BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cobb Institute - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cobb.institute X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cobb Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240903T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240903T120000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20240828T191831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T191940Z UID:10001056-1725357600-1725364800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Leslie King DESCRIPTION:Topic: Leadership and Process Thought \n\n\n\nPresenters: Leslie King \n\n\n\nLeslie King\, chair of the Cobb Institute Education Team\, says\, “Leading a local community can be fraught with challenge.  This may\, in part\, be true because of a leader’s perception of right organization.  Process thought can alleviate unnecessary tension and stress as it informs a new model of leadership adventure. I have sought to discover in my career as a local pastor how process thought can strengthen leadership efforts.”  She is happy to be sharing her experiences and values with the Cobb and Friends Community.  \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Leslie King is the Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Waco. She received her BA from Kansas University (’91) and her Masters of Divinity from McCormick Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago (‘94). In 2010 she completed her Doctor of Ministry at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City Missouri with an emphasis in Spirituality and Organizational Change. She began her service to First Presbyterian Church of Waco in 2012. Process Theology has been a passion since 2007 when she began her Doctor of Ministry. Since September 2020\, she is a yoga instructor (RYT 200) with Spirit Bear Yoga and (RYT 500) with My Vinaysa Practice. She’s a member of Yoga Alliance. She enjoys leading yoga flows for the youth and adults of the church. Her particular interest is in Yin and Restorative yoga as it relates to spiritual well-being. Piano competency is slowly emerging and music is a source of joy. She has been married to DJ King since November of 1996 and together they enjoy watching their three young adult children\, Cody\, Katie and Claire make their way in the world. With a menagerie of stray animals\, the Kings are glad to call Waco home.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-09-03/ LOCATION:Online Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cobb-Friends-header-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240905T090000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20231230T061834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z UID:10000879-1725523200-1725526800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-09-05/ CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T120000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20240827T030355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T030609Z UID:10001054-1725962400-1725969600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Paul Kittlaus DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Tyrant Fears the Poet \n\n\n\nPresenters: Paul Kittlaus \n\n\n\nHere’s how Paul Kittlaus\, John Cobb’s neighbor at Pilgrim Place\, introduces himself. “The gifts of ministry given to me have included organizing people within the progressive church for social change. The civil rights movement\, Selma\, women’s liberation\, Chicano Moratorium\, opposition to the war in Vietnam\, aiding young men to turn in their draft cards\, the environmental issues\, these and other social issues have presented themselves to my generation.  \n\n\n\n“In 2014\, the year of my 80th birthday\, I was drawn into a weeklong workshop on Abstract Acrylic Painting.  Surprising doors in my spirit were opened. And I found myself in another resistance movement.” \n\n\n\nMy paintings are now in the permanent collection of the Claremont-Lewis Art Museum\, Claremont Heritage\, the Claremont United Church of Christ.  I have had solo shows in the Prison Library Project\, the Claremont Chamber of Commerce\, at the HoltxPalm Gallery in Ontario\, and in exhibition at the Community Arts Workshop Gallery in Santa Barbara\, and the Riverside Art Museum.” \n\n\n\nCheck out his art at https://paulkittlaus.art\, where you’ll find this brief bio:  “Reverend Paul Kittlaus was ordained in the United Church of Christ (UCC)\, San Diego\, CA and during his career served UCC church pastorates throughout Southern California and Madison\, WI. He also held ecumenical positions to advance theological training and social justice\, and served as the director of the UCC Washington Office for The Office for Church in Society. He is a published author and contributor to multiple journals and magazines. Retired in 1999 at Pilgrim Place in Claremont\, CA\, Rev. Kittlaus is an active steward of the community and a board member of Progressive Christians Uniting\, Southern California Ecumenical Council\, and Pilgrim Pines Camp. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Missouri\, a masters of divinity from the University of Chicago/Chicago Theological Seminary in 1959\, and masters in political science from George Washington University in 1981.” \n\n\n\nSee the video in which he is honored by Chicago Theological Seminary as their 2024 distinguished Alumni of the Year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-09-10/ LOCATION:Online Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cobb-Friends-header-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T090000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20231230T061834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z UID:10000880-1726128000-1726131600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-09-12/ CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T120000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20240827T031547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T173719Z UID:10001055-1726567200-1726574400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Audrey E Kitagawa\, JD DESCRIPTION:Topic: Moral and Ethical Imperative: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons \n\n\n\nPresenters: Audrey E Kitagawa\, JD \n\n\n\nWatch for further details about Audrey Kitagawa’s international interfaith media ministry.  She is the one who produced the inaugural ZOOMcast of the launch of the Living Earth Movement on John Cobb’s 97th birthday.  She has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Parliament of World Religions. \n\n\n\n       Audrey E. Kitagawa\, J.D.\, is President/Founder of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation\, President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family\, Chair of the Anti-Racism Initiative & Co-Chair of the Gender Equality Working Group of the G20 Interfaith Forum\, and former Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations.  She is an Ambassador of Religions for Peace International\, a United Religions Initiative UN Representative – as a member of URI CC “Voices for a Nuclear Weapons Free World\,” a co-facilitator of the URI UN CC\, and Chair Emerita of the NGO Committee on Spirituality\, Values and Global Concerns. She has been enstooled into the royal family of Ajiyamanti\, Ghana as the Nekoso Hemaa (Queen Mother of Development) where the Nana Ode Anyankobea Junior Secondary School which she helped to build is named after her. She is the recipient of the Spirit of the UN Award given to outstanding individuals who have demonstrated the vision and spirit of the UN as expressed through the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was conferred an Honorary Interfaith Minister degree by the New Seminary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-09-17/ LOCATION:Online Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cobb-Friends-header-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T090000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20231230T061834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z UID:10000881-1726732800-1726736400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-09-19/ CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240924T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240924T120000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20240923T174054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T174153Z UID:10001065-1727172000-1727179200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord DESCRIPTION:Topic: What I Learned When Defrocked and Excommunicated for Being Queer Affirming \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord recently endured an official church trial for his full queer affirmation. The trial verdict: his license and membership were taken. In this Cobb and Friends session\, Oord talks about his journey from becoming queer affirming 30 years ago to eventually being defrocked and excommunicated. That journey included times of guilt and triumph\, emotional turmoil and social pressures. Oord also talks about principles in open and relational theology that guided him on this journey\, and he shares lessons learned in the process. To prepare\, participants might read Oord’s short essay that recently appeared in Newsweek: “I Was Expelled from My Church. I was Found Guilty\, But I Do Not Feel Sorry.” https://www.newsweek.com/defrocked-church-found-guilty-do-not-feel-sorry-1947556. \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord is a best-selling and award-winning author\, having written or edited more than thirty books. Academic Influence ranks him among the most influential theologians in the 21st century. Oord directs doctoral programs at Northwind Theological Seminary and directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He is known for his research and writing on love\, open and relational theology\, science and religion\, evil and power\, and the implications of freedom and relationships for transformation.  Explore his website at https://thomasjayoord.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-09-24/ LOCATION:Online Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cobb-Friends-header-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240926T090000 DTSTAMP:20260504T165535 CREATED:20231230T061834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231230T061839Z UID:10000882-1727337600-1727341200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-09-26/ CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR