Process for the People
2020-02-08 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Porter Hall, 601 Mayflower Road, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
The Reverend Dr. Bruce Epperly is visiting Claremont in February, and has offered to meet with us to discuss “Process for the People,” or how to translate process thought for those who are less scholarly.
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95th Birthday Fest
2020-02-11 18:00 - 20:45 | Abernethy Dining Hall, 665 Avery Road, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
And marking the first anniversary of his latest adventure . . . The Claremont Institute for Process Studies.
Honoring 95 Years of a Life In Process
This February John Cobb turns 95 years young.Join us as we celebrate his accomplishments and aspirations.
When
February 11, 2020
6:00 – 6:45pm: Social Hour
6:45 – 7:45pm: Banquet
8:00 – 8:45pm: Program
Where
Abernethy Dining HallPilgrim PlaceClaremont, CA
How Much
$40 Per Plate
or
$280 Per Table
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The Path Forward
2020-05-14 09:00 - 11:00
The Cobb Institute’s Jay McDaniel and Elaine Padilla will join Rabbi Bradley Artson and Sophia Said for an interfaith conversation about personal and social vitality in a time of chaos. You can watch for free at The Interfaith Center’s Youtube channel.

John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Andrew Schwartz
2020-05-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: “Learning with Whitehead: A Process Philosophy of Education for an Ecological Civilization”
Presenter: Andrew Schwartz
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jay McDaniel
2020-05-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: “Whitehead’s Theory of Value,” by John Cobb
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Moderator: Jay McDaniel
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jay McDaniel
2020-06-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: “Ecological Civilization: Five Foundations,” by John Cobb
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Moderator: Jay McDaniel
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Frank Rogers
2020-06-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Compassionate Education
Presenter: Frank Rogers

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Richard Livingston
2020-06-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Process-Relational Philosophy, Chapter 5, by Robert Mesle
Presenter: Richard Livingston

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Farhan Shaw
2020-06-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Islamic Process Theology
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Presenter: Farhan Shaw
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Richard Livingston
2020-06-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy, Chapter 6
Presenter: Richard Livingston
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Robert Mesle
2020-07-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: An Interview with Robert Mesle
Presenter: Jay McDaniel will interview Robert Mesle

John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Marcus Ford
2020-07-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: “Re-foresting, Rewilding, and Re-civilizing,” by Marcus Ford
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Presenter: Marcus Ford

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - John Cobb, Meijun Fan, and Zhihe Wang
2020-07-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Interview With John Cobb By Chinese Xinhua News Agency
Presenter: John Cobb, Meijun Fan, and Zhihe Wang
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jay Jones
2020-07-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: L. Charles Birch, On Whitehead and Biology
Presenter: Jay Jones, Professor of Biology, University of La Verne
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jay McDaniel
2020-08-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Becoming an Interfaith Leader
Presenter: Jay McDaniel
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
2020-08-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Process, Spirituality, and the Spiritual Alphabet
Presenter: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Peter Dreier
2020-08-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Community Transformation for a Compassionate City

Presenter: Peter Dreier

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - John Sanders and John Cobb
2020-08-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Religious Polarization in America Today: A Sociological and Theological Analysis
Presenters: John Sanders and John Cobb
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - John Cobb
2020-09-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: John Cobb’s New Book: Salvation: Jesus’s Mission and Our Mission
Presenters: John Cobb
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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jay McDaniel & Jiangui Shi
2020-09-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: What does Process Buddhism Look Like?
Presenters: Jay McDaniel & Jiangui Shi
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Authoritarianism and the Need for a Nurturant Christianity
2020-09-12 17:00 - 18:30 | YouTube Livestream
How, in this political season, can Christians and others be so divided? How can some believe that genuine Christianity is about “authority, law and order” and others that it is about “nurturing love”? John Cobb and John Sanders are on the side of nurturing love. They believe the God in whom Jesus placed his trust was a God of inclusion, generosity, forgiveness, and empathy. Their hope is that a Christianity can emerge that has nurturance as its living breath, and that expresses this nurturance in care for human beings, especially the poor and powerless, and respect for the more than human world. And yet they realize that there are many forces working against such nurturance, including among authority-preoccupied Christians. In this conversation, sponsored by the Cobb Institute, they share their perspectives and discuss their hopes for a nurturant Christianity.

