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Theology Beer Camp 2025
“Quest for the Holy Stein” Theology Beer Camp 2025 is coming to St. Paul, Minnesota and online October 16-18, 2025 . T his year’s Monty...

Rick Bonetti
Apr 24, 20252 min read


Integral Christianity
Stages of Development used by Paul Smith in his book, “Integral Christianity” I have three books next to one another on my shelf:...

Rick Bonetti
Apr 16, 20253 min read


Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science
May 3-4, 2025 - The Center for Christogenesis is having their virtual 2025 Conference: Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science: From...

Rick Bonetti
Apr 11, 20251 min read


Evolving in a Shifting World
Sunday, April 13, 2025 , from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. PDT - A New Republic of the Heart is offering a webinar : Taking Responsibility for...

Rick Bonetti
Apr 6, 20252 min read


Responding to Cruelty, Bullying and Chaos
On March 17, 2025 Aspen Initiative (Wisdon From the Top of the World) offered a free webinar with some of the foremost non-dual thinkers (Tom Shriver, Marianne Williamson, Cynthia Bourgeault, Matthew Fox, Cyprian Consiglio, and Sherri Mitchell, moderated by Heather and Nicholas Vesey), addressing to the question: How do we respond to the time we are living through? During the webinar, they asked the question ‘How do we respond to the time we are living through?’ Some of

Rick Bonetti
Mar 29, 20252 min read


Harnessing the Energies of Love
Ilia Delio, in her February 2025 talk "Old God, New God, Part 2" , responded to a question by Susan Izard , retired spiritual director...

Rick Bonetti
Mar 28, 20251 min read


April 2025 Eco-Spiritual Calendar
Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley in-person, eco-spiritual activities that may be of interest to you. Check back, as...

Rick Bonetti
Mar 25, 20256 min read


InterSpiritual Unity Consciousness
Father Thomas Keating Father Thomas Keating (1923-2018) had a prophetic vision of Oneness as both an inner state of consciousness and an...

Rick Bonetti
Feb 27, 20254 min read


The Source of Hope
For nearly half of U.S. voters, the new year 2025 does not easily bring hope. The values expressed by the new administration about social justice issues and not addressing climate change are in conflict. New York Times/Ipsos polling , released January 18, 2025, shows significant cleavages around the upcoming administration, the economy, and immigration. News of polarization of societal values and environmental degradation may cause one to wonder about " human-nature ." Some b

Rick Bonetti
Jan 12, 20253 min read


Integral Worldview
Charles Taylor argued in his seminal work, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989), that our contemporary cultural landscape is characterized by a profound tension between modern and postmodern worldviews. In 2016, Nicholas Hedlund and Annick de Witt published research on how four major worldviews (traditional, modern, post-modern, and integral) in the Netherlands and the USA relate to climate change . They found that in both countries, people wit

Rick Bonetti
Dec 5, 20244 min read


Beauty, Truth & Goodness
In his 2007 book Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution: How the Integral Worldview Is Transforming Politics, Culture and...

Rick Bonetti
Dec 5, 20242 min read


Church of the Planet and a Theology of Evolution
In her 2020 book Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, Ilia Delio says: "The shift from the individual to the posthuman in the...

Rick Bonetti
Jul 19, 20242 min read


A Quaker New Story
Learn a New Story that is grounded in the sciences, animated by the humanities, and imbued with wisdom from Indigenous traditions and world

Rick Bonetti
Apr 18, 20242 min read


The Matter With Things
The Center for Process Studies (CPS )identifies itself as offering "a relational worldview for the common good. with a mission to foster...

Rick Bonetti
Apr 17, 20242 min read


Creating Cosmogenesis Through Art
April 11, 2023, at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. PDT on Zoom. - Join eco-spiritual artist/educator/filmmaker Imogene Drummond as she explores the...

Rick Bonetti
Apr 6, 20241 min read


Hope on the Edge, Beyond Boundaries
May 18, 19, 25. and 26, 2024 - The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, and the Human Energy Project are co-sponsoring a webinar series with Dr....

Rick Bonetti
Feb 21, 20242 min read


Consciousness Is Everywhere
This past fall, 2023 I took an OLLI course called Unraveling the Mysteries of Consciousness. John Kalb, the instructor defined...

Rick Bonetti
Jan 17, 20244 min read


An Unfinished God for a Techno-Driven World
This past weekend, I was a theology nerd with over 100 people watching online as Ilia Delio, John D. Caputo, Diarmuid O’Murchu, Catherine Keller, Bruce Epperly, Rami Shapiro, Brandon Ambrosino, and Emily DeMoor spoke at the God 2.0: Pantheism and Quantum Reality c onference organized by the Center for Christogenesis . It was only two weeks ago that I was dazzled by Ilia Delio and others at the N2 Conference on the Noosphere (the term coined by Teilhard de Chardin 100 ye

Rick Bonetti
Dec 5, 20234 min read


Science & Religion
Original art by Rick Bonetti from a photo of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In Andrew M. Davis and Phiip Clayton's 2018 book how I found GOD...

Rick Bonetti
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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