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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Lynn De Jonghe
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Raise Thriving Children in Turbulent Times: Start with Whitehead \n\n\n\nPresenter: Lynn De Jonghe \n\n\n\nDr.  Lynn De Jonghe’s 40-years of experience with progressive education and a long-time fascination with Whitehead and process thought have come together in a book to be published this spring by Rowan and Littlefield\, Starting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Turbulent Times. This book offers examples of learning events at each stage of Whitehead’s rhythm of education—from romance to precision to generalization—that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of turbulent change. These events are presented in the richness of their unfolding context\, rather than as dry results of manipulating controlled variables. Dr. De Jonghe sets these exemplary events in a vigorous theoretical foundation and proposes specific strategies for success. Her recommendations have relevance not only for parents but also for teachers\, principals\, and educational policy makers.  \n\n\n\nLynn received her BA degree in History from Harvard University and a MS in Library Science from Simmons College before completing her PhD in Education at Cornell University.  She served as the founding Head of East Bay Sierra School\, a predecessor of Prospect Sierra School\, El Cerrito\, one of the preeminent schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She also served as Middle School Head of the Athenian School in Danville and Head of Windrush School in El Cerrito\, CA. Prior to her work in independent schools\, Lynn spent fifteen years in public education administering federal funds to innovative programs\, advocating for project learning as an alternative to textbooks\, and pushing for integration in Massachusetts schools.  \n\n\n\nLynn is a frequent participant in John Cobb & Friends discussions. A few members of our educational development team have previewed her presentation and heartily recommend that it be shared with the rest of us! Download a brief intro to Lynn and her presentation here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2022-01-18/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - James Lawson
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom \n\n\n\nPresenter: James Lawson \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. James Lawson will discuss Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom\, the title of his book whose publication by University of California Press is dated February\, 2022. The book chronicles Lawson’s work as a trainer of students for lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides during Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s\, as well as his work while pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles supporting worker and immigrant rights movements in Los Angeles.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2022-01-11/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Cliff Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Restore Historical Consciousness \n\n\n\nPresenter: Cliff Cobb \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb’s son\, Clifford W. Cobb\, is editor-in-chief of American Journal of Economics and Sociology.  [He is also the son whose questioning in the summer of 1969 set John Cobb on the path summarized in his classic\, Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology (Fortress Press\, 2021 edition of editions published in 1972 and 1995)].  At the turn of the secular year\, Cliff will share John’s thoughts on the importance of “historical consciousness.” The concept has been important in many of John Cobb’s writings\, including in Living Options in Protestant Theology (Westminster\, 1962)\, A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster\, 1965; Westminster John Knox\, 2007); Christ in a Pluralistic Age (Westminster\, 1975); and most recently in a chapter bemoaning “The Fading of Historical Consciousness” in Salvation: Jesus’s Mission and Ours (Process Century Press\, 2020).  An article is being developed to explain what John Cobb means by the “Origins and Characteristics” of Historical Consciousness\, in which it is compared and contrasted to Scientific Rationalism.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2022-01-04/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Christina Hutchins
