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Process Pop-Up: Olson and Whitehead
Online EventProcess Pop-Ups are hour-long, informal gatherings that "pop up" occasionally, and are available to interested and curious minds. This pop-up is a two-part conversation on the poetry of the New England poet Charles Olson and and its connection with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
FreeProcess Pop-Up: Olson and Whitehead
Online EventProcess Pop-Ups are hour-long, informal gatherings that "pop up" occasionally, and are available to interested and curious minds. This pop-up is a two-part conversation on the poetry of the New England poet Charles Olson and and its connection with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
FreeProcess Pop-Up: Can a Christian be a Buddhist, too?
Online EventProcess Pop-Ups are hour-long, informal gatherings that "pop up" occasionally, and are available to interested and curious minds. This pop-up will discuss the question, Can a Christian be a Buddhist, Too?
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Process Pop-up: The Deeper Roots of Mass Shootings
Join a dynamic discussion on the deeper roots of mass shootings, inspired by process scholar Sheri Kling’s recent piece on the Cobb Institute blog Process in Praxis titled “Are Fragmentation, Trauma, and Demoralization at the Root of Mass Shootings?”
Process Pop-up: Process and Religious Pluralism
Join a dynamic discussion on process and religious pluralism, using Bruce Epperly's recently published book The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism as a springboard for conversation.
Process Pop-up: Balancing Eight Spiritual Tensions
Facilitated by Jared Morningstar Join an interactive Pop-Up event where we will explore four pairs of religious and spiritual dispositions which are in tension with one another. Participants will explore the feelings that come up with each of the perspectives, and try to find ways to see richness in both sides of the tensions, rather…
Process Pop-Up: The Tao Flows on Like a River Forever
Dr. Rosemarie Anderson will provide examples of verses from her own translation of the Tao Te Ching, suggestive of the philosophy of organism and why modern Chinese are now attracted to Process Philosophy.
Process Pop-Up: Family, Parenting, Young Spirituality, and Process
How might a process perspective help parents to raise their children to be spiritual, resilient, creative, and compassionate? Join Jay McDaniel and Bonnie Rambo as they facilitate a conversation on these topics.
Process Pop-Up: Process Mysticism
Drawing from his latest book, PROCESS MYSTICISM, Dan Dombrowski will offer a process philosophical approach to mysticism or religious experience. He will use the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore this subject.
Process Pop-Up: Deconstructing Hell
In this online event, we'll explore why the coauthors of DECONSTRUCTING HELL argue that perhaps no modern church dogma has been more destructive to the mission of Jesus, created more atheists, or generated more religious trauma than that of eternal conscious torment for the non-believer.
Process Pop-Up: Attuning with Things: The Mind According to Nishitani Keiji
In this Pop-Up, Kyoto School scholar Carlos Barbosa Cepeda will explore Nishitani Keiji's philosophy of mind, showing how ideas from the Japanese philosopher help us move beyond metaphors of the mind as a computer and achieve a more vivid understanding of who we are.
Process Pop-Up: The Diabolical Trinity
In this Pop-Up, Dr. Mark Karris will discuss the religious trauma caused by the unholy trinity of traumatizing beliefs in a tormenting Hell, a wrathful God, and human depravity and how such beliefs are traumatizing for individuals and have led to abandonment of the church.
Process Pop-Up: The Secular as Sacred: Taoism & Confucianism from the Perspective of Process Philosophy
In this Pop-Up, Dr. Zhenbao Jin will discuss the cosmology of Taoism and Confucianism from the perspective of process philosophy and explore meditation as the way to embody such a cosmology.
Rethinking Process Theology and Religious Pluralism Through the Lens of Divine Omnipresence
In this five-session course, students will explore the question of religious pluralism and consider what difference a process understanding of divine omnipresence and the centrality of compassion in all major religions can make to how one develops a Christian theology.