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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ellyn Polsky\, Sophia Said\, and Jay McDaniel
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Passover\, Ramadan\, and Holy Week: An Interfaith Conversation \n\n\n\nPresenters: Ellyn Polsky\, Sophia Said\, and Jay McDaniel \n\n\n\nThis conversation\, co-sponsored with the Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, will honor holy seasons of Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians.   \n\n\n\nEllyn Polsky will guide our understanding of Passover. She has been teaching in secular and Jewish schools and camps for over 50 years\, most recently as Director of Lifelong Learning at Reform Jewish congregations in St. Louis and then in Little Rock. You can see her in the following 10-minute video about a program for elementary school children. She worked tirelessly to help Sophia Said establish\, teach and have fun in—Interfaith Friendship Camp of Arkansas. An educator at The Interfaith Center\, she has been curriculum director of the camp for the last 6 years.   \n\n\n\nSophia Said\, Executive Director of The Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, will discuss Ramadan. She has received multiple awards recognizing her contributions to civil society. Perhaps you remember her previous conversation with John Cobb & Friends “On Being Muslim in America.” A native of Pakistan who came to America when her husband came to study\, she responded to the 9-11 tragedy by founding the Interfaith Center. Explore Open Horizons website for her story\, her affirmation of “The America I believe in\,” and Jay McDaniel’s “process appreciation” of her vision. Also\, Sophia and Jay reflect on interfaith relations in light of the results of the 2016 US Presidential election. Explore her personal story\, plus course materials she developed with Jay McDaniel for a class they taught at Hendrix College on “Leadership in a Multi-Faith World.”  \n\n\n\nJay McDaniel will discuss Holy Week. He is Professor Emeritus of World Religions at Hendrix College\, board chair for Cobb Institute\, active supporter of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China and of the Becomings Collective for Emerging Artists (becomingscollective.org). He is curator of OpenHorizons.org. He has collaborated often with Sophia Said\, contributing to the programs of the Interfaith Center of Arkansas. See the page with his biodata on the website of Spirituality & Practice.   \n\n\n\nFor basic information about Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian holy seasons\, you may explore these resources available from the Harvard Pluralism Project: \n\n\n\n\nPassover\n\n\n\nRamadan\n\n\n\nAsh Wednesday to Easter Sunday\n\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.
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 3
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mark Anielski
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Economic Strategies We Can Learn from First Nations Peoples \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mark Anielski \n\n\n\nAfter a presentation on Native peoples by Professor Tink Tinker\, the Cobb Institute reached out to Mark Anielski to help us further explore what we can learn from First Nations. He was the guest of John Cobb & Friends on September 29\, 2020. John Cobb calls Mark his “favorite economist” because “he thinks the economy should serve the wellbeing of the people.” Economist Anielski asks about feelings and experiences. He’ll report hopeful things happening among Canada’s First Nations peoples and wherever there are opportunities to develop local economies of resilience and trust in local systems of trade and production.   \n\n\n\nMark Anielski\, a resident of Alberta\, has worked to apply Herman Daly’s economic theories in practical ways.  His work of measuring  well-being extends from First Nations in Canada\, Nunavut (Canada)\, Alberta\, Singapore\, China\, South Korea\, The Netherlands\, Austria\, and French Polynesia (Tahiti).  New Zealand\, Iceland\, Ireland\, and Scotland are advancing well-being budgeting and governance\, common-sense-economics for building a better and happier world.  He’s also consulted with folks in Santa Monica and Pomona. Anielski has authored two books: An Economy of Well-being: Common Sense Tools for Building Genuine Wealth and Happiness (2018) and the award-winning book The Economics of Happiness (2007).  See him on a wide-ranging Green Interview about an “Economy of Love.” \n\n\n\nMark suggests that you explore his Economics of Well-being Podcast conversations with several First Nations people including Chief Christian Sinclair of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba whose Nation he worked with in 2020/21 in conducting a well-being assessment in the process of establishing a working economy of well-being. Here is another with former Chief Larry Sault from Ontario. This one with Lewis Cardinal is about the story of Canada from a First Nations perspective. \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-2023-03-28/
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 2
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ron Nahser
