The American Teilhard Association Podcast

Tom Bazis is the founder, owner, and creative genius behind FloatSNJ, New Jersey’s premier flotation therapy facility, located in Evesham, NJ. Tom is also the owner and founder of Fire and Ice X in Maple Shade, NJ, which features contrast therapy through sauna, cold plunge, and steam room. Tom’s ingenuity extends beyond these two businesses to include the custom designs that he has created for cli...

Andrew M. Davis, PhD is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of the cosmos.  He is research and academic director for the Center for Process Studies where he researches, writes, teaches, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning in a hospitable universe, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systemat...

Robert Nicastro, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Center for Christogenesis and is a theologian, teacher, and writer whose research explores the convergence of religion, science, and artificial intelligence. His work focuses on how emerging technologies are reshaping human identity, planetary consciousness, and the future of religious thought. His doctoral dissertation,  The Future as Sole Su...

Joan grew up in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and her Mennonite upbringing created a heart for the world. She and her husband and three children lived in Indonesia for 13 years. Upon returning to the United States Joan taught English as a foreign language to adults in her Lancaster County, Pennsylvania community. Currently, Joan is exploring new avenues of faith and volunteering at Lancaster city’s wel...

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...

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 Police in 2011. Osama Bin Laden was killed halfway through his Afghan tour. He has most recently worked to devel...

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...

Ernie Tamminga is a trained Spiritual Director and holds a PhD in Cross-Cultural Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied for five years with Raimon Panikkar. His dissertation focused on Teilhard’s notion of a “Privileged Axis” of evolution. During the 1970s he was a member of the board of “The Phenomenon of Man Project,” which offered presentations and...

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 a...

Thomas Legere, PhD, CAS, has a background that includes degrees in philosophy, theology, and spirituality—in addition to a PhD in psychology—offering a perspective that is truly holistic. The author of three books, and a frequent speaker on television, Tom has offered workshops in psycho-spiritual growth and counseled hundreds of people over a 40 year plus career. Tom continues to offer spiritual...

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...

Travis Gray, PhD, MACP is a Transpersonal Psychologist who is passionate about the transformation of people into wholly integrated and actualized individuals. Growing up, Travis was constantly in and out of jail. He had found himself in a vicious cycle that needed to be broken so it would not continue throughout his life. In 2013, he took a train and moved to the Bay Area with a dream of transform...

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 Teil...

John Keane has over 25 years of experience in practicing and teaching BioSpiritual Focusing, a spiritual practice and process of embodiment. BioSpirituality had such an impact on his life that he changed career from working in the Health Insurance Industry, to studying the philosophy and practice of the Focusing Process. John took a BA in Philosophy in the Jesuit University, Milltown Park, in Dubl...

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 o...

Christine M. Tracy is a writer, journalist, rhetorician, and Teilhardian scholar. She holds a Ph. D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,where she studied the evolution of media and worked as a founding editor of oneof the web’s first e-zine. She is a member of the Council of Scholar Advisors for The Teilhard Project and has published scholarly essays exploring Teilhard’s relationship to progres...

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....

John F. Haught, PhD is a Distinguished Research Professor from Georgetown University in Washington, DC where he was Professor in the Department of Theology (1970-2005) and Chair (1990-95). His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion. Haught has authored over twenty books on these topics....

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 membe...

Dr. Ernie Tamminga, PhD is a trained Spiritual Director and holds a PhD in Cross-Cultural Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During the 1970s he was a member of the board of “The Phenomenon of Man Project,” which offered presentations and retreats centered on Teilhard’s vision. Ernie also had a career in the technology industry and has taught university-level cours...

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 second part of a three part conversation on Teilhard and Jung, Dr. Andrew Del Rossi and Dr. Thomas Legere discuss the thought and vision of each thinker and then talk about each man's encounter with institutions.

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.

Frank and Mary Frost   are independent documentary filmmakers with more than 35 years of experience. Frank earned his PhD in Cinema from the University of Southern California. Mary is a journalism graduate of the University of Toledo and was a syndicated reporter on Capitol Hill before joining Frank Frost Productions. The Frosts recently produced a film on the life of Teilhard de Chardin for publi...

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...