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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Rebecca Shoot
DESCRIPTION:Topic: How International Law Supports Citizens Seeking Global Solutions \n\n\n\nPresenters: Rebecca Shoot \n\n\n\nIn a world where so many conflicts are contested on the battlefield\, how can international law offer a better way? Rebecca A. Shoot is the Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund\, which is Working for a Peaceful\, Free\, Just\, and Sustainable World Community. She will review some of the initiatives that Citizens for Global Solutions has taken to enhance awareness and compliance with international law particularly regarding use and control of nuclear weapons and preserving the world’s climate. \n\n\n\nRebecca Shoot is an international lawyer and democracy and governance practitioner with more than 15 years of experience in the non-governmental\, inter-governmental\, and private sectors supporting human rights on five continents.  She is recently involved with the “Summit of the Future” process\, which is being hailed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for global governance reform. Citizens for Global Solutions specific advocacy has been to try to ensure that international justice\, human rights\, and the rule of law are a respective and central element of this process and its outcome document\, the “Pact for the Future.” In doing so\, Rebecca Shoot was a penholder on the Peace and Security chapter of the companion “People’s Pact\,” which contains recommendations to enhance the international judicial architecture. They will host a side event at the Civil Society “Action Days” around the Summit in late September on the future of global governance.  \n\n\n\nFor a more detailed biodata\, see this link. \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-2024-10-1/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Faith & Feeling
DESCRIPTION:In theological circles\, German philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) may be best known for his text\, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers\, his effort to defend religion from Enlightenment skeptics. He’s also been a subject of interest to process thinkers like Philip Clayton\, Thandeka\, and\, more recently\, Chad Bahl. In his doctoral research\, Chad has been putting Schleirmacher’s thoughts on faith and feeling into conversation with the work of Alfred North Whitehead. \n\n\n\nHe has found that “In both process thought and Schleiermacher’s philosophy\, the essence of existence is not lifeless matter or dogmatic precepts. Rather\, it is lived experience. In this lived experience\, we are interconnected both as human beings and in fellowship with the Divine.” \n\n\n\nSchleiermacher is known for talking about faith as a feeling of “absolute dependence.” Resonant with Whitehead’s thinking about God’s aims for every actual event\, Chad describes this as a “natural result of being in tune with our deepest intuitions. It arises from our recognition of the presence and purpose of God in our lives.” As we cultivate our awareness of God – through spiritual practices like contemplation – this feeling naturally arises as a kind of “God-consciousness” that is “developed as we experience community with others\, fellowship with the Divine\, interaction with nature\, the Gospel story\, and much more.” \n\n\n\nWhile each of us may experience the Divine differently\, it is this “personal perception\, (not reason\, dogma\, or scientific proof)\, which serves as the centering principle for faith.” According to Chad\, attuning to this interior faith and feeling is crucial to human life. “We become fully actualized human beings when we realize fellowship with the Divine in our experiences of both Creator and creation.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-faith-feeling/
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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-2/2024-10-03/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Schumacher
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Recovering from Religious Trauma \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeremy Schumacher \n\n\n\nSee Jeremy Schumacher’s self-introduction and description of his counseling practice.   Explore his webpage on “Religious Trauma\,” a resource he offers out of his own experience. \n\n\n\n\n“Maybe at some point church became unsafe for you. . . . \n\n\n\nNow the group that once felt close doesn’t feel so welcoming. Maybe you’re dealing with more than doubt\, maybe you’re dealing with fear of abandonment by friends or family. Maybe you’re dealing with the fear that the way you were taught to look at the world doesn’t seem accurate at all anymore\, and now you aren’t sure how to make sense of your life.  \n\n\n\n“This process can be scary\, but you don’t need to do it alone. Finding a safe space to ask questions\, to deconstruct old ill-fitting beliefs\, and to rebuild healthier\, more congruent beliefs is what I offer in therapy.  \n\n\n\n“I don’t claim to have all the answers\, but going through the deconversion process myself\, I know what it can feel like. I know the fear of being cast out\, being judged\, and losing friends and family. But like many of my clients\, I also know about the joy of having a belief system that wasn’t just handed down to you\, but that you cultivated and nurtured to fit who you really are.  \n\n\n\n“If you are having doubts about the faith you were raised with\, or if those doubts have led to turning away from your church\, I can help. I work with people who are actively deconstructing their old\, harmful\, dogmatic belief systems\, and help those who are recovering from religious abuse and other adverse religious experiences.” \n\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-2024-10-8/
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CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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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-2/2024-10-10/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101: Process-Relational Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays and books on important themes to process thought. Our reflections will be guided by the Twenty Key Ideas of Process Thought. \n\n\n\nLike many of you I do not have a formal background in process thought. My seminary program did not include readings in process theology. However\, through various offerings from the Cobb Institute and Process and Faith and Open Horizons I have received a good and welcome introduction to process thought. My interest has grown with my increased knowledge of process. My hope is that this learning circle with provide a place for those of you\, like me\, who are new to process to read and discuss the books and essays of process theologians and philosophers. \n\n\n\nThe focus in our next round will be C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This short book covers a lot of territory and provides an excellent overview of Whitehead’s thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-thought-101-process-relational-philosophy/2024-10-14/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sharon Delgado
