Sophia Center
Director: Jim Conlon
Sophia Center is a place to align your aspirations to the challenges presented by this new defining moment in human/earth relations.
For over two decades, our campus, in the wooded hills overlooking the San
Francisco Bay, has been a gathering place for people from many backgrounds and traditions to explore the profoundly changing human experience thatTeilhard de Chardin andThomas Berry foresaw.
Francisco Bay, has been a gathering place for people from many backgrounds and traditions to explore the profoundly changing human experience thatTeilhard de Chardin andThomas Berry foresaw.
At the Sophia Center in Culture and Spirituality scholars and seekers probe the remarkable contemporary convergence that is blending religion, art, science and justice into an all-embracing, global cosmology. This year, our degree-granting and community programs continue to expand, unfolding with ever-renewing commitment.
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©2010 Holy Names University—Sophia Center
3500 Mountain Blvd. Oakland, CA
800-794-8813 • sophicenter@mac.com
3500 Mountain Blvd. Oakland, CA
800-794-8813 • sophicenter@mac.com
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'A training camp for mystics': Sophia Center brings together thought and discussion from art, quantum physics, theology, ecology and healing
National Catholic Reporter, Sept 7, 2007 by Sharon Abercrombie
Brian Swimme, a mathematical cosmologist and coauthor with Fr. Thomas Berry of The Universe Story, took his audience on a walk through the cosmic neighborhood that night with an astronomy slide presentation showing the Rosette and Orion Nebulae and the Virgo Cluster of stars.
"These are the dynamics that gave birth to us," Swimme explained.
