The American Teilhard Association Podcast

Kathleen is a Sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame and a theologian, spiritual teacher, author, and songwriter of contemporary liturgical and contemplative music. She was composer-in-residence for Schola Ministries at the former Benedictine Grange for 40 years and is the founding director of the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit at Iona University, where she continues to serve as Emerita Professor of Religious Studies.Links:https://www.iona.edu/academics/schools-institutes/kathleen-deignan-cnd-institute-earth-and-spirithttps://www.instagram.com/kpdeignan/https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.deignanhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeyGG2o20TkjWxpDiE9up_ghttps://www.instagram.com/earth_and_spirit_/Sacred Synergy Links:SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCd-fU57fNgLb2YgYCClNgKg Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacred-synergy/id1849705791Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rq1QfhjbYook8Jcdr0GE5?si=E4-1wTrLTC6iZQ-k1Zp7ewInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/Paulist Spring/Summer 2026: https://www.paulistpress.com/Promotions/catalogs/PP_Trade_Catalog.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawREzrFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFuQkdjeFJjVHA5N2I5OUhPc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiEwEHr-Oe4a-q68JZ3lvHqz1D0KygP7M-Wd9HamBdmNn3EM4PXU6gBqXJ5z_aem_AIVF8ks7Y8BMUaqM5CUxIw

Angela Manno is an award-winning artist based in Scotland. She is a graduate of Bard College and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, and l’Ecole des Arts in Lacoste through Sarah Lawrence College, France. She trained with master iconographer Vladislav Andrejev in the ancient liturgical art of Byzantine-Russian iconography.A three-time grant recipient from the Xerox Corporation, Manno’s art has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and other museums around the world. In 1988, Manno was commissioned by NASA to commemorate the U.S. return to space flight with the launch of Discovery, the first after the Challenger accident. She is the only female visual artist selected for this honor. Other artists to capture the novelty of space travel for the space agency include Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Wyeth. Her artwork for this assignment has toured throughout the United States and is part of the permanent NASA space art collection at the Kennedy Space Center. Manno’s major solo exhibition, Conscious Evolution: The World At One, toured internationally and was seen by more than a quarter of a million people. With the support of private and corporate sponsors—including actor Tom Hanks, AXA Space, and Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia—the artwork featured in the exhibition became part of the permanent fine art collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.In May 2022, Manno was commissioned by the Vatican Dicastery on Integral Human Development to create an audio-visual program to open Laudato Si’ Week 2022, the seven-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking encyclical. The program, Responding to the Cry of the Earth, featured images from her series Contemporary Icons of Endangered Species and appeared on computer screens around the world as part of the global event No More Biodiversity Collapse: Rebalancing Social Systems with Nature. Manno’s artwork has been noted in numerous publications, including NPR, Hyperallergic, National Wildlife Magazine, TNational Catholic Reporter, The Progressive, Sojourners, ART News, Treehugger, Smithsonian Online Magazine, Kosmos and a nine-page spread in The Artful Mind, the premier art magazine of the Berkshires. Her plein air landscapes are featured in the French documentary film Voyage au Pays des Lavandes (Journey to Lavender Country). Her art is also featured in two coffee table books, Visions of Space and In the Stream of Stars: The Soviet American Space Art Book, and on the cover of the forthcoming volume, Animal Dignity. Manno’s current series, Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species, applies her iconographic training to a contemporary exploration of the environmental crisis and biodiversity collapse.Links:Website: https://angelamanno.com/Sacred Biodiversity Oracle: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sacred-Biodiversity-Oracle/Angela-Manno/9781591435037Beyond Factory Farming: https://orbisbooks.com/products/beyond-factory-farming-a-contemplative-prophetic-approach-to-food?_pos=4&_sid=89bf9dd41&_ss=rCome, Have Breakfast: https://orbisbooks.com/products/come-have-breakfast-meditations-on-god-and-the-earth-copy?_pos=2&_sid=37e1df777&_ss=rSacred Synergy Links:SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCd-fU57fNgLb2YgYCClNgKg Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacred-synergy/id1849705791Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rq1QfhjbYook8Jcdr0GE5?si=E4-1wTrLTC6iZQ-k1Zp7ewInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, D.C. and is a prominent theologian, author, and speaker on Teilhard de Chardin and the themes of religion and science. She currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Ilia has doctorates in pharmacology and Historical theology. She is the recipient of a Templeton Course in Science and Religion award and the author of twenty-two books, which have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and German. Ilia is the founder of the Center for Christogenesis and lectures nationally and internationally on topics including evolution, artificial intelligence, consciousness, culture and religion.Website: https://idelio.clasit.org/Center for Christogenesis: https://christogenesis.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerforchristogenesis/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CenterforChristogenesisYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtG5NEkECaDTqObZPF0g0gSacred Synergy Links:SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCd-fU57fNgLb2YgYCClNgKg Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacred-synergy/id1849705791Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rq1QfhjbYook8Jcdr0GE5?si=E4-1wTrLTC6iZQ-k1Zp7ewInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Brian McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a faculty member with the Center for Action and Contemplation and a podcaster with the CAC’s podcast, Learning How to See.He is a co-host of the Southern Lights Conference and supports a new progressive ecumenical campus ministry network called ZOE. He has written more than 20 books, including his newest, The Last Voyage (2025), the first installment in a science fiction trilogy. Brian also mentions his book, Life After Doom, a few times, which speaks to this era of multi-crisis and how we are called to a more compassionate and contemplative perspective in approaching these often complex issues.Brian is married to Grace, and they have four adult children and five grandchildren. They live near the Gulf of Mexico in SW Florida, and Brian’s personal interests include wildlife and ecology, fly fishing and kayaking, music and songwriting, and literature.Website: www.brianmclaren.netFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-D-McLaren/65814657989?ref=tsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_mclaren/Podcast: Learning How to See https://cac.org/podcast/learning-how-to-see/Sacred Synergy Links:SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCd-fU57fNgLb2YgYCClNgKg Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacred-synergy/id1849705791Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rq1QfhjbYook8Jcdr0GE5?si=E4-1wTrLTC6iZQ-k1Zp7ewInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/