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Varieties of Divine Enfleshment \n\n\n\nPresenter: Christina Hutchins \n\n\n\nDr. Hutchins was with us during Holy Week\, and she’s returning as we approach Christmas to share poetry on an incarnation theme. \n\n\n\nFind more about Christina Hutchins—prize-winning poet\, process philosopher/theologian\, teacher/workshop leader\, speaker/retreat facilitator—at her website. Here is an excerpt: \n\n\n\n“Christina lives in Albany\, California\, where she served as the first poet laureate\, teaches private workshops\, and offers individual craft consultations. She has worked as a biochemist\, a Congregational (UCC) minister\, and has taught process theology\, philosophies of beauty and critique\, and courses on poetry and theological imagination at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of California at Davis\, an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School\, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. While at Harvard\, she twice won the Billings Preaching Prize\, was named the top graduate as the Thayer Scholar of Divinity\, and was elected by her peers to deliver the graduation address.” \n\n\n\nExplore a treasure trove of her poems here. You might also check out Jay McDaniel’s podcast interview with this insightful poet/pastor/theologian. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2021-12-21/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Callid Keefe-Perry
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Engaging the Optative: Misplaced Concreteness\, Changing the Future\, and the Power of Imagination \n\n\n\nPresenter: Callid Keefe-Perry \n\n\n\nDr. Callid (rhymes with “salad”) Keefe-Perry is Assistant Professor of Contextual Education and Public Theology at Boston College’s School for Theology and Ministry. His teaching and research orbit around explorations of imagination\, spirituality\, and education as sites of individual and social formation. Before Keefe-Perry’s career in the academy\, he was a public school teacher and worked in leadership for several arts-based non-profits. He was the primary architect of the 2017 merger that became ARC: Arts | Religion | Culture. His first book\, Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer\, details the academic history of the field of theopoetics\, arguing for its utility in contemporary Christian congregational life. Currently he serves as the assistant director of the Religion and Education Collaborative and is the Senior Editor for the Journal of the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (ARTS). Confessionally\, Keefe-Perry’s outlook is greatly shaped by The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)\, especially streams of that tradition emphasizing Christocentric mysticism. He is a Member of Fresh Pond Meeting; a host of the worship experiment\, Three Rivers; and an endorsed public Traveling Minister within and beyond his denomination. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2021-12-14/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Celebrating the Gifts of John Gingrich
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Celebrating the Gifts of John Gingrich \n\n\n\nOn December 8\, 2020 we were shocked to learn of the untimely death of Dr. John Gingrich\, who served as Chairman of the Board in the Cobb Institute’s first year. We were blessed to have his leadership in formative stages of the Institute. This former student of John Cobb served the University of La Verne for 37 years—as Campus Minister\, then Department Chair and Division Chair\, Professor of Religion and Philosophy\, and from 1987 through 2004 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. To access a brief video tribute scroll to the bottom of the webpage about Our Team. An obituary can be found here. With his wife Jacki Gingrich and others who knew him well\, we will celebrate John’s gifts of spirituality\, the arts\, and education\, all informed by process theology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2021-12-07/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Elizabeth McAnally
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Loving Water Across Religions \n\n\n\nPresenter: Elizabeth McAnally \n\n\n\nElizabeth McAnally\, PhD is the author of Loving Water across Religions: Contributions to an Integral Water Ethic (Orbis Press\, Ecology and Justice series\, 2019). She lives in Berkeley\, CA\, and works as the newsletter editor and website manager for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. She also manages the websites for Thomas Berry and the Great Work\, Journey of the Universe\, the American Teilhard Association\, and the Institute for Religion and Science. Elizabeth earned her doctorate at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, and has taught classes on philosophy\, religion\, and environmental ethics at Pacifica Graduate Institute\, the University of North Texas\, the University of San Francisco\, and Diablo Valley College. She practices yoga and Chinese internal arts (taiji\, qigong\, bagua\, xingyi\, and yiquan) and teaches Integral Taiji & Qigong classes in Berkeley and online. Elizabeth is also an avid musician and enjoys singing and playing the flute. \n\n\n\nIn addition to the link to her book on this week’s topic\, she suggests you explore the following links:  \n\n\n\n“Loving Water Across Religions.” Spotlights interview with Sam Mickey. January 18\, 2021. “Integral Water Ethic.” Deep Water Initiative Podcast with Charlie Forbes. March 10\, 2019.Integral Taiji & Qigong classes and videos.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2021-11-30/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Sam Mickey