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Medieval Monastic and University Spirituality: Management Practices for Ecological Civilization? \n\n\n\nPresenters: Ron Nahser \n\n\n\nIn a world sharply divided by differing views of economic\, environmental\, and political realities\, Dr. Ron Nahser has been living out his own “calling\,” influenced by early encounter with Whitehead’s pragmatic philosophy\, and continued influence from Benedict’s monastic spirituality\, and Boethius’s liberal arts as practiced in Medieval Universities. He frequently finds time to join John Cobb & friends as we aim to live into our calling toward an ecological civilization. \n\n\n\nRon Nahser is the founding Provost – now Emeritus – of Presidio Graduate School\, the first to offer an accredited MBA in sustainable management. He’s living out his “calling” in various vocations—as advertising executive\, teacher and educational executive\, and scholar/practitioner of American Pragmatism He has a China connection as Professor of Ecological Economics and Pragmatic Inquiry at the Center for Confucian Entrepreneurship and East Asian Culture\, Zhejiang University\, Hangzhou\, China. \n\n\n\nA recent issue of Amplify (vol. 35\, no. 4\, 2022) carries an article he co-authored\, “Reclaiming Values and Vision in Management Education to Create Systems Change.” The issue’s summary of Nahser’s career documents the range of his professional activities. He is Executive Director for Corporantes\, an outgrowth of The Nahser Agency/Advertising. He is Senior Fellow/Director of Urban Sustainable Management Programs\, Institute for Nature and Culture at DePaul University’s Department of Environmental Science and Studies. He lectures and consults with business and academic audiences in the US and internationally on business values\, vision\, marketing strategy\, branding\, social responsibility\, and integrative sustainable management. \n\n\n\nDr. Nahser is the author of Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business (available here at a very reasonable price – also includes the 32 page PathFinder Field Notebook) and Journeys to Oxford: Nine Pragmatic Inquiries into the Practice of Values in Business and Education. He has developed a values and vision-driven strategy method known as PathFinder Pragmatic Inquiry®. Dr. Nahser is also a Fellow of the World Business Academy\, Curator of the Willis Harman Archive\, founding Partner of the Oxford Leadership Academy in the US\, and Strategic Advisor to the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Secretariat. \n\n\n\nHe earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame\, an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management\, a master’s degree in religious studies from Loyola/Mundelein College\, and a PhD in American business philosophy from DePaul University. \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-2023-03-21/
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 1
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tim Burnette
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Politics and Beauty: A Process Mysticism \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tim Burnette \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Tim Burnette is a Minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)\, and is the Core Curator of Way Collective in Santa Barbara\, California—a contemplative community for love and liberation. (You can find reflections on process theology and the Way Collective at Open Horizons.) He earned his D.Min. in Spiritual Renewal\, Contemplative Practice\, & Strategic Leadership from Claremont School of Theology\, and is passionate about bringing sustaining spiritual practices to the work of justice. Tim has served as host for a Theopoetics Podcast for ARC (Arts\, Religion\, Culture)\, and has been a guest presenter for John Cobb & Friends. He was a presenter at the 50th Anniversary CPS Conference on the topic\, “Nonduality as Resistance: Mystical Internals\, Political Externals\, and Process Spirituality in Contemplative Community.” You can find out more about him at his website and follow him on Twitter.  \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-2023-03-14/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bethany Sollereder
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Creating Your Own Theology in Light of Suffering \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bethany Sollereder \n\n\n\nBethany Sollereder is a lecturer in science and religion at the University of Edinburgh.  She specializes in theology concerning evolution and the problem of suffering and is currently working on the theological aspects of restoration ecology.  Bethany received her PhD in Theology from the University of Exeter and an MCS in interdisciplinary studies from Regent College\, Vancouver\, B.C.  She is author of God\, Evolution\, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall and Why Is There Suffering? Pick Your Own Theological Expedition. This latter book\, published by Zondervan (2021)\, is the first “pick your own ending” theology book! Dr. Sollereder was a presenter at the 50th Anniversary CPS Conference on the topic\, “Pentecostal Meets Process: A Pluralist Model of Divine Action.” She was also a panelist at this year’s ORTline23 Open and Relational Theology online conference.  \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-2023-03-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Timothy Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Sharing Process Values in the Real World: A Minister/Activist’s Journey \n\n\n\nPresenters: Timothy Murphy \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Timothy Murphy has been Pastor and Teacher of Plymouth Church (UCC) in Fort Wayne\, Indiana since 2018. Before that he had served as Transitional Pastor of All Peoples Christian Church in Los Angeles\, CA. He earned his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at Claremont School of Theology\, where he taught courses in Religion\, Ethics\, and Politics. For three years he was Executive Director of Progressive Christians Uniting\, a faith and social justice organization based in southern California\, focusing on mass incarceration and climate change. From 2007-2010\, he was the Minister for Youth and Social Justice at Pilgrim UCC in Carlsbad\, CA. Holding standing in both the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)\, Timothy has served in various congregational and ministry settings in Kentucky\, Missouri\, Texas\, and California. He is author of Counter-Imperial Churching for a Planetary Gospel: Radical Discipleship for Today and Sustaining Hope in an Unjust World: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up\, and a children’s story book\, Jesus Learns to Glow.  \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-2023-02-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230221T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bonnie Rambob
