Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
2022-04-28 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-05-12 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-05-26 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-06-09 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online Event
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that meets twice a month to read and discuss texts that deal with the vast diversity of world faiths, those that have had a very large influence for many centuries as well as those that may be newer and less well-known. The only prerequisite for this group is a desire to learn about the wide variety of religion expressions.

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Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
2022-05-03 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-05-17 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-05-31 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-06-14 08:30 - 09:30 | Online Event
A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin

Facilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jefferey Long
2022-05-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Cosmic Pluralism: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future

Presenter(s): Jefferey Long

Jeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College, in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000. He is the editor, most recently, of the volume Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, and Scientific, as well as the co-editor of the Buddhism and Jainism volumes of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions.

Information about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute, please join our list of Friends.

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Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
2022-05-04 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-05-11 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-05-18 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-05-25 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-06-01 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-06-08 08:00 - 09:00 | Online Event
Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives.

To learn more or join, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute.

Process Pop-up: Process Theology and the Enneagram
2022-05-04 17:00 - 18:00
Facilitated by Ken Pearson & Jay McDaniel

Process theology invites us to imagine God as “in process” with us, adapting to our unique situation and context by availing us of fresh possibilities for a journey into wholeness, relative to our personality and propensities. We can become more available to God’s living presence by understanding our gifts and limitations and appreciating the gifts of others who are different from us. God works in them in their ways, just as God works in us in our ways. With its powerful typology, the Enneagram contributes significantly to this self-understanding and appreciation. It also helps us recognize that, so often our gifts our also our sins, thus avoiding the liabilities of self-deception. Our hour together will provide an opportunity to consider the Enneagram types, to see their relevance to process theology, and to consider how, together, the Enneagram and process theology might help us grow in our potential to help heal a broken world. The wholeness we seek is not personal alone, but social and ecological too.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute
2022-05-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute

Join us for a discussion about the latest developments and share some exciting announcements about what’s happening at the Institute.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
2022-05-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Relating Psychedelics to Process Philosophy

Presenter(s): Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

We host conversation with the author of his new book exploring the relation of psychedelics to metaphysics, panpsychism, and process thought more generally. He may also tell us about how that relates to the Exeter University Psychedelic Research Group. Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Spinoza, and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of mind. Following his degree in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick, he became a Philosophy lecturer in London for six years after which he pursued his PhD at The University of Exeter – where he is now a research fellow and associate lecturer.

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Class: Using Poetry to Unfold Whitehead's Modes of Becoming
2022-05-18 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-05-25 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-01 17:00 - 18:30, 2022-06-08 17:00 - 18:30
How can poetry vivify and deepen our understanding of Whitehead’s Process and Reality?

This is the third in series of three four-week courses taught by Christina Hutchins. The “vivid suggestiveness of the poets” can deepen our engagement with process concepts that have been well-developed yet also limited by conventional theological or philosophical thought. In this class, we will use poetry to animate felt understandings of several of Whitehead’s key ideas.

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Process Pop-up: Islamic Approaches to Interfaith Cooperation
2022-05-19 17:00 - 18:00
Facilitated by Jared Morningstar

Join a dynamic discussion on Islamic approaches to interfaith cooperation to learn what the Qur’an say about other religions and how Muslims are thinking about religious pluralism today. This pop-up will be hosted on Zoom and facilitated by Jared Morningstar. The session will last approximately one hour. Resources pertaining to the topic are provided at the event page linked below as springboards for discussion.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Isobel Zhang
2022-05-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Process Philosophy and Me

Presenter(s): Isobel Zhang

Isobel Zhang, a Chinese educator and author, is China director of ACTAsia, an organization promoting nature education for children since 2006. She will share her personal journey, including how the poetry of her teacher Bai Ya introduced her to process philosophy. A book she’s been working on since 2020, Caring For Life: Education Based on Mental Model Improvement, will be published in October. In it Zhang explains what she thinks about the support from process philosophy. She’s been involved in creating the first module for training teachers to encourage children to Care for Life with compassion and respect. Children’s books they have published in English and Chinese stress empathy and responsibility along with critical thinking. Series titles include Be Caring, Be Kind, Be Respectful, Be Together. Browse the references to Isobel Zhang on the ACTAsia website, which includes some of her earlier work on animal welfare concerns. She comes to us highly recommended by Dr. Zhihe Wang, Director of the Institute for Postmodern China.