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate \n\n\n\nPresenter: Sam Mickey \n\n\n\nDr. Mickey is adjunct professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He’s been studying ecological wisdom at the intersection of religion\, ecology\, and philosophy. He also has taught at Dominican University of California\, Pacifica Graduate Institute\, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a Research Associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology\, he has worked with the Journey of the Universe project\, and he has done much editorial work. In 2020 he co-edited with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Cambridge\, UK: Open Book Publishers; Download a PDF version here) He also edited Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate (San Francisco: University of San Francisco Press\, 2020). You can listen to a recording of an October launch event for this book here. His book\, On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology (Rowman & Littlefield International\, 2014)\, engages the process thinking of Whitehead\, Gilles Deleuze\, Catherine Keller\, and others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2021-11-23/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Should Christians Be Compassionate if Their God Is Not? \n\n\n\nPresenter: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nThis is the topic of Dr. Oord’s presentation at last month’s virtual Parliament of World Religions. Although major Christian theologians say God has no emotions\, some admit that an emotionless God cannot be compassionate. But if Christians are to follow the biblical command to imitate God in love\, should they not be compassionate? Explore Christian views of divine compassion in light of the Christian tradition and open and relational theology. How can the Christian God be rightly thought of as compassionate? Can Christians imitate God by fighting climate change and acting with compassion for victims?   \n\n\n\nOord explores this in light of open and relational theology\, a subject of his recent book. Learn more at his website for the Center for Open and Relational Theology. For access to his latest essays\, blogs\, and multiple short podcasts\, see thomasjayoord.com. Oord completed his Ph.D. in religion at Claremont Graduate School under supervision of David Ray Griffin. He is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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. \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-2021-11-16/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Damian Geddry
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Google My Soul: Reaching A New Generation of Spiritual Seekers \n\n\n\nPresenter: Damian Geddry \n\n\n\nDamian Geddry is a marketing professional who “stumbled into Claremont School of Theology and became fascinated by the disconnect between mainstream protestant churches and their communities.” He created a series of classes\, workshops and seminars that address the church disconnect by using research and marketing techniques. \n\n\n\nDamian Geddry cut his marketing teeth at Gray Advertising in New York\, one of the largest ad agencies in the world. He currently works in a Toyota digital ecosystem the intersection of advertising\, social media\, website\, CRM\, and search engine optimization. He explains why “nonprofit organizations—from mainline protestant churches to environmental groups—have a visibility challenge. They are often invisible to Google…and social media.” How can we listen before we speak? Research before we reach out? So\, can you Google your soul? Let’s talk about it! \n\n\n\nIn our conversation Paul Capetz\, pastor of Christ Church by the Sea\, a United Methodist church in Newport Beach\, will also share how he’s been applying what he’s learning from Damian.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-11-09/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Richard Rose & Jan Chase
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Parliament of World Religions \n\n\n\nPresenters: Richard Rose & Jan Chase \n\n\n\nRichard Rose and Jan Chase will share the way the Parliament of World Religions is enabling Healthy\, Compassionate Communities—Interfaithfully. They have both participated in several gatherings of the Parliament\, and they created presentations for the 8th Parliament\, held virtually October 16-18. Learn more about “The World’s Premier Interfaith Convening Organization” at the Parliament website.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-11-02/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Can a Christian be a Buddhist\, too?
