What This Is

The Jesuit scientist Teilhard de Chardin used the expression “everything that rises must converge” to explain the workings of evolution in a divinely ordered universe.  Flannery O'Connor made it the title of an extraordinary story about people in conflict in the South “& indeed in all the world.”  Here we bring together ideas, stories, images, and beliefs from Georgetown’s Hilltop campus and the wider world, for everything that rises …