Information about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute, please join our list of Friends.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Laura Burgis
2022-05-31 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: The Compassionate Cities Movement: A Next Step in Human Evolution

Presenter(s): Laura Burgis

Currently, Dr. Burgis serves on the Charter for Compassion International Board of Trustees as its vice-chair. She can share how the Compassionate Cities Movement helps cities thrive through intentional compassion programs. Laura has a passion for cultivating human(e) approaches to leadership development and community evolution. Her current research interests focus on how exponential technologies like AI, robotics and remote learning platforms can be applied to interpersonal landscape development and consciousness raising. She is also actively involved in the public banking movement and other socio-economic-ecological system wide collective impact initiatives, working with cross-sector leadership in cities/universities. She is encouraging the city of Claremont (CA) to become a Compassionate City (following the precedent of its neighbors in Pomona and Upland).

Dr. Laura Burgis is president & CEO of the Human Values Center and works with Baltazar & Rose Corporation, an LA based social enterprise supporting refugees and former gang affiliates with job training and love. She brings to us her 25-year career as an Associate Dean and professor at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business, where her expertise in Ethics in Education and Public Policy received special recognition. She came to Claremont in 2012 to serve as the founding Executive Vice President of Claremont Lincoln University, a graduate institution focused on ethical leadership and social impact.

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Class: Christianity in Process
2022-06-05 16:05, 2022-06-07 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-06-14 14:00 - 15:30
A Six-Week Exploration of Christianity & Process Theology

In this six-week course, John Cobb will elucidate six of the themes in Christianity and process theology that he considers vital to his faith. Each session will include a mini-lecture by John, a conversation between John and Tripp, and responses to questions submitted by class participants.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Dongwoo Lee
2022-06-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Organic Panentheism: A Northeast Asian Lens on the Christian God

Presenter(s): Dongwoo Lee

Fresh from his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense at Claremont School of Theology, Dr. Lee will prompt a conversation based on his integration of panentheist perspectives from Buddhism, Confucianism, and shamanism from Northeast Asia and beyond. He is the Korea Project Director for the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for Ecological Civilization. He is also currently serving as pastor of Pasadena Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). He got his Master of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Follow Dr. Lee’s bilingual blog here.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Michael Fricke and Lília Dias Marianno
2022-06-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Jorge Pixley’s Liberating Process Theology – A Tribute

Presenter(s): Michael Fricke and Lília Dias Marianno

Dr. George Pixley is a Baptist missionary who taught biblical studies in seminaries in Nicaragua and Mexico City. (A brief biodata in Spanish can be found here.) He first encountered process theology through contact with Bernard Loomer at the University of Chicago. His retirement in Claremont, California brought him close to the work of the Center for Process Studies, which featured Pixley’s integration of biblical studies, liberation theology, and process theology for its Latin American Project. Pixley’s 2003 essay summarizes his thought.

Participating in the tribute to Dr. Pixley’s work will be Prof. Dr. Michael Fricke, who holds the chair for Protestant theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Regensburg. Fricke wrote his dissertation on Pixley’s Bible interpretation in Nicaragua. Another participant will be Dr. Lília Dias Marianno, Director of Eagle Gestão do Conhecim, and educator at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The event is organized by Ignacio Castuera, long associated with John Cobb and the Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Pixley’s son Kevin will also participate.

Information about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute, please join our list of Friends.

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