Process Explorations: Thandeka & Jennifer Jennings
April 8 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PDT
Series: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think, Re-act, Re-create
Topic: The Untrolling Project
Presenter(s): Thandeka & Jennifer Jennings
Untrolling America is a new multimedia series created by Thandeka and Jennifer Jennings as part of a grassroots initiative to unite Americans across their partisan divides and cultural war battlefields.
Will they succeed?
Will their series create new actions everywhere, the kind that John B. Cobb Jr. called for in his 2024 public lecture on earthism at Peking University? Will it galvanize persons “to love the whole in its complex wholeness in a way that leads us to care about the consequences of our actions everywhere”? Will it change the way we feel, think and act?
Thandeka and Jennifer will ask us to reflect on, discuss, and answer these questions after a screening of the first episode of Untrolling America—which John helped fund— on April 8, 2025 on Process Explorations.
About the Presenter(s)
Thandeka is a Unitarian Universalist theologian, minister and congregational consultant, founder and President of Love Beyond Belief ™ Inc., co-creator and co-producer of the Universal Connections small group project and The Untrolling Project, and a former Emmy award-winning television producer.
Thandeka has spent more than two decades studying the brain science of emotions—Affective Neuroscience (AN). As a result of her work in AN, she founded Contemporary Affect Theology (CAT), which investigates the links between religion and emotions, differentiating spiritual experiences from religious beliefs.
Jaak Panksepp, the founder of AN, commends Thandeka’s “decisive historical-philosophical analysis” as work that can provide “a universal substrate for nondenominational religious experience” (The Archaeology of Mind, 391).
Her books and essays have helped secure her place as a “major figure in American liberal theology,” as Gary Dorrien notes in The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950-2005 (John Knox Press, 2006).
Jennifer Jennings is a CPA with 27 years of financial accounting experience, including 17 years as the Director of Financial Reporting at a major corporation in Dallas. She is Vice President of Finance & Operations at Love Beyond Belief ™ Inc, and Co-Director of Universal Connections and The Untrolling Project.
In 2007, her inward journey of self-discovery sparked an intense spiritual pilgrimage seeking new ways to connect all the people of this planet in creating better ways to live together. The journey led to her finding Unitarian Universalism and The First Unitarian Church of Dallas where she has served on the Church Board, the Board of North Texas Unitarian Universalist Congregations, its Love Beyond Belief Steering Committee, its New Life School of Uganda Partnership Committee and as a Circles Small Group Facilitator and facilitator of Adult Religious Education offerings like Coming of Age for Adults and Turning Points in UU History. When she took Thandeka’s Universal Connections small group workshop, she found what she’d been seeking: a way to affirm the spiritual common ground of humanity for life-enhancing work on planet earth. Jennifer now works with Thandeka full time
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