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Pastor/Teacher Reflects on Children’s Spirituality and “Screen” Culture \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bonnie Rambob \n\n\n\nRev. Bonnie Rambob shifted her paid job during the pandemic from parish ministry to teaching kindergarten at her local public school. Bonnie enjoys working in\, writing about\, podcasting on\, and exploring areas such as: multi-faith leadership\, the spirituality of children and parenting\, process theology\, political activism\, and progressive Christianity. She co-hosts the podcasts\, Haystacks\, a podcast for former and fringe Seventh-day Adventists\, and Irenicast\, a progressive Christian podcast. She is also co-editor of the book Partnering with God. Bonnie loves climbing trees\, knitting\, and hiking with her partner and two young adult sons. She is a presenter on Day 3 of the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies on the topic “Proximity and Relational Learning Communities: A Process Perspective on Social Presence.”  \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-2023-02-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: What is My Vocation? A Conversation with John Cobb & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Topic: What is My Vocation? A Conversation with John Cobb & Friends \n\n\n\nPresenters: See Below \n\n\n\nFrom John Cobb’s Pilgrim Place campus in Claremont we’ll be ZOOM’ing a live conversation with some “process” friends. Cobb Institute chairperson Jay McDaniel will be guiding our “Conversation in Process.” As preparation he recommends that we read John Cobb’s reflections\, “What Is My Vocation?”  \n\n\n\nConversation partners will include John Cobb\, Ignacio Castuera\, Meijun Fan\, Al Gephart\, John Fahey\, Marcus Ford\, Jacki Gingrich\, Ron Hines\, Catherine Keller\, Janice Lau\, Richard Lau\, Sandra Lubarsky\, Bob Mesle\, Mary Elizabeth Moore\, and Zhihe Wang. Via our usual ZOOM link all of our Friends will be welcome to contribute to the conversation!  \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-2023-02-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230207T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Open & Relational Theology: A State of the Movement Address \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author who has written or edited more than twenty-five books. Find out more about him at his website at thomasjayoord.com.  Oord also directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open & Relational Theology. He won the Outstanding Faculty Award twelve times as a full-time professor and now speaks at institutions across the globe. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love\, open and relational theology\, science and religion\, and freedom and relationships for transformation.  \n\n\n\nOn February 10-11 the Center for Open and Relational Theology will host the International Online Open and Relational Theology Conference (ORTLine23)\, and on July 10-14 it will host the Open and Relational Theology Conference (ORTCON23). For an article on the growing influence of “open and relational” theologians\, see https://ctr4process.org/open-and-relational-theologians-among-most-influential-in-recent-decades/. \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-2022-02-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230131T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Andrew Davis & Andrew Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Center for Process Studies Celebrates 50 Years \n\n\n\nPresenters: Andrew Davis & Andrew Schwartz \n\n\n\nAndrew Schwartz is the executive director of the Center for Process Studies\, and Andrew Davis is the Center’s program director. Check out the CPS website for details of a week that celebrates the 98th birthday of John Cobb\, and pays tribute to David Ray Griffin\, co-founders of the Center\, a faculty program of the Claremont School of Theology. You may register for this in person event in Claremont to get in touch with current and emerging leaders who are extending the process legacy. \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-2023-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Common Good Film Festival Preview \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey \n\n\n\nJeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey will preview the 22nd annual festival with us. The films celebrate the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead\, and will be held February 17-20\, 2022 at the Laemmle Theater in Claremont\, California. See details at the festival website.  \n\n\n\nJeremy Fackenthal is the director of the Common Good Film Festival (CGFF)\, the managing director of the Institute for Ecological Civilization\, and is an independent documentary filmmaker and videographer. Jeremy completed a PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University\, and began using his philosophical background beyond the academy to raise questions and craft narratives. In recent years\, Jeremy’s work has included video content produced for clients and shorter independent projects. In 2017 Jeremy shot and edited Spitting Fire\, a short documentary on spoken word poetry as a means of personal formation for adolescents. His current ongoing project is a fea­ture-length documentary on the life and work of Walter Benjamin and the possibility of art as a site for radical political action. \n\n\n\nJim Fahey is an emerging film critic and curator who works as CGFF’s assistant director. He has spent the past year building his resumé at the University of Edinburgh\, where he completed a Master’s program in Film\, Exhibition & Curation. During that time he served as a film critic for The Student\, the longest-running student newspaper in the UK\, and also began Airplane Mode\, a film-review blog currently available on Substack. \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-2023-01-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221220T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Jay McDaniel\, and You
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Incarnational Adventures \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Jay McDaniel\, and You \n\n\n\nThis will be an interactive experience appropriate to the Christmas season when Christian communities celebrate the Incarnation\, or “God with us.” Retired from her former responsibility as dean of Boston University School of Theology\, Mary Elizabeth Moore is now able to serve on the board of the Cobb Institute\, and she’s finding more time to pursue her love of writing poetry. Currently chair of the Cobb Institute board\, Jay McDaniel\, Emeritus Professor of world religions at Hendrix College\, continues to find ways to extend his teaching vocation\, often by singing–with his dog. Search for “Incarnation” reflections on his Open Horizons website.  \n\n\n\nJay and Mary Elizabeth are both long-time students and colleagues of John Cobb. Imagine your own experiences of Incarnation and come prepared to share the adventure.  \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-2022-12-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221213T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tink Tinker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Moth and the Alligator: Relationship in a Whole Other Key \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tink Tinker \n\n\n\nA Cobb Institute board member suggested that we adopt the practice of “land acknowledgment” to name native tribes dispossessed of their land in our various regions. To assist our reflection\, we turned to Tink Tinker\, a citizen of the Osage Nation (wazhazhe) and Professor Emeritus at Iliff School of Theology. For nearly three decades he volunteered both administratively and as a traditional spiritual leader at Four Winds American Indian Council in Denver\, and has worked closely with the American Indian Movement of Colorado. His topic invites exploration of the clashing worldviews that euro-christians and America’s native peoples bring to the conversation. To get acquainted with Tink Tinker see this lecture at Yale\, this critical conversation about American Indian worldview\, or this panel conversation at Phillips Seminary honoring the 50th Anniversary of Vine Deloria’s God Is Red. In 2020\, The Colonial Compromise was published\, with responses to his 2008 book\, American Indian Liberation Theology.   \n\n\n\nBefore coming to the faculty at Iliff in 1985\, Tinker had earned a B.A. at New Mexico Highlands University\, an M.Div. at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary\, and a Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, which named him its Alum of the Year in 2004. He had been teaching for several years in the Bay area before joining the Iliff faculty in 1985. At this speaker’s bureau website you can find further biographical information\, a list of his books\, and a 4-minute video excerpt of his message to the United Methodist 2012 General Conference. \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-2022-12-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221206T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Zhenbao Jin
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Healing in a Chinese Process Way \n\n\n\nPresenters: Zhenbao Jin \n\n\n\nChinese lawyer Zhenbao Jin earned a Ph.D. in the philosophy of law\, but when he was diagnosed with lymphoma and a variety of other ailments\, he was prompted by Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled to heal himself in a natural way. He found healing in a “process” way that enhances the flow of Qi. His healing story includes a 3000 km bike ride and disciplined meditation grounded in Taoist thought and practice. He translated The Road Less Traveled into Chinese. As an independent researcher\, he has been exploring the practice and research of meditation as well as relevant areas including Taoism\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, anthroposophy\, traditional Chinese medicine\, philosophy (including Whitehead).  \n\n\n\nIn the past ten years\, he has published more than 500 articles in Chinese on meditation\, Taoism\, Confucianism\, philosophy as well as reports of patients in Chinese on his wechat blog. Dr. Jin now lives in Shenzhen\, China\, focusing on the research of meditation and relating issues and giving workshops\, speeches and individual tutoring on natural healing through meditation. Read his brief bio on the Process & Faith website. Last March he led a P&F sponsored “Process Pop-up” session on Daoist meditation.  See his video introducing the basics of meditation based on Taoism: Healing Meditation for Prevention and Healing from CoronaVirus Infection. \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-2022-12-06/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221129T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Fackenthal & Lina Mira
