Meeting Recordings - 2024

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December

12/3

Relational Abrahamic Faiths

David Rosen, Special Interfaith Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi

Osman Örs, Imam at the House of One Foundation in Berlin

Sheri D. Kling, Director of Process & Faith

November

11/27

Yijing and Process Cosmology

Tze-Ki Hon, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University

11/19

Cultivating Beloved Communities in Divided Times

Rolla Lewis, Professor Emeritus in Educational Psychology at California State University, East Bay

Mary Elizabeth Moore, Cobb Institute Board Chair

11/12

Certificate in Process Thought & Practice 2024 - featured - 1080x1080

Certificate Program Commencement

11/05

Metamodern Spirituality & Archaic Futurism

Layman Pascal, Facilitator of the Metamodern Spirituality Labs

October

10/29

A Complexity Lens For Issues of Meaning and Value

Brendan Graham Dempsey, Director of Sky Meadow Institute

10/22

For the Love of Life: Finding Our Way to an Ecological Civilization

David Korten, Founder and President of the Living Economies Forum and a full member of the Club of Rome

10/15

Divestment from Fossil Fuels as Climate Change Strategy

Sharon Delgado, Convener of Fossil Free UMC and retired United Methodist Pastor

10/8

Understanding Religious Trauma

Jeremy Schumacher, Marriage & Family Therapist at Wellness with Jer

10/1

How International Law Supports Citizens Seeking Global Solutions

Rebecca Shoot, Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund

September

9/24

What I Learned When Defrocked and Excommunicated for Being Queer Affirming

Thomas Jay Oord, Director of the Center for Open & Relational Theology

9/17

Moral and Ethical Imperative: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

Audrey E. Kitagawa, President/Founder of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation

9/10

The Tyrant Fears the Poet

Paul Kittlaus, Artist and Board member of Progressive Christians Uniting, Southern California Ecumenical Council, and Pilgrim Pines Camp

9/03

Leadership & Process Thought

Leslie King, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Waco, Cobb Institute Board Member, and Chair of the Cobb Institute Education Council

August

8/27

From Claremont to China: A Case Study of Process Summer Academies in China

Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, and Friends

8/20

Pursuing Peace, Security, and Nuclear Disarmament Through Our Common Humanity

Alyn Ware, Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament

8/13

Akashic Follies: A Fool's Journey into Mysticism

Thomas Atwood, Co-Founder of Fools Mission and Aspiring Playwright

8/6

Process and Neoplatonic Theologies: Panentheism, Theodicy, and Ecology

Jared Morningstar, Communications Director at the Center for Process Studies

July

7/30

Living Earth Movement: A Progress Report

Charles Betterton, Executive Director of the Living Earth Movement

7/23

Teilhard, Technology and Technolatry: The Internet is Not the Noosphere

Ernie Tamminga, Member of the Board of the American Teilhard Association

7/16

A Conversation about Moral Injury

Nancy J. Ramsay, Director of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinity School

7/9

The Legacy of James M. Lawson, Jr.

JUNE

6/25

Life after Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

Brian McLaren, Author, Speaker, Activist, and Public Theologian

6/18

Truth Under Attack: Talking Past Each Other in a Polarized Society

Lynn De Jonghe, Researcher, author, and former administrator in several academic institutions

6/11

AI Today Means Machine Learning

George Strawn, Former director of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program and co-chair of the NITRD interagency committee

6/4

Learning from Living Systems: Biomimicry and the Principles of Ecological Civilization

Andrew Schwartz, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies, and Co-founder and Executive Vice President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization

MAY

5/28

A Path Towards Sustainability and Biodiversity in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Mark VanderSchaaf, Retired Urban and Regional Planner in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area

5/21

Building the Beloved Community

Richard Rose, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of La Verne

5/14

A Conversation on Zionism and Anti-Zionism in a Time of Political Turmoil

Sandra Lubarsky, President of Flagstaff College

Emily Schneider, Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University

Sean Parson, Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Program in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University

Nahum Ward-Lev, Founder and Leader of Beit Midrash of Santa Fe

5/7

I Sing the Body Electric: A Process Relational Critique of Compartmentalized Medicine

Kat Reeves, Community Relations Specialist for the Cobb Institute and Chaplain at Pilgrim Place

April

4/30

Putting Our Emotions on the Couch

Thandeka, Unitarian Universalist Minister and President of Love Beyond Belief

4/23

God After Deconstruction

Thomas J. Oord, Director of the Center for Open & Relational Theology

Tripp Fuller, Host of Homebrewed Christianity podcast

4/16

Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God

Jeff Wells, Lead Pastor of Church of the Village (Greenwich Village in New York City)

Vikki Randall, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church (Altadena, California)

Nichole Torbitzky, Associate Professor of Religion at Lindenwood University

4/9

Local Futures and the Economics of Happiness

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of Local Futures

4/2

Astrotheology Now and Then

Ted Peters, Lutheran Pastor and Co-editor the Journal of Science and Theology

Andrew Davis, Program Director for the Center for Process Studies

March

3/26

Perceptions & Occasions

The Raven Poets: Richard Bunce, Lynn De Jonghe, Ellen Livingston, Richard Luftig, Veronica Michalowski, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Kathleen Reeves, Ernie Tamminga, and Georgette Unis