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Divestment from Fossil Fuels as Climate Change Strategy \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sharon Delgado \n\n\n\nThe Reverend Sharon Delgado is a retired United Methodist pastor\, author\, and longtime activist and nonviolence practitioner\, whose introduction to John Cobb and process theology in the 1980s helped shape her theology and ministry. Sharon is Convener of Fossil Free UMC\, which advocates for the United Methodist Church to divest from fossil fuels. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement\, which works across annual conferences to coordinate actions related to creation justice. Sharon names the invisible powers that influence human behavior and that are embodied in today’s domination system\, and points in the direction of both personal and social transformation. Find out more and follow her blog\, Progressive Christian Social Action\, at sharondelgado.org.   \n\n\n\nSharon is author of Shaking the Gates of Hell (2007\, 2020)\, Love in a Time of Climate Change (2017) and The Cross in the Midst of Creation (2022). An updated Second Edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change will be released in the spring of 2025. The book is a Wesleyan approach to climate change\, which uses scripture\, tradition\, reason\, and experience to explore the issue. The inside cover of the first edition includes an endorsement by John Cobb\, who wrote: \n\n\n\n\n“Sharon Delgado makes it clear that we\, especially we who stand in the Wesleyan tradition\, cannot choose between being scriptural in the fullest sense and activity to save as much as possible from destruction through climate change. There is no tension between biblical preaching and preaching on the overwhelming\, life-determining issues surrounding climate change. Let’s stop hemming and hawing and work with God to save God’s creation.”  \n\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-2024-10-15/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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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-2/2024-10-17/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101: Process-Relational Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays and books on important themes to process thought. Our reflections will be guided by the Twenty Key Ideas of Process Thought. \n\n\n\nLike many of you I do not have a formal background in process thought. My seminary program did not include readings in process theology. However\, through various offerings from the Cobb Institute and Process and Faith and Open Horizons I have received a good and welcome introduction to process thought. My interest has grown with my increased knowledge of process. My hope is that this learning circle with provide a place for those of you\, like me\, who are new to process to read and discuss the books and essays of process theologians and philosophers. \n\n\n\nThe focus in our next round will be C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This short book covers a lot of territory and provides an excellent overview of Whitehead’s thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-thought-101-process-relational-philosophy/2024-10-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Korten
DESCRIPTION:Topic: For the Love of Life: Finding Our Way to an Ecological Civilization \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Korten \n\n\n\nDavid Korten’s website headlines “Humans are Earth’s ultimate choice-making species. Our decisions have defining consequences for the whole of Earth’s community of life.” In this season of elections\, he will join us and encourage us to make Life-loving choices that help us find our way to a future defined as Ecological Civilization. \n\n\n\nDavid C. Korten is an American writer\, lecturer\, engaged citizen\, student of psychology and behavioral systems\, a prominent critic of corporate globalization\, and an advocate of Ecological Civilization. He is founder and president of the Living Economies Forum and a full member of the Club of Rome\, a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation\, and an Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. \n\n\n\nHe left a teaching position in the Harvard School of Business to work for thirty years with real-world solutions to economic development in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Upon his return to the US he wrote When Corporations Rule the World\, his critique of a global economy that does not work for those most in need. It became an international best-seller.  See his website\, davidkorten.org\, for a list of the many books he has written to press for economic decision-making that serves life. Korten has been greatly influenced by the 1989 book by John B. Cobb and Herman Daly\, “For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community\, the Environment\, and a Sustainable Future.” John Cobb valued Korten’s participation in the 2015 conference in Claremont on Seizing an Alternative\, Ecological Civilization. \n\n\n\nCo-founder and former board chair of YES! Magazine (now YES! Media)\, he is the author of numerous influential books. A recent defining publication is “Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence.” He holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, and served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Public Health. \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 experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If 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-amp-friends-gathering-2024-10-22/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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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-2/2024-10-24/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101: Process-Relational Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays and books on important themes to process thought. Our reflections will be guided by the Twenty Key Ideas of Process Thought. \n\n\n\nLike many of you I do not have a formal background in process thought. My seminary program did not include readings in process theology. However\, through various offerings from the Cobb Institute and Process and Faith and Open Horizons I have received a good and welcome introduction to process thought. My interest has grown with my increased knowledge of process. My hope is that this learning circle with provide a place for those of you\, like me\, who are new to process to read and discuss the books and essays of process theologians and philosophers. \n\n\n\nThe focus in our next round will be C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This short book covers a lot of territory and provides an excellent overview of Whitehead’s thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-thought-101-process-relational-philosophy/2024-10-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T080000
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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-2/2024-10-31/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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