DESCRIPTION:What is a Process Pop-Up?\n\n\n\nProcess pop-ups are hour-long\, informal gatherings that “pop up” occasionally\, and are available to interested and curious minds.  They are exploratory and open-ended\, like process philosophy itself. Their subjects range from poetry to science\, theology to ecology\, music to biology. They are facilitated by Jay McDaniel and sponsored by the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\nWhat is this Pop-Up about?\n\n\n\nOur question is: Can a Christian be a Buddhist\, Too? Process thought offers a unique way of understanding and appreciating Buddhist insights concerning impermanence\, the primacy of the moment\, inter-becoming\, no-self\, the listening side of love\, and the importance of mindfulness\, while also understanding and appreciating Christian understandings of God in Christ as a bodhisattva-like Great Compassion who loves each and all with a tender care that nothing be lost\, and the life of discipleship as one of practicing the presence of God in daily life. In this hour we will explore the possibility that\, with help from process theology\, a Christian can indeed be a Buddhist\, too. Our springboard for discussion and frame of reference will be Can a Christian be a Buddhist\, Too? on Open Horizons. \n\n\n\nWhen is this Pop-Up\n\n\n\nOctober 27th at 3:00 PM Pacific / 5:00 PM Central \n\n\n\nResources to Consider\n\n\n\nCan a Christian be a Buddhist\, Too?\, article on Open Horizons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuddhism can help Christians become better Christians by helping them become better listeners\, more sensitive to the mutual becoming of all things\, more open to fresh possibilities (initial aims) for wisdom\, compassion\, and creativity in daily life. Yes\, Christians can be Buddhists\, too. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to receive Zoom meeting information.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-2021-10-27/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ernie Tamminga
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teilhard & Whitehead—A Dialogue \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ernie Tamminga \n\n\n\nEarnie Tamminga has been a fan of Teilhard de Chardin for decades\, and he also participates regularly in living room dialogues with Whitehead scholar\, David Ray Griffin. Get a head start on the learning circle that Dr. Tamminga will be facilitating for the Cobb Institute next month on Teilhard’s classic work The Human Phenomenon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-10-26/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T182336
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SUMMARY:Educational Development Meeting – Lynn De Jonghe
DESCRIPTION:We’re very excited that Lynn De Jonghe has agreed to join us this month to give a presentation on her forthcoming book\, Starting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times\, to be published with Hamilton Books\, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield.Dr. Lynn Sargent De Jonghe has had a career in progressive education that spans more than forty years. She served as the founding Head of East Bay Sierra School\, which later merged with another school to form Prospect Sierra School\, to become one of the preeminent schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to her work in independent schools\, Lynn spent fifteen years in public education administering federal funds to innovative programs\, advocating for project learning as an alternative to textbooks\, and pushing for integration in Massachusetts schools. She received her BA degree in History from Harvard University and a MS in Library Science from Simmons College before completing her PhD in Education at Cornell University. Her doctoral work on children’s problem solving led her to push for challenging educational programs that encourage all students to pursue learning in depth and to use problem solving skills\, collaborative learning\, and exploration of values in an integrated curriculum. More broadly she is committed to social justice\, to moving society from divisiveness to compassion\, and to saving the sentient and becoming-sentient life on our planet.We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a stimulating presentation by one of the process movement’s foremost experts on education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access our events is made available via email. To find out about this event\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular updates about the Institute’s activities\, please click here.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/event-educational-development-meeting-2021-10-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T182336
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Mirian Vilela
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Earth Charter’s Gifts for the Planet \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Mirian Vilela \n\n\n\nSince 1996 Brazilian Mirian Vilelas has been working with the Earth Charter movement to promote the United Nations’ sustainability goals. She is now the Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat and the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at UPEACE. Earth Charter has produced many educational webinars in cooperation with EcoCiv and others. Learn more of Earth Charter’s work\, including the roll out of a new Human Development Index and preparations for the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow in November. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-10-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T182336
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SUMMARY:The Process of Dying