What

Webinar with John Cobb & John Sanders

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Where

About the Presenters

John B. Cobb, Jr. taught theology at the Claremont School of Theology from 1958 to 1990. He is the co-founder and current co-director of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, California. The Center for Process Studies remains the leading Whitehead-related institute and has witnessed the launch of more than thirty related centers at academic institutions throughout the world, including twenty-three centers in China. He is the author of over 30 books on process theology and ecological civilization. In 2019, he founded the Claremont Institute for Process Studies, with the mission to promote process philosophy by engaging in local initiatives and cultivating compassionate communities to help build an ecological civilization. The Institute was renamed in his honor in February 2020.

John Sanders is an American theologian who has authored and edited ten books as well as over three dozen articles and book chapters. He has a doctorate in theology, spent a year as the Dominic Crosson Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, and is presently professor of religious studies at Hendrix College in Arkansas. Most of Sanders’ publications are on four topics: (1) open theism, (2) Christian views on the salvation of non-Christians for which he is a proponent of what is called inclusivism, (3) Christian views on the nature of hell, and (4) applying cognitive linguistics to theology. He has given over eighty presentations at academic conferences and dozens more in church settings. His work has generated a great deal of scholarly activity in that they are substantively engaged by or at least cited in 369 books, book chapters, and journal articles. In addition, 48 doctoral dissertations, and 26 masters theses engage his publications.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Matt Segall
2020-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Thinking Cosmologically in an Ecological Civilization: Whitehead’s Contribution

Presenters: Matt Segall, Chair of the Cobb Institute Science Advisory Board; in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Don Viney
2020-09-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes: The Mind of Charles Hartshorne

Presenter(s): Don Viney, Professor of Philosophy at Pittsburgh State University, and co-author of The Mind of Charles Hartshorne: A Critical Examination.

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Dreaming an Ecological Civilization
2020-09-26 10:00 - 11:30 | YouTube Livestream
An Exploration of Spirituality in Action

Join us for an exploration of different paths toward common goal. We face climate change, massive species extinction, melting of the polar ice caps, increasingly severe weather, violence, economic inequality, political repression, and the debilitating effects of consumer culture. We are learning about the interconnectedness of everything on our planet and how our actions affect the entire earth. At the same tine we are learning about our embededness in, and responsibilities to, the local communities where we live. We find ourselves. hoping for, and wanting to work toward, a world of nurturing communities that are good for people, animals, and the earth. A world of beloved communities. How might religious and spiritual leaders help us realize this hope? What visions are needed? What forms of religious experience are needed? How did we get so off track in the first place? We will hear two different voices on this topic and how we can take different paths to arrive at the same destination: Love for our planet.

What

Webinar with John Cobb & Matthew Fox

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About the Presenters

Matthew Fox is a spiritual theologian, an Episcopal priest and an activist for gender justice and eco-justice. He has written 37 books that have been translated into other languages over 70 times. Among them are Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, A Spirituality Named Compassion, The Reinvention of Work, The Hidden Spirituality of Men, Christian Mystics and The Pope’s War. He has contributed much to the rediscovery of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart and Thomas Aquinas as pre-modern mystics and prophets. Fox holds a doctorate in the history and theology of spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris. The founder of the University of Creation Spirituality in California, he conducts dozens of workshops each year and is a visiting scholar at the Academy for the Love of Learning.

In joining the Episcopal church over 20 years ago, Fox has been working with young people to reinvent forms of worship by bringing elements of rave such as dance, dj, vj and more into the Western Liturgy. The Cosmic Mass has been celebrated over 100 times and in dozens of cities in North America.

Fox is recipient of the Abbey Courage of Conscience Peace Award (other recipients being the Dali Lama, Mother Teresa, Ernesto Cardenal and Rosa Parks), the Ghandi King Ikeda Award, the Tikkun National Ethics Award and other awards.

More recently Fox, along with Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Listug, launched a new vision in the Order of the Sacred Earth: both a book and a new spiritual order. The OSE is a community and movement of people of varied belief systems (or non-belief systems) who share one sacred vow: “I promise to be the best lover and defender of the Earth that I can be.”

His latest books are Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God…Including the Unnameable God; Stations of the Cosmic Christ; and The Lotus & the Rose: A Conversation Between Tibetan Buddhism & Mystical Christianity. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Academy of the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, NM and resides in Vallejo, California.

