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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Thandeka
2020-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online Event
Topic: Love Beyond Belief – Part 1

Presenter(s): Rev. Thandeka

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Lynn De Jonghe
2020-12-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Everything Flows: An Ecohumanist Vision

Presenter(s): Lynn De Jonghe

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Imagine What Could Be
2020-12-12 10:00 - 12:00
Jay McDaniel says, “Music is what feelings sound like.” In the “process world” we understand feelings, but it’s also nice to have experiences that remind us of the power of music. The Cobb Institute is hosting a mini music festival where we can be together and enjoy the inspirational voices of some of our process musicians. We think it’s important to find ways to join in community, especially when we are forced to be so physically separated.

During this season of giving and receiving, we hope you’ll join us as these musicians share their gift with us. In return, we hope that you’ll consider sharing something with the Cobb Institute. This event is a fundraiser, but admission is free, and everyone is welcome whether they are in a position to give or not. We just want you to feel a little joy and hope and harmony during a time in which so many are suffering.

Featuring Performances by…

Bill McClellan, “The Cuckoo”Sheri Kling, “Whole-Making Nearness of God”Hope Montgomery, “The Solstice Song”Don Viney, “Teilhard’s Fire”Joe Lombardi, “Spirit”Susannah Stubbs, “Big Yellow Taxi”Jon Gill, “The Next Universe”Adventureland, “All Shall Be Well”Music Video by Kat Reeves, featuring the photography of Tom Oord

And more…

Please join us!

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Thandeka
2020-12-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Love Beyond Belief – Part 2

Presenter(s): Rev. Thandeka

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Holiday Party
2020-12-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Informal Holiday Party

Presenter(s): TBA

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Jesus's Mission and Ours
2021-01-10 11:00 - 12:00
“Jesus’s Mission and Ours” is the theme of a series of conversations that will take place each Sunday from January 10 through February 14, 11:00 a.m. to noon, featuring John Cobb. The series is being sponsored and hosted by John’s church community, Claremont United Methodist Church. Each conversation will focus on a portion of his most recent book, Salvation, and will be facilitated by Ron Hines.

TOPIC FOR JANUARY 10th: Does Jesus Save? (chapters 1 & 13)

Jesus announced the basileia theou (divine commonwealth) in his mission to save his people from Rome and from their own proclivity to violence. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day—“to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.” John is frank about the dilemmas in freeing American self-understanding from its “Christianism” and “modern” metaphysics. He likens Jesus’s mission to today’s invitation to an “ecological civilization,” which is called for in the constitution of China, and he celebrates the emergence of “communities of communities” and “ecological economics.” The book summarizes a lifetime of reflection by this eminent scholar in our midst, and gives insight into his current popularity in China.

Purchase the book using the link here, and the Cobb Institute will receive a small percentage of the revenue.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Andrew M. Davis
2021-01-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Mind, Value, and Cosmos

Presenter(s): Andrew M. Davis

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Jesus's Mission and Ours
2021-01-17 11:00 - 12:00
“Jesus’s Mission and Ours” is the theme of a series of conversations that will take place each Sunday from January 10 through February 14, 11:00 a.m. to noon, featuring John Cobb. The series is being sponsored and hosted by John’s church community, Claremont United Methodist Church. Each conversation will focus on a portion of his most recent book, Salvation, and will be facilitated by Ron Hines.

TOPIC FOR JANUARY 17th: Can Jesus’s Heirs Create a Saving Counterculture? (chapters 2, 3, 4)

Jesus announced the basileia theou (divine commonwealth) in his mission to save his people from Rome and from their own proclivity to violence. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day—“to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.” John is frank about the dilemmas in freeing American self-understanding from its “Christianism” and “modern” metaphysics. He likens Jesus’s mission to today’s invitation to an “ecological civilization,” which is called for in the constitution of China, and he celebrates the emergence of “communities of communities” and “ecological economics.” The book summarizes a lifetime of reflection by this eminent scholar in our midst, and gives insight into his current popularity in China.

Purchase the book using the link here, and the Cobb Institute will receive a small percentage of the revenue.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Sheri Kling
2021-01-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Dreaming Together: On Whitehead & Jung

Presenter(s): Sheri Kling

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Jesus's Mission and Ours
2021-01-24 11:00 - 12:00
“Jesus’s Mission and Ours” is the theme of a series of conversations that will take place each Sunday from January 10 through February 14, 11:00 a.m. to noon, featuring John Cobb. The series is being sponsored and hosted by John’s church community, Claremont United Methodist Church. Each conversation will focus on a portion of his most recent book, Salvation, and will be facilitated by Ron Hines.

TOPIC FOR JANUARY 24th: God’s Saving Way? Ecological Civilization! (chapters 5, 6, 7, 8)

Jesus announced the basileia theou (divine commonwealth) in his mission to save his people from Rome and from their own proclivity to violence. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day—“to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.” John is frank about the dilemmas in freeing American self-understanding from its “Christianism” and “modern” metaphysics. He likens Jesus’s mission to today’s invitation to an “ecological civilization,” which is called for in the constitution of China, and he celebrates the emergence of “communities of communities” and “ecological economics.” The book summarizes a lifetime of reflection by this eminent scholar in our midst, and gives insight into his current popularity in China.