DESCRIPTION:Two Sessions Examining the Harmful Impact of Modern Views of Death and Offering Healthy Alternatives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this two-session workshop\, the Reverends Joelle Johns and Kathleen Reeves will critically examine the denial of death by medical technology\, problems with the for-profit death industry\, its negative impact on the environment\, and offer healthy alternatives for the environment and our psyche that are based on the insights of Buddhism and process thought. \n\n\n\nYes\, it’s that conversation\, the one no one wants to have. But this one comes with a different perspective: a process and Buddhist outlook on the death industry’s impact on the environment and alternatives. Death and dying has been taken out of the hands of families and our ancestral wisdom has been lost. We don’t know how to die anymore. That often leads to painful\, exhausting\, and invasive but fruitless procedures from a medical industry that perceives death as failure. It leads to environmentally devastating practices that feeds a for-profit funeral industry. There is a way to reclaim our own dying\, to have a good death with quality of life toward the end\, and give back to the earth through green options. We also address the “Death File” and what should be included. \n\n\n\nAbout the Instructors\n\n\n\nJoelle Johns is an interfaith minister\, community/hospice chaplain\, certified end of life doula\, and pastoral thanatologist. \n\n\n\nKathleen Reeves is an interfaith minister\, hospice chaplain\, bereavement coordinator\, and death midwife. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctober 7th and 14th at 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PacificRSVP below to receive Zoom meeting information.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to receive Zoom meeting information.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you find this workshop valuable\, please consider supporting it by making a donation.\n\n\n\n\nDONATE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop was made possible by a collaboration between friends.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/the-process-of-dying-2021-10-14/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T170000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Olson and Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:What is a Process Pop-Up?\n\n\n\nProcess pop-ups are hour-long\, informal gatherings that “pop up” occasionally\, and are available to interested and curious minds.  They are exploratory and open-ended\, like process philosophy itself. Their subjects range from poetry to science\, theology to ecology\, music to biology. They are facilitated by Jay McDaniel and sponsored by the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\nWhat is this Pop-Up about?\n\n\n\nOur theme is process and poetry though the lens of an essay on the the New England poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). He was a key member of the Black Mountain School of American Poetry (1933-1956) also one of the most philosophical poets of his generation. Olson’s poetry is heavily influenced by the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. Another poet\, Robin Blaser\, describes the influence of Whitehead on Olson in his essay: The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead  (1983). This process pop-up is an informal exploration of Blaser’s essay\, found on the link above and also on this page in Open Horizons: Turning Process into Poetry: Charles Olson. \n\n\n\nWhen is this Pop-Up\n\n\n\nOctober 6th and October 13th at 3:00 PM Pacific / 5:00 PM Central \n\n\n\nResources to Consider\n\n\n\nTurning Process Into Poetry\, an article on Open Horizons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting poetry is not simply a personal act: it is cosmological act.  It is a moment-by- moment process of concrescence\, inspired by breath itself\, not by rules of meter and rhyme\, with the outcome\, the poem\, a gift to the world\, which is likewise in process\, and which furthers the creative advance into novelty. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to receive Zoom meeting information.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-olson-and-whitehead-2021-10-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211012T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - George Strawn
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Unemployment When People are Superfluous \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): George Strawn \n\n\n\nGeorge O. Strawn is the director emeritus of the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine where he focused on Open Science and FAIR data. He continues this work an an NAS scholar. Prior to joining the Academies\, Dr. Strawn was the 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. Dr. Strawn held these positions while on leave from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Whitehouse. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-10-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T180000
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SUMMARY:The Process of Dying
DESCRIPTION:Two Sessions Examining the Harmful Impact of Modern Views of Death and Offering Healthy Alternatives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this two-session workshop\, the Reverends Joelle Johns and Kathleen Reeves will critically examine the denial of death by medical technology\, problems with the for-profit death industry\, its negative impact on the environment\, and offer healthy alternatives for the environment and our psyche that are based on the insights of Buddhism and process thought. \n\n\n\nYes\, it’s that conversation\, the one no one wants to have. But this one comes with a different perspective: a process and Buddhist outlook on the death industry’s impact on the environment and alternatives. Death and dying has been taken out of the hands of families and our ancestral wisdom has been lost. We don’t know how to die anymore. That often leads to painful\, exhausting\, and invasive but fruitless procedures from a medical industry that perceives death as failure. It leads to environmentally devastating practices that feeds a for-profit funeral industry. There is a way to reclaim our own dying\, to have a good death with quality of life toward the end\, and give back to the earth through green options. We also address the “Death File” and what should be included. \n\n\n\nAbout the Instructors\n\n\n\nJoelle Johns is an interfaith minister\, community/hospice chaplain\, certified end of life doula\, and pastoral thanatologist. \n\n\n\nKathleen Reeves is an interfaith minister\, hospice chaplain\, bereavement coordinator\, and death midwife. