

Hosts Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan interview Dr. David Sloan Wilson about these topics: What is the puzzle of altruism in Darwinian Evolution?Religion as the optimization of life in evolutionTechnology has enhanced the speed of evolution, propelling us into "the noosphere" yet we do not know how to live there.About Dr. David Sloan Wilson:David Sloan Wilson is one of the foremost evolutionary thinkers and gifted communicators about evolution to the general public. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology Emeritus at Binghamton University and President of the nonprofit organization Prosocial World, whose mission is “to consciously evolve a world that works for all.” His most recent books are This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups (with Paul Atkins and Steven C. Hayes), and his first novel, Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III. “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.” Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

In this episode Hosts, Ilia Delio and Gabby Sloan interview Author,  Speaker,  Coach, Sheri Kling in (Part Two) as they discuss the following themes:How do we trust in the flow of life?Is God changed by us?What are you afraid of?Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D., is an author, speaker, singer, and spiritual mentor who draws from wisdom and mystical traditions, relational worldviews, depth psychology, and the intersection of spirituality and science to help people find meaning, belonging, and transformation. She is Director of Process & Faith and the John Cobb Legacy Fund and a faculty member of the Haden Institute. Her work can be found at www.sherikling.com.“When we join Whitehead, Jung, and a spiritual practice of dream work, we experience for ourselves that at both the levels of the cosmos and of the psyche, we matter, we belong, and we can experience positive change.” Sheri KlingSupport the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

Author, speaker, and spiritual mentor Sheri Kling discusses the soul, life after death, and our connection to matter. She explores unity and transformation amidst societal fragmentation, the essence of the soul, interconnectedness with the cosmos, embracing the divine feminine in a rural haven, and the balance between materiality and spirituality.

Join Ilia Delio and Gabi Sloan on Hunger for Wholeness, (Part 2), of the interview with theologian, philosopher, award winning author,  of 'Pluriform' Thomas Oord.  In this episode we discuss:What does it mean for love to always hope? How is God changed by human love? How is love inherently free?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." Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

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." Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.

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?”Support the showA 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, Instagram and Twitter for episode releases and other updates.