Purchase the book using the link here, and the Cobb Institute will receive a small percentage of the revenue.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - David Orr
2021-01-26 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: The Hill We Climb? 6 Questions About Our Current Condition

Presenter(s): David Orr

Information about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute, please click here.

Process of Gardening
2021-01-28 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-02-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-02-11 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-02-18 18:00 - 19:00
Learn how to create your own food producing garden in this four-class series.

Jan 28th Class 1: Getting Started (Sung Sohn and Kat Reeves)

• The garden in process• Sacred work–listen to the earth• What to plant and when• Preparing the ground–a partnership• Raised beds vs planting in the ground• Seeds–the future banquet

Feb 4th Class 2: Kissing the Earth (Elinor Crescenzi)

• Soil is holy• Composting• Outside of class: View movie Kiss the Ground

Feb 11th Class 3: Collaboration with Nature (Stephen Yorba)

• Planting from seed• Pests• The elements–water, sun, weather• Pollination• Garden helpers–ladybugs and bees

Feb 18th Class 4: The Harvest (Kat Reeves & Stephen Yorba)

• When to harvest• How to prune• Gratitude• Saving seeds• Urban harvest–extra food and community• A process approach to growing food, grocery stores and factory farming• Recipe exchange

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Jesus's Mission and Ours
2021-01-31 11:00 - 12:00
“Jesus’s Mission and Ours” is the theme of a series of conversations that will take place each Sunday from January 10 through February 14, 11:00 a.m. to noon, featuring John Cobb. The series is being sponsored and hosted by John’s church community, Claremont United Methodist Church. Each conversation will focus on a portion of his most recent book, Salvation, and will be facilitated by Ron Hines.

TOPIC FOR JANUARY 31st: Can Americans Be Saved? (chapters 9, 10, 11)

Jesus announced the basileia theou (divine commonwealth) in his mission to save his people from Rome and from their own proclivity to violence. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day—“to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.” John is frank about the dilemmas in freeing American self-understanding from its “Christianism” and “modern” metaphysics. He likens Jesus’s mission to today’s invitation to an “ecological civilization,” which is called for in the constitution of China, and he celebrates the emergence of “communities of communities” and “ecological economics.” The book summarizes a lifetime of reflection by this eminent scholar in our midst, and gives insight into his current popularity in China.

Purchase the book using the link here, and the Cobb Institute will receive a small percentage of the revenue.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Christine Loh
2021-02-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Asia’s Climate Optimism: Toward Carbon Neutrality

Presenter(s): Christine Loh

Christine Loh, a former Under-Secretary for Environment and a Legislative Councilor, is Chief Development Strategist at the Institute for the Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is now at UCLA as Visiting Professor, Anderson School of Management. She brings a practical lens to “Ecological Civilization” in Asia.

Information about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute, please click here.

Jesus's Mission and Ours
2021-02-07 11:00 - 12:00
“Jesus’s Mission and Ours” is the theme of a series of conversations that will take place each Sunday from January 10 through February 14, 11:00 a.m. to noon, featuring John Cobb. The series is being sponsored and hosted by John’s church community, Claremont United Methodist Church. Each conversation will focus on a portion of his most recent book, Salvation, and will be facilitated by Ron Hines.

TOPIC FOR FEBRUARY 7th: Follow Jesus’s Call to Compassion! (chapters 12, 13)

Jesus announced the basileia theou (divine commonwealth) in his mission to save his people from Rome and from their own proclivity to violence. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day—“to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.” John is frank about the dilemmas in freeing American self-understanding from its “Christianism” and “modern” metaphysics. He likens Jesus’s mission to today’s invitation to an “ecological civilization,” which is called for in the constitution of China, and he celebrates the emergence of “communities of communities” and “ecological economics.” The book summarizes a lifetime of reflection by this eminent scholar in our midst, and gives insight into his current popularity in China.

Purchase the book using the link here, and the Cobb Institute will receive a small percentage of the revenue.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jeremy Fackenthal
2021-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Common Good Film Festival: A Teaser

Presenter(s): Jeremy Fackenthal

Sample some of the 2021 films and experience the current festival director’s invitation into this 20-year-old process community tradition. It will be offered online February 12-15. Visit commongoodfilms.org to find out more about this year’s films and to check out festival founder Marjorie Suchocki’s answer to the question “Why Whitehead?”

Information about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute, please click here.

Jesus's Mission and Ours
2021-02-14 11:00 - 12:00
“Jesus’s Mission and Ours” is the theme of a series of conversations that will take place each Sunday from January 10 through February 14, 11:00 a.m. to noon, featuring John Cobb. The series is being sponsored and hosted by John’s church community, Claremont United Methodist Church. Each conversation will focus on a portion of his most recent book, Salvation, and will be facilitated by Ron Hines.