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctober 7th and 14th at 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PacificRSVP below to receive Zoom meeting information.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to receive Zoom meeting information.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you find this workshop valuable\, please consider supporting it by making a donation.\n\n\n\n\nDONATE\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop was made possible by a collaboration between friends.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/the-process-of-dying/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T170000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Olson and Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:What is a Process Pop-Up?\n\n\n\nProcess pop-ups are hour-long\, informal gatherings that “pop up” occasionally\, and are available to interested and curious minds.  They are exploratory and open-ended\, like process philosophy itself. Their subjects range from poetry to science\, theology to ecology\, music to biology. They are facilitated by Jay McDaniel and sponsored by the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\nWhat is this Pop-Up about?\n\n\n\nOur theme is process and poetry though the lens of an essay on the the New England poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). He was a key member of the Black Mountain School of American Poetry (1933-1956) also one of the most philosophical poets of his generation. Olson’s poetry is heavily influenced by the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. Another poet\, Robin Blaser\, describes the influence of Whitehead on Olson in his essay: The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead  (1983). This process pop-up is an informal exploration of Blaser’s essay\, found on the link above and also on this page in Open Horizons: Turning Process into Poetry: Charles Olson. \n\n\n\nWhen is this Pop-Up\n\n\n\nOctober 6th and October 13th at 3:00 PM Pacific / 5:00 PM Central \n\n\n\nResources to Consider\n\n\n\nTurning Process Into Poetry\, an article on Open Horizons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriting poetry is not simply a personal act: it is cosmological act.  It is a moment-by- moment process of concrescence\, inspired by breath itself\, not by rules of meter and rhyme\, with the outcome\, the poem\, a gift to the world\, which is likewise in process\, and which furthers the creative advance into novelty. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to receive Zoom meeting information.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-olson-and-whitehead-2021-10-06/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - John Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Remove the Obstacles! \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): John Cobb \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb invites his Friends to consider a letter he intends to send to Presidents Xi and Biden to Remove the Obstacles to Ecological Civilization. The idea started simply as a “benediction” at the close of a service where he had preached for Church of the Village in New York City. In place of a standard biblical quotation as a closing word of blessing\, he simply named a hope—that President Xi of China and President Biden of the United States would meet and commit to saving the planet! \n\n\n\nThe letter begins\, “The habitability of the planet can no longer be taken for granted. Both of you have done\, and are doing\, much to counter the profound threat to the future. We are at a crossroads. The two of you have made possible an historical change that might save us all from unimaginable disasters. PLEASE lead us into the new possibility you have created.” \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb\, a distinguished member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, has a lot of credibility in China.  Of the 2000 persons attending the 2015 Claremont Conference on “Seizing an Alternative\,” 300 were from China.  A 2019 article\, “Red China is turning green\,” quotes a speech by President Xi that “could have been written by John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, an American theologian\, philosopher and environmentalist who is highly influential in China.”  Even in this year of extreme isolation for John’s residential community\, he has kept up a steady pace of lectures to Chinese audiences. \n\n\n\nCome join John\, Bonnie Tarwater\, and Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan to help polish the letter and strategize its sending. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-10-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Whither Science? \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Matt Segall \n\n\n\nDr. Matt Segall chairs the Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee. On the faculty of California Institute of Integral Studies he is Assistant Professor in the  Philosophy and Religion Department. His doctoral dissertation (2016) in the program on Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness has been revised into the book Physics of the World-Soul\, published by Sacra Sage (May\, 2021) in Kindle and paperback editions.  An earlier edition subtitled the book\, “The Relevance of Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism to Contemporary Scientific Cosmology.” John Cobb’s Foreword to the book calls it “at the Cutting edge!”   Explore Matt’s podcasts and articles at Footnotes2Plato.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-09-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210921T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210921T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Imagine! Process Church?!
