The Metanexus Network began as a global constellation of interdisciplinary communities exploring foundational questions at the intersection of science and spirituality. Growing out of the Local Societies Initiative and later the Metanexus Global Network Initiative, these groups brought together scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars to engage questions of meaning, personhood, consciousness, and human purpose beyond the limits of any single discipline.
The original Network focused on two core commitments: dialogue between scientific and spiritual traditions, and transdisciplinary inquiry into the assumptions shaping human understanding. These communities served as spaces for rigorous conversation, intellectual experimentation, and resistance to fragmentation driven by excessive specialization.
Today, Metanexus carries this legacy forward while expanding its scope. As cultural, technological, and existential pressures reshape what it means to be human, the Network is evolving into a broader ecology of communities exploring new ways of being human. Building on its foundational roots, the renewed Network emphasizes lived inquiry, experimentation, and creative engagement with emerging forms of knowledge, practice, and community.
The Metanexus Network is no longer only a site of dialogue, but a space for shared exploration—where inherited questions meet present realities, and new possibilities are allowed to take shape.
Metanexus Groups
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A Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion for the Greater Grand Rapids Area
Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan An outgrowth of a faculty discussion group founded in 1997, composed of faculty from departments of physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, philosophy, history and campus ministry at Grand Valley, this effort now invites participation through an inter-institutional advisory board to expand programs with partner institutions in the area. Religious backgrounds
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Aachen Science and Religion Network
Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen Chair for Systematic Theology, Faculty of Philosophy University of AachenAachen Founded in 2002, this group combines membership representing five institutions, including both academic and religious-based organizations. The primary aim of the core membership is to make interdisciplinary themes accessible to the broader public by planning and hosting educational
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Academy-Dialogue
International Higher Education Academy of Science Moscow An interdisciplinary and inter-confessional organization, IHEAS holds more than 30 international, national, and regional conferences, workshops, symposia and other scientific and educational forums each year. As a new comprehensive “section” of their current work, the Academy-Dialogue program organizes public lectures and seminars on the history and current state