John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mary Elizabeth Moore, Jay McDaniel, and You
2022-12-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online Event
Topic: Incarnational Adventures

Presenters: Mary Elizabeth Moore, Jay McDaniel, and You

This will be an interactive experience appropriate to the Christmas season when Christian communities celebrate the Incarnation, or “God with us.” Retired from her former responsibility as dean of Boston University School of Theology, Mary Elizabeth Moore is now able to serve on the board of the Cobb Institute, and she’s finding more time to pursue her love of writing poetry. Currently chair of the Cobb Institute board, Jay McDaniel, Emeritus Professor of world religions at Hendrix College, continues to find ways to extend his teaching vocation, often by singing–with his dog. Search for “Incarnation” reflections on his Open Horizons website.

Jay and Mary Elizabeth are both long-time students and colleagues of John Cobb. Imagine your own experiences of Incarnation and come prepared to share the adventure.

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Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
2022-12-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2022-12-28 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.

Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
2022-12-22 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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Living Earth Youth Dialogues: Covid & Loneliness
2023-01-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Online Event
Sharing From the Heart is a monthly initiative where young people from China and the United States come together around the pressing ecological, cultural, and spiritual issues of our time. Through sharing thoughts, personal stories, and actions in local settings, Chinese and American youth will begin building cross-cultural bonds to support a vision of a new, ecological civilization.

Beyond Covid, there is another lasting and pressing pandemic in the US—the pandemic of loneliness, isolation, and political fanaticism. In China, many young people are facing similar challenges. Many gave up urban life and moved to the countryside in search of community and connection with the land. In this conversation, we share stories, experiences and hold space for each other, letting the digital fireside generate warmth, hope, and support.

SPEAKER: Alexi Caracotsios

Alexi Caracotsios is a lifelong student and educator. Peripatetic by nature, both mentally and physically, he has lived in several countries, is always reading multiple books, and perpetually engaged in new hobbies, most of which revolve around music and exploring nature.

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Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
2023-01-10 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-01-24 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-02-07 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-02-21 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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Process Pop-Up: Family, Parenting, Young Spirituality, and Process
2023-01-10 17:00 - 18:00
How might a process perspective help parents to raise their children to be spiritual, resilient, creative, and compassionate? Join Jay McDaniel and Bonnie Rambob as they join together to facilitate a conversation about such topics as:

Nurturing the spiritual child—practices for spiritual parentsSpiritual development across life stagesGod as parent—new ways of thinking with process-oriented perspectiveBringing spirituality into parenting after a faith crisis, holding space for spirit in the desolate wildernessIntergenerational and Interfaith Ministry/Community—the VillageTenderness as tending the hearth at home

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Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
2023-01-12 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-01-19 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-01-26 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-02 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-09 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-16 08:00 - 09:00, 2023-02-23 08:00 - 09:00
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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Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
2023-01-19 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-01-26 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-02-02 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-02-09 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-02-16 08:30 - 09:30, 2023-02-23 08:30 - 09:30
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Beginning Thursday, January 19th and ending February 23rd, we will read and discuss Bart D. Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God together. The group will meet weekly online via Zoom at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central.

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This learning circle is made possible by a collaboration among friends:

John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey
2023-01-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Common Good Film Festival Preview

Presenters: Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey

Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey will preview the 22nd annual festival with us. The films celebrate the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead, and will be held February 17-20, 2022 at the Laemmle Theater in Claremont, California. See details at the festival website.

Jeremy Fackenthal is the director of the Common Good Film Festival (CGFF), the managing director of the Institute for Ecological Civilization, and is an independent documentary filmmaker and videographer. Jeremy completed a PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University, and began using his philosophical background beyond the academy to raise questions and craft narratives. In recent years, Jeremy’s work has included video content produced for clients and shorter independent projects. In 2017 Jeremy shot and edited Spitting Fire, a short documentary on spoken word poetry as a means of personal formation for adolescents. His current ongoing project is a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Walter Benjamin and the possibility of art as a site for radical political action.

Jim Fahey is an emerging film critic and curator who works as CGFF’s assistant director. He has spent the past year building his resumé at the University of Edinburgh, where he completed a Master’s program in Film, Exhibition & Curation. During that time he served as a film critic for The Student, the longest-running student newspaper in the UK, and also began Airplane Mode, a film-review blog currently available on Substack.