TOPIC FOR FEBRUARY 14th: What Is Our Church Saving?

Jesus announced the basileia theou (divine commonwealth) in his mission to save his people from Rome and from their own proclivity to violence. To follow Jesus today is to adopt the most inclusive mission in our day—“to save the world from the self-destruction on which it now seems bent.” John is frank about the dilemmas in freeing American self-understanding from its “Christianism” and “modern” metaphysics. He likens Jesus’s mission to today’s invitation to an “ecological civilization,” which is called for in the constitution of China, and he celebrates the emergence of “communities of communities” and “ecological economics.” The book summarizes a lifetime of reflection by this eminent scholar in our midst, and gives insight into his current popularity in China.

Purchase the book using the link here, and the Cobb Institute will receive a small percentage of the revenue.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Rebecca Parker
2021-02-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Why play the cello in a suffering, unjust world?

Presenter(s): Rebecca Parker

A student of John Cobb, the Rev. Dr. Parker has clergy standing in both United Methodist and Unitarian Universalist affiliations. She was Professor of Theology and President of Starr King School for the Ministry, 1990-2014, and is now a board member of the Braxton Institute. (She’s bringing her cello!)

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ezra Wilson
2021-02-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Topic: Braver Angels: Inspiring the Beloved Community

Presenter(s): Ezra Wilson

Do our politics have to be demonizing? Ezra Wilson is an author, storyteller and video creator whose lifelong quest has led him from Evangelical Christianity to a broad-based interfaith perspective. His spiritual mentors include Charles Hartshorne, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, David Bentley Hart and Alfred North Whitehead. From his experience in 2012 with “Rednecks for Obama” he learned a politics that sees beyond stereotypes.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - John Grim
2021-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Presenter(s): John Grim

Topic: Indigenous Humanities in an Era of Ecological Civilization

Dr. John Grim is the Coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale with Mary Evelyn Tucker, and they are series editors of “World Religions and Ecology” from Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions. He has taught courses in Environmental History and Values, Native American and Indigenous religions, World Religions and Ecology.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Rafael Reyes III
2021-03-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Presenter(s): Rafael Reyes III

Topic: Reflections of a Flame: Religious Becoming in Henry Corbin and Alfred North Whitehead

Dr. Reyes is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Director of Information Literacy and Library Services, New York Theological Seminary.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - David Ray Griffin
2021-03-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Presenter(s): David Ray Griffin

Topic: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Question of Global Democracy

Co-founder with John Cobb of the Center for Process Studies, Dr, Griffin will discuss his just published book. Process Century Press publisher Jeanyne Slettom will facilitate our conversation.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Angela Yu
2021-03-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Presenter(s): Angela Yu

Topic: The Role of Process Thought in Creating an Eco-Community in Rural China

This young Chinese woman working with iconic fashion magazines was depressed by her city’s environmental pollution. Now she’s back on the farm, and building up an ecological community of 30,000 farmers in her hometown Shandong Province. This farmer is also a writer, postmodern thinker, and art-lover. She serves as director of the Eco-Project at the Institute for Postmodern Development of China, and she is advisor of the Global network for Ecological Education that IPDC is creating. Hear her story!

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Christina Hutchins
2021-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Presenter(s): Christina Hutchins

Topic: Beyond Loss, the Beauty of Life Unfolding

In her podcast interview with Jay McDaniel, poet/pastor/theologian Christina Hutchins said she was drawn to Whitehead because he deals with “perishing in the midst of becoming.” He takes loss seriously. Hutchins identified Holy Week as one of her favorite parts of the Christian calendar. Beyond the reality of loss is also the reaching out of Jesus from the place of suffering. Life is affirmed in congregation. Adventures of ideas never cease to be life-changing, with more beauty and love to unfold. Her sharing of poetry will remind us that life matters! Trust yourself to it as a swimmer trusts in water!

Find more about Christina Hutchins—poet, process philosopher/theologian, teacher/workshop leader, speaker/retreat facilitator—at her website.

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Breakfast with Whitehead
2021-04-05 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-04-12 08:00 - 09:00
Join a group of pastors and faith leaders as we explore how Whitehead’s ideas can meet us in our own religious traditions and become fertile ground for theological reflection and pastoral ministry. Led by Jay McDaniel, this four-week learning circle will focus on Whitehead’s concepts of Peace and God as found in Adventures of Ideas and Process & Reality. True to the nature of Open and Relational Theologies, we respect and welcome diversity in faith tradition, personal experience, and theological perspective.

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John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Andrew Schwartz & Jeremy Fackenthal
2021-04-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Event
Presenter(s): Andrew Schwartz & Jeremy Fackenthal

Topic: Help Build a Well-Being Economy

Our friends from the Institute for Ecological Civilization will explore with us new opportunities from their partnership as a “hub” of The Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), a global collaborative. EcoCiv connectors Andrew Schwartz (Executive Vice President) and Jeremy Fackenthal (Managing Director) will be our conversation guides.

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