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Imagine! Process Church?! \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Bonnie Tarwater\, Tim Burnette\, Jeff Wells\, Alexis Lillie\, and Jorge Lockward \n\n\n\nWe will hear from spiritual pioneers who are reimagining Christian ministries in a “process” way. Bonnie Tarwater will share from the John Cobb Farm in Oregon her experience founding Church for Our Common Home\, committed to the earth\, the divine feminine\, and the arts. Tim Burnette will report the experience of the Way Collective\, “a contemplative community for love and liberation working for the common good in Santa Barbara\, CA.” Pastors Jeff Wells and Alexis Lillie\, and musician Jorge Lockward will share their experience at Church of the Village\, a United Methodist congregation at New York City’s Greenwich Village\, which has begun exploring what it would mean to be an intentionally “process” church. (To access a sermon series\, “In the Way of Jesus\,” that will include messages by John Cobb on September 12\, 19\, and 26 at 10:30 a.m. ET\, click here.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-09-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210914T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210914T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jonathan Ellerby
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Jonathan Ellerby \n\n\n\nTopic: Beyond Feel-Good Spirituality? \n\n\n\nCobb Institute has appreciated the work of Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat through the community created by their Spirituality and Practice website for resourcing spirituality explorations. Jay McDaniel\, who writes “Process Musings” for the site\, invites the new S&P Executive Director\, Jonathan Ellerby\, into dialogue about emerging themes in spirituality work. For a world in need\, does spirituality have a place in creating compassionate communities and ecological civilization? Dr. Ellerby brings to the discussion\, not only his academic background as a Ph.D. scholar of religious traditions\, but also his exploration of multiple native spiritualities\, his writing of the best-selling Return to the Sacred: Ancient Pathways to Spiritual Awakening\, and his practical workshops. You may further explore Dr. Ellerby’s journeys in holistic wellness and spirituality via videos on his website\, where you may also download free his book Religious Experience. \n\n\n\nJay McDaniel has written extensively about the Brussats’ “Wheel of Spirituality” on his Open Horizons website. Explore with us future hopes for Spirituality and Practice as they move forward with Dr. Ellerby’s leadership! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-09-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210907T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Rolla Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Rolla Lewis \n\n\n\nTopic: Lifescaping–Creating a World We Want to Live In \n\n\n\nDr. Rolla Lewis is Professor Emeritus in Educational Psychology at California State University\, East Bay\, and a Taos Institute Associate. His current research and scholarly interests include public education advocacy\, participatory leadership\, and action research practices using the participatory inquiry process to lifescape school communities in ways that enhance student learning power\, wellness\, and connectedness to the living environment and the communities where they live. He was a School Counseling Coordinator at Portland State University\, 1995-2006\, and at CSUEB\, 2006-2014.  \n\n\n\nDr. Lewis’s life experience includes deep ecology\, Taoism\, the practice of Tai Chi\, post-theistic Christianity\, narrative\, and social constructionism. He looks forward to learning more about Whitehead’s philosophy of education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-09-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210831T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210831T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T182336
CREATED:20210817T222354Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Mary Elizabeth Moore \n\n\n\nTopic: Touching the Holy in Unholy Times \n\n\n\nThrough poetry and photography\, Mary Elizabeth invites us to explore the sacred landscape of creation and the godness that fills every being and the cosmic whole. We will especially focus on the power of spiritual attuning and deepening to foster life-giving habits in individuals and societies – habits of delighting\, mourning\, healing\, and social revolution. Mary Elizabeth is Dean Emerita and Professor of Theology and Education in Boston University School of Theology. On sabbatical now\, she is writing two books that are enriching her life and will hopefully enrich others. They are a book of meditations from which the Tuesday readings and photos come\, and a monograph on sacrality and revolution. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-08-31/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Andrew Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Andrew Schwartz \n\n\n\nTopic: Resourcing “Process & Faith” \n\n\n\nFor many years the Center for Process Studies has provided resources for faith communities interested in process-relational approaches to exploring their commitments. The program was called “Process and Faith\,” offering “Real Spirituality for Real Life.” CPS is partnering with the Cobb Institute to expand the reach to diverse faith communities with resources that will help them explore life and express their faith through a process-relational lens. We look forward to an update from Dr. William Andrew Schwartz\, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies and Assistant Professor of Process Studies & Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology. Cobb Institute board members Jay McDaniel and Kat Reeves are also playing a key role. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-08-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210817T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Eugene Shirley
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Eugene Shirley \n\n\n\nTopic: What’s Up with Pando? \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb is the Founding Board Chair of Pando Populus\, and Eugene Shirley is its Founding President. Eugene will update us on Pando Days and other projects of Pando\, an organization named after Earth’s largest living organism. Pando follows a process to enhance “Southland sustainability” among communities in Los Angeles County. They have developed multiple partnerships to work on Los Angeles County’s Sustainability Goals. “We have a process for creating and accelerating bold solutions to countywide sustainability challenges. The process includes leveraging the County’s talent pool in new ways to deliver innovative ideas and practical plans with measurable impact.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-08-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210810T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Lisa Landoe Hedrick
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Lisa Landoe Hedrick \n\n\n\nTopic: The Artisanship of Facthood \n\n\n\nDr. Lisa Landoe Hedrick will explore “The Artisanship of Facthood: Thinking with Whitehead on the Fragility of a Common World.”  It’s a timely theme articulated in her June 3 article in Sightings\, “Alfred North Whitehead and the ‘Facts’:  How an old philosophical trap continues to ensnare us today.”  (Before Tuesday\, please read it!)  Her conclusion?  “If we are to make our way out of this era of ‘alternative facts\,’ then we must beware the trap of appealing to the world of facts as some kind of bedrock. We would do better to remember that ‘facts’ themselves are constituted by the social relationality of belonging. In other words\, we will not be able to persuade each other with facts alone\, but must begin with what it means to be in relation with one another.” \n\n\n\nDr. Landoe Hedrick will elaborate on the context of the article\, which draws upon her recent book\, Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality\, and how it relates to her intellectual concerns going forward. Reviewing the book\, Nancy Frankenberry (Dartmouth College) said\, “Not since the pioneering work of the late George W. Shields has a Whitehead scholar tackled the critical relation of Whitehead to analytic philosophy. Hedrick does it here in a thoroughly up-to-date and decisive way with a brilliant focus on the meaning of intentionality and the need to make sense of the relationship between mind and world.” \n\n\n\nLisa Landoe Hedrick (Ph.D. U of Chicago\, 2019)\, is now a Divinity Teaching Fellow in the College at the University of Chicago.  Her current research explores the relationship between Anglo-American theories of language\, nature\, and metaphysics.  She is Book Review Editor of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy\, the journal of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-08-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210803T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ellie Leaning & Anna Hixson
DESCRIPTION:Presenter(s): Ellie Leaning & Anna Hixson \n\n\n\nTopic: EcoCiv’s Water Initiatives: Help for Our Drought? \n\n\n\nWith drought in Southwest US at historic levels\, what can we learn from global water initiatives of the Institute for Ecological Civilization? Ellie Leaning\, Projects Director for EcoCiv\, is also Project Director for W12+\, “a movement that collects\, catalyzes\, and incubates urban water solutions.” She will be joined by Anna Hixson\, an EcoCiv Research and Development Associate. For more information about Leaning and Hixson see team members. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation 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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-08-03/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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