John B. Cobb, Jr. is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Cobb is often regarded as the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, the school of thought associated with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Cobb is the author of more than fifty books. In 2014, Cobb was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A unifying theme of Cobb’s work is his emphasis on ecological interdependence—the idea that every part of the ecosystem is reliant on all the other parts. Cobb has argued that humanity’s most urgent task is to preserve the world on which it lives and depends, an idea which his primary influence, Whitehead, described as “world-loyalty”.

Cobb is well known for his transdisciplinary approach, integrating insights from many different areas of study and bringing different specialized disciplines into fruitful communication. Because of his broad-minded interest and approach, Cobb has been influential in a wide range of disciplines, including theology, ecology, economics, biology, and social ethics.

In 1971, he wrote the first single-author book in environmental ethics, Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology, which argued for the relevance of religious thought in approaching the ecological crisis.[8] In 1989, he co-authored the book For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, Environment, and a Sustainable Future, which critiqued current global economic practice and advocated for a sustainable, ecology-based economics. He has written extensively on religious pluralism and interfaith dialogue, particularly between Buddhism and Christianity, as well as the need to reconcile religion and science.

Cobb is the co-founder and current co-director of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, California. The Center for Process Studies remains the leading Whitehead-related institute and has witnessed the launch of more than thirty related centers at academic institutions throughout the world, including twenty-three centers in China. Most recently the Cobb Institute was founded in 2019 with the mission to bring process philosophy to local communities by engaging in local initiatives and cultivating compassionate communities to help build an ecological civilization. John B. Cobb Jr.is the author of over 30 books on process theology and ecological civilization. His latest book is titled Salvation is available September 2020.

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Co-sponsored byThe Center for Spirituality at Ontario&The Cobb Institute

John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Mark Anielski
2020-09-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Economics as if People Mattered

Presenter(s): Mark Anielski, President and Chief Well-being Officer of Anielski Management Inc. an economic-consultancy specializing in the economics of happiness and well-being.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Xiuhua Zhang
2020-10-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Why Is Process Philosophy Important to Post-Covid China?

Presenter(s): Prof. Xiuhua Zhang, Director of Beijing Center for Process Marxism, Chinese University of Political Science and Law

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Celebrating John Cobb's New Book
2020-10-11 15:00 - 16:30
Jesus’s Mission and Ours

In John’s previous 50 books he did not say all he’d like to about Jesus and about his experiences in China in behalf of Ecological Civilization. So here’s what he wants to share in what may be his “last book.”

“To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day. That is, to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.”

John invites you to join him and Ron Hines, David Lull, Jane Douglass, Pat Beiting, and Pilgrim neighbors to explore his message, which includes some of the following:

Jesus’ Understanding of SalvationThe Fading of Historical ConsciousnessSo, What Is Our Mission Now?Deconstructing American Self-UnderstandingHow Ecological Civilization is PossibleCan God Help?

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Online Zoom Meeting

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Zack Walsh
2020-10-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: How is the Process Community Contributing to”The New Possible”?

Presenter(s): Zack Walsh

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Can a Local Church Be Saved
2020-10-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
A Discussion of John Cobb’s new book, “Salvation”

The calling of a Christian, says John Cobb, is not to imitate the beliefs of Jesus but rather to share in his faith: to be open to a loving God in our way and our time as he was in his way and his time. And it is to his hope, along with him, that a truly beloved society can emerge in which love, not violence, is the norm. For Jesus the challenge to this hope was Rome; for Christians today the challenge is Modernity. If we are Christian, can we save ourselves from ourselves, so that this kind of world can emerge? John Cobb’s answer in Salvation: Jesus’ Mission and Ours is “yes, maybe.” It depends on whether communities of Christians – local churches – can roll up their sleeves and help hope become a reality. Join Rev. Dr. Jen Strickland and Rev. Dr. Jacob Buchholz of the Claremont United Church of Christ (Claremont, CA), along with Dr. Jay McDaniel and the author himself, Dr. John Cobb, for an introduction to the book and a discussion of this possibility.

Who

Jen Strickland and Jacob Buchholz, Jay McDaniel, John Cobb

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Where

Online Zoom Meeting

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Helena Norberg-Hodge
2020-10-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: World Loyalty as Local Loyalty: Localization and the Economics of Happiness

Presenter(s): Helena Norberg-Hodge

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