Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
2022-06-15 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-06-22 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-06-29 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-07-06 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-07-13 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-07-20 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-07-27 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-08-03 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kate Common
2022-06-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Creating Community: Reimagining Sacred Origins and Utopic Destinations

Presenter(s): Kate Common

Dr. Kate Common is Visiting Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at the Methodist Theological School of Ohio, serving as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Scholar. She comes to us highly recommended by Mary Elizabeth Moore, former Dean of Boston University School of Theology, who is fascinated by Dr. Cannon’s rethinking the nature of utopias, based on archaeological discoveries related to Hebrew Bible stories in the time of the Judges. Dr. Common will be discussing her pending publication of Undoing Conquest: Hebrew Highland Settlements and the Theological Imagination. Her scholarly work is summarized in this curriculum vitae.

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Class: Christianity in Process
2022-06-21 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-06-28 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-05 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-12 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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Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
2022-06-23 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-07-14 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-07-28 08:30 - 09:30 | 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?
2022-06-28 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-07-12 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-07-26 08:30 - 09:30, 2022-08-09 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: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
2022-06-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society

Presenter(s): Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Dr. Obeng-Odoom, a native of Ghana, is Associate Professor of Global Development Studies at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki in Finland. His topic is a book published in 2021 in which he applies the thought of Henry George to the economic concept of “the commons.” He will also share comments on his newest book, Global Migration Beyond Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Political Economy (Oxford U Press, 2022) and its relation to the book by John Cobb & Herman Daly, For the Common Good (Beacon Press, 1989, 1994).

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Learning Circle: Beginning Process and Reality
2022-07-03 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-07-10 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-07-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-07-24 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-07-31 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-08-07 16:00 - 17:00
Encountering Whitehead’s Magnum Opus for First-Timers

Designed for beginners, this learning circle will involve a close reading of Whitehead’s seminal work, discussing passages together in-depth as we work our way through the text.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Gao He Ran
2022-07-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Learning to Befriend Nature in a Beijing Eco-Village

Presenter(s): Gao He Ran

An effective presenter at the recent Claremont Eco-Forum for a large audience in China and the US, Gao He Ran will share her experience with the community of artists and educators who are part of the Beijing Eco-Village that is emerging around a school founded in the spirit of the Waldorf Schools movement. She is Founder and Coordinator of Earth Village Nature School, in Xin Village, Beijing. Among her many certifications, she is certified by a German organization in “Forest and Nature Pedagogy.’ She will share her experience of nature education there and also some poetry. She has co-organized a global forum on Natural Capital and Green Investment, and helped establish the DeTao Institute of Green Investment. In addition to her native Chinese, Gao He Ran can also work with English, Finnish, and elemental German. You may explore her attached biodata.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thandeka
2022-07-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Untrolling America: What Trump Gets Right and Democrats Get Wrong About White America

Presenter(s): Thandeka

Donald Trump and the next generation of Trump politicians affirm what most white American voters feel: abused, afraid, outraged, and neglected. And Trump politicians promise what these voters want: an end to their suffering. Presently, most Democrats, mainstream Republicans, Black Americans, liberals, progressives, and conservatives can’t parse the white suffering without distorting it and thus are clueless about how to end it. Thandeka calls the requisite new non-partisan work on white suffering “Untrolling America” and will explain it in process terms, advancing John Cobb’s interest in “process theology as political theology.”

Thandeka is the president and founder of Love Beyond Belief™—a 501c3 education foundation designed to help clergy and laity, activists and educators who use community-building processes to deepen connections that heal and transform the world. To this end, Love Beyond Belief™ offers workshops, courses, consultations, educational resources and eventually certification programs that help persons practice the heart of compassion through small group spiritual practices that bolster and sustain their social justice and eco-justice work. Love Beyond Belief: Finding the Access Point to Spiritual Awareness (Polebridge Press, MN, 2018) is her constructive theological and neuroscientific framework for healing and transforming the world. In the foreword to this most recent book, John Cobb wrote, “Thandeka has written a book of rigorous scholarship, brilliant original insight, and great practical importance….Having read it, I will never be able to think of my theological heritage in the same way again.”

The name Thandeka, which means “beloved” in Xhosa, was given to her by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984. Thandeka is the founder of Contemporary Affect Theology, which investigates the links between religion and emotions using insights from affective neuroscience. Thandeka’s academic positions include a visiting scholar at the Center for Process Studies, a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University, as well as positions at Harvard, Brandeis, and Andover Newton Theological School. Before receiving her PhD in philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate University, she was an Emmy award-winning television producer for 16 years.

Read more about Thandeka at: https://revthandeka.org/.

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Process Pop-up: The Deeper Roots of Mass Shootings
2022-07-21 16:30 - 17:30
Facilitated by Sheri Kling, PhD

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?”

“Rather than just arguing about whether the problem stems from the individuals or the guns, I’d like to suggest that the roots may lie even deeper. And until we are willing to follow the threads all the way down, we will never find a way out of the crisis of mass shootings. I strongly believe that the roots of this problem are cultural fragmentation, an epidemic of trauma, and widespread demoralization. In other words, we are living in a sick society that is producing mass shootings out of its sickness.”

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