Paula Guarnaccia's primary work is in partnership with her husband, the composer, Sam Guarnaccia. Together they created the Emergent Universe Oratorio Project which is a choral orchestral musical rendering of the story of our evolving Universe to the present day. It was inspired both by the work of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry. Paula Guarnaccia is the current Treasurer of the American Teilhard Association. She has been an active member of ATA since 2012. Her background is in administration in both higher education and healthcare.Sam Guarnaccia is a composer, classical guitarist, scholar, and founder/director of Sam Guarnaccia Music. He studied privately at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and received a Master of Fine Arts in Guitar performance from the California Institute of the Arts. He created and, for ten years, taught and directed the guitar program of the University of Denver’s renowned Lamont School of Music. He has also taught and instituted programs at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, as Spanish scholar, player/performer, and composer.https://samguarnaccia.com/ Sacred Synergy Links:SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@UCd-fU57fNgLb2YgYCClNgKg Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacred-synergy/id1849705791Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rq1QfhjbYook8Jcdr0GE5?si=E4-1wTrLTC6iZQ-k1Zp7ewInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/earth_psyche_spirit/Website: https://andrewdelrossi.com/#sacred #evolution #spirituality #language #biosphere #earth #fractal #music #composer #conversation #emergence #universe #oratorio

Tess Elia is a spiritual director whose practice centers on finding God in all things and is informed by her life experiences which include a career in healthcare, hospice pastoral care, university teaching and mentoring and raising three children. Trained in Spiritual Direction at the Murphy Center for Ignatian Spirituality of Fairfield University and certified in Giving the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius (19th Annotation), Tess welcomes the opportunity to be your companion on the journey to discovering the graces of God in your life.Connect with Tess online: https://www.unitivespiritualdirection.com/

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Wilmington, as she explores the intersection of religion, technology, and the mysterious world of UFOs (now UAPs).From academic insight to cosmic curiosity, Dr. Pasulka challenges the boundaries of belief and science in a way that is authentically speculative, exploratory, and expansive.Dr. Pasulka’s research focuses on religion, technology, and emerging religious movements. She has authored a series of acclaimed books, including:Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences (2024), American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology (2019), and Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture (2014).https://dwpasulka.com/IG: @dwpasulkaX: @dwpasulka

Marie Bayon de La Tour is the great-niece of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. Her background is in Natural Sciences, and she currently teaches Life and Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences at the primary and secondary school levels. Marie is Secretary General of the Association of Nephews of Teilhard de Chardin, Vice-President if the Association of Friends of Father Teilhard de Chardin, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation. Marie is a wife, mother, grandmother, and author.As quoted: “Here I am contemplating the rolling wooded hills, the Limagne plain, and the Puys (volcanoes) on the horizon” -Teilhard wrote to his brother Joseph, Marie’s grandfather."The Feminine": Le Féminin, avenir du mondeÂ: Deux vies en conversation, Marguerite Teillard-Chambon et son cousin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:https://www.amazon.com/F%C3%A9minin-avenir-monde%C3%82-conversation-Teillard-Chambon/dp/2364525977?ref_=ast_author_mpbTeilhard Project: https://www.teilhardproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AN-ESSAY-BY-MARIE-BAYON-DE-LA-TOUR.pdf

In the third installment of a three part conversation on Teilhard and Jung, Dr. Andrew Del Rossi and Dr. Thomas Legere discuss the emergent wisdom found in the integration of the theories of the two visionaries.

In the first of three conversations, podcast host, Dr. Andrew Del Rossi, and psychologist, Dr. Thomas Legere, explore the convergences and divergences along with the emergence of wisdom and insight from the thought of Teilhard de Chardin and Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

Jason Willits deployed with the US Army to the highways of Iraq one year after the invasion, the battle of Fallujah, and the Abu Ghraib scandal. He was also deployed to Afghanistan at the start of the largest Special Operations mission since Vietnam: training and arming the Afghan Local Polic in 2011. Osama Bin Laden was killed halfway through his Afghan tour. He is currently developing Resilience Training for AmeriCorps through the Delaware State Office of Volunteerism while completing a Masters in Theology through his Antiochian Orthodox Diocese.

Louis Savary, PhD, STD, holds two doctorates, one in mathematical statistics and another in theology. He was a Jesuit for thirty years, and for the past forty years has been explaining Teilhard’s ideas in ordinary language. He has published over eight books on Teilhard, including “The Divine Milieu” Explained and “The Phenomenon of Man” Explained. He has written The New Spiritual Exercises: In the Spirit of Teilhard de Chardin, bringing Teilhard’s evolutionary perspective to the classic Ignatian Exercises. He has also written essays for Teilhard Studies. He lives with his wife and, often, co-author, Patricia H. Berne, a clinical psychologist, in Tampa, Florida.