Meeting Recordings - 2022

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DECEMBER

12/20

Incarnational Adventures

Jay McDaniel, Chair of the Cobb Institute board, and Emeritus Professor of world religions at Hendrix College

Mary Elizabeth Moore, Former Dean of Boston University School of Theology

Renny Golden, Emeritus Professor of Northeastern Illinois University

12/13

The Moth and the Alligator: Relationship in a Whole Other Key

Tink Tinker, Citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe), and Professor Emeritus at Iliff School of Theology

12/6

Healing in a Chinese Process Way

Zhenbao Jin, PhD in Philosophy of Law at China University of Politics and Law, and researcher and teacher of meditation

NOVEMBER

11/29

Well-Being in Pomona: A Community in Progress

Jeremy Fackenthal, Managing Director of the Institute for Ecological Civilization

Lina Mira, Executive Director of the Latino-Latina Roundtable in Pomona

11/22

Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety

John Buchanan, certified Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof, and contributing coeditor for Rethinking Consciousness: Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science (2020)

11/15

Big Bang? Multiple Universes? How Do Scientists Know?

Tim Eastman, author of Untying the Gordian Knot and co-editor of Physics and Whitehead: Quantum, Process, and Experience.

Matt Segall, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the School of Consciousness and Transformation in the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Science Advisory Committee Chair at the Cobb Institute

11/8

Decolonizing Ecology: Process Ontology and Societal Relationships with Nature

Barbara Muraca, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon

11/1

Rosemary Radford Ruether Tribute

Scholars and friends who worked closely with this eminent ecofeminist theologian pay tribute to the ways her thought found expression in her actions. Those who share their experiences are Renny Golden, Antoinette Wire, Barbara Troxell, Joann Carlson Brown, Elaine Padilla, Kathy Bergen, and Janice Poss.

OCTOBER

10/25

Theology of Consent: Mimetic Theory in an Open and Relational Universe

Jonathan Foster, author and graduate of the doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary

10/18

Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War

Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author, activist, and Presbyterian pastor

10/11

From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology

Andrew M. Davis, Program Director of the Center for Process Studies

10/4

Astrobiology, Cosmotheology, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology

Steven J. Dick, former Chief Historian of NASA and Director of the NASA History Office

SEPTEMBER

9/27

Engaging with the Soul(s) of the City: Lessons from Dallas, Saint Paul, New York and Los Angeles

Mark VanderSchaaf, Former economic planner for the City of Saint Paul in Minnesota

9/20

Religion and Ecological Crisis

Md. Abu Sayem, Associate Professor in World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka

9/13

2022-09-13 - Evaggelos Vallianatos - crop

Brewing Climate Chaos and Pandemics in Our Backyards

Evaggelos Vallianatos, Historian and Environmental Strategist who worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years

9/6

The Biblical Narrative and Universal God Identity

Sheri D. Kling, Director of Process & Faith and the John Cobb Legacy Fund

Doug King, CEO of Presence

AUGUST

8/30

Teaching at Twilight – The Meaning of Education in the Age of Collapse

Ahmed Afzaal, Associate Professor of Religion, Concordia College in Minnesota

8/23

Ideas in Process: Ten Whiteheadian Transitions

Andrew M. Davis, Program Director of the Center for Process Studies

8/16

Networking Toward World Unity

Ben Bowler, Executive Director of Unity Earth

8/9

Bringing Hope to Our Future

Pauline Doty, Chaplain, Speaker, Author, Advocate

JULY

7/12

Untrolling America: What Trump Gets Right and Democrats Get Wrong About White America

Thandeka, President and Founder of Love Beyond Belief™

7/5

Learning to Befriend Nature in a Beijing Eco-Village

Heran Gao, Founder and Coordinator of Earth Village Nature School, in Xin Village, Beijing

JUNE

6/28

2022-06-28 - Franklin Obeng-Odoom - crop

The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society

Franklin Obeng Odoom, Associate Professor of Global Development Studies at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki in Finland

6/21

Undoing Conquest: Reimagining Sacred Origins and Utopic Destinations

Kate Common, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at the Methodist Theological School of Ohio

6/14

Jorge Pixley's Liberating Process Theology: A Tribute

6/7

Organic Panentheism: A Northeast Asian Lens on the Christian God

Dongwoo Lee, Korea Project Director for the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for Ecological Civilization

MAY

5/31

The Compassionate Cities Movement: A Next Step in Human Evolution

Laura Burgis, President & CEO of the Human Values Center

5/24

Process Philosophy and Me

Isobel Zhang, China Director of ACTAsia

Recording Unavailable

5/17

Relating Psychedelics to Process Philosophy

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Research Fellow in Philosophy and Psychedelics at the University of Exeter

5/10

Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute

Cobb Institute Board Members

5/3

Cosmic Pluralism: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future

Jefferey Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College

APRIL

4/26

Contrasts and Commonalities across Cultures

Maria Guadalupe Llanes, Heeyoung Jung, and Farhan Shah

Recording Unavailable

4/19

Teilhard de Chardin as Process Thinker: Why We Can’t Stay Still and Neither Can God

Ilia Delio, Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova University

4/12

Culture as a Core Process of Human Cosmic Life

David Bartosch, Professor at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University at Zhuhai, China

4/5

Pluriform Love: A Theology of Well-Being

Thomas Jay Oord, Author, Public Speaker, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary

MARCH

3/29

2022-03-29 - Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby

We Refuse to Be Enemies!

Sabeeha Rehman, Author, Blogger, and Public Speaker
Walter Ruby, Activist in Muslim-Jewish relations

3/22

Story of Wholeness: Community, Communion and Narrative Medicine

Ronan Hallowell, Assistant Professor of Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

3/15

Making Ecocide a Crime

Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University

3/8

Process, Interfaith Dialogue, and Fostering Compassionate Cities

Dhawn Martin, Executive Director of the Source of Light Center

Recording Unavailable

3/1

What the Economic Hit Man Has Learned from Indigenous People

John Perkins, Bestselling Author and Co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance

Recording Unavailable

FEBRUARY

2/22

Regenerative Agriculture: Far Superior to Industrial Ag

Carol Frances Johnston, Associate Professor Emerita of Theology and Culture at Christian Theological Seminary

Recording Unavailable

2/15

The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life

Matt Segall, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies, and Chair of the Science Advisory Team at the Cobb Institute