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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Montana Symposium on Religion and Science
University of Great Falls Great Falls, Montana The Montana Symposium is the successor organization to an informal group consisting of faculty and staff who meet to discuss issues of science and faith in integrated learning communities on the campus. Membership consists of representatives of both hard- and soft-sciences and the humanities, including theology, religion, biology,
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Morningside Heights Dialogue on Science and Religion
Center for the Study of Science and Religion Columbia University New York, New York This three-fold proposal involves Columbia faculty, area faculty, and the surrounding community in bridging “the gap between the academy and the community by facilitating science and religion dialogue on three levels.” The first tier involves the development of an advisory committee,
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Naturwissenschaft und Glaube e.V. (Natural Science and Religious Belief)
Köln As part of a nonprofit organization in existence since 2001, this society brings together members to organize weekend seminars and lectures to promote public discourse with academics and researchers in the fields of science and theology in cooperation with educational institutions, parishes, and other religious organizations. The “Natural Science and Theology” group is associated