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: Andrew Davis & Andrew Schwartz
2023-01-31 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Center for Process Studies Celebrates 50 Years

Presenters: Andrew Davis & Andrew Schwartz

Andrew Schwartz is the executive director of the Center for Process Studies, and Andrew Davis is the Center’s program director. Check out the CPS website for details of a week that celebrates the 98th birthday of John Cobb, and pays tribute to David Ray Griffin, co-founders of the Center, a faculty program of the Claremont School of Theology. You may register for this in person event in Claremont to get in touch with current and emerging leaders who are extending the process legacy.

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.

Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.

John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord
2023-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Open & Relational Theology: A State of the Movement Address

Presenters: Thomas Jay Oord

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author who has written or edited more than twenty-five books. Find out more about him at his website at thomasjayoord.com. Oord also directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open & Relational Theology. He won the Outstanding Faculty Award twelve times as a full-time professor and now speaks at institutions across the globe. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, open and relational theology, science and religion, and freedom and relationships for transformation.

On February 10-11 the Center for Open and Relational Theology will host the International Online Open and Relational Theology Conference (ORTLine23), and on July 10-14 it will host the Open and Relational Theology Conference (ORTCON23). For an article on the growing influence of “open and relational” theologians, see https://ctr4process.org/open-and-relational-theologians-among-most-influential-in-recent-decades/.

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’s 98th Birthday Celebration
2023-02-13 16:00 - 18:00
Come celebrate Dr. Cobb’s 98th birthday with friends from the process community! Claremont United Church of Christ has graciously opened up their space for this celebration. We’ll be in the Roberts Room from 4pm – 6pm on Monday, February 13th. This celebration kicks off the full week of events in connection with the Center for Process Studies 50th Anniversary Conference.

Attendance is free, but in order to know how many people to expect RSVPs are required.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: What is My Vocation? A Conversation with John Cobb & Friends
2023-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: What is My Vocation? A Conversation with John Cobb & Friends

Presenters: See Below

From John Cobb’s Pilgrim Place campus in Claremont we’ll be ZOOM’ing a live conversation with some “process” friends. Cobb Institute chairperson Jay McDaniel will be guiding our “Conversation in Process.” As preparation he recommends that we read John Cobb’s reflections, “What Is My Vocation?”

Conversation partners will include John Cobb, Ignacio Castuera, Meijun Fan, Al Gephart, John Fahey, Marcus Ford, Jacki Gingrich, Ron Hines, Catherine Keller, Janice Lau, Richard Lau, Sandra Lubarsky, Bob Mesle, Mary Elizabeth Moore, and Zhihe Wang. Via our usual ZOOM link all of our Friends will be welcome to contribute to the conversation!

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.

Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.

50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies
2023-02-15 09:00 - 2023-02-17 18:00
Co-sponsored by the Center for Process Studies, the Cobb Institute, the Institute for Ecological Civilization, and the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China, the “50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies” celebrates the 50-year legacy of CPS and its creative transformation in the context of a new generation of process thinkers.

Three core layers of investigation, each with four respective sessions, are proposed in light of this purpose:

Reenchanting Religion: Process Theologies in the 21st Century | Feb 15th

Science and Philosophy: Nature and the Nature of Reality | Feb 16th

Process in Practice: Society, Sustainability and Ecological Civilization | Feb 17th

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bonnie Rambob
2023-02-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: A Pastor/Teacher Reflects on Children’s Spirituality and “Screen” Culture

Presenters: Bonnie Rambob

Rev. Bonnie Rambob shifted her paid job during the pandemic from parish ministry to teaching kindergarten at her local public school. Bonnie enjoys working in, writing about, podcasting on, and exploring areas such as: multi-faith leadership, the spirituality of children and parenting, process theology, political activism, and progressive Christianity. She co-hosts the podcasts, Haystacks, a podcast for former and fringe Seventh-day Adventists, and Irenicast, a progressive Christian podcast. She is also co-editor of the book Partnering with God. Bonnie loves climbing trees, knitting, and hiking with her partner and two young adult sons. She is a presenter on Day 3 of the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies on the topic “Proximity and Relational Learning Communities: A Process Perspective on Social Presence.”

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.

Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