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Well-Being in Pomona: A Community in Progress \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeremy Fackenthal & Lina Mira \n\n\n\nThis is a progress report on a project reported to Cobb & Friends in April\, 2021. Dr. Fackenthal\, as Managing Director of the Institute for Ecological Civilization\, will report on its work in Pomona\, California\, with the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance California hub. Pomona’s Latino-Latina Roundtable is also involved\, and its Executive Director Lina Mira will share in this report about how they are approaching a wellbeing economy in Pomona by developing a community-led vision and a community wealth building strategy in the form of worker-owned cooperatives.  \n\n\n\nJeremy invites you check out this excellent video that celebrates these developments in Pomona.  \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-2022-11-29/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221122T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: John Buchanan
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death\, Psychedelics\, and Sobriety \n\n\n\nPresenters: John Buchanan \n\n\n\nDr. John H. Buchanan is a long-time explorer of process thought and transpersonal psychology. He will discuss his latest book\, Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death\, Psychedelics\, and Sobriety\, published last month by Wipf & Stock in their Perspectives in Process Studies Series. “In this book\, John Buchanan takes us on a journey through the early death of a parent\, the ups and downs of addiction\, the extraordinary revelations of psychedelic experiences\, and the rewards of a sober and meaningful life.” At the publisher’s website\, you’ll find high praise from John Cobb\, Catherine Keller\, and Philip Clayton. Keller invites us to “a bit of a trip!. . .This irresistibly readable narrative of psychedelic exploration\, of a long path ultimately sober and all the more visionary\, opens a stunning new portal into our shared reality. We discover not just a remarkably lucid introduction to Whiteheadian theo-cosmology\, but—aimed right at our self-destructive civilization—the chance of a spiritual awakening.”  \n\n\n\nBuchanan’s extended interview with “Mind Matters” explores the intersection of Whitehead and Transpersonal Psychology. He was a contributing editor of Rethinking Consciousness:  Extraordinary Challenges for Contemporary Science\, published by Process Century Press. And Jay McDaniel expresses appreciation for John Buchanan’s role in planning a Claremont conference on Open Horizons: “Can Exceptional Experience Help Save the World?”? \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-2022-11-22/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tim Eastman & Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Big Bang? Multiple Universes? How Do Scientists Know? \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tim Eastman & Matt Segall \n\n\n\nWe look forward to an informed conversation led by space physicist Tim Eastman and Cobb Institute science advisory committee chair\, Matt Segall. John Cobb thinks scientists are overly confident they know all about a ‘Big Bang’ and ‘multiple universes.’ How are we to understand the ways of scientific exploration and how our universe works? \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-2022-11-15/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Barbara Muraca
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Decolonizing Ecology: Process Ontology and Societal Relationships with Nature \n\n\n\nPresenter: Barbara Muraca \n\n\n\nDr. Barbara Muraca\, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon\, articulates a radical critique of the structural coloniality of the Western concept of nature\, on which both conservationism and the overexploitation of resources are rooted. By drawing on Whitehead’s relational process ontology\, on Gernot Böhme’s phenomenological approach to ecology\, as well as on postcolonial theories\, indigenous philosophies\, and STS Studies she will outline possible trajectories for a decolonization of societal relationships with nature and show their relevance for current environmental justice struggles. \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-2022-11-08/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221101T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Rosemary Radford Ruether Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether \n\n\n\nScholars and friends who worked closely with this eminent ecofeminist theologian will pay tribute to the ways her thought found expression in her actions. Among those who have agreed to share their experience of Rosemary Radford Ruether are Renny Golden\, Antoinette Wire\, Barbara Troxell\, Joann Carlson Brown\, Elaine Padilla\, and Kathy Bergen. We’ll also experience Dr. Ruether’s Harvard lecture about her first engagement with America’s civil rights struggle. \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-2022-11-01/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jonathan Foster
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Theology of Consent: Mimetic Theory in an Open and Relational Universe \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jonathan Foster \n\n\n\nDr. Foster is the first to graduate under Thomas Jay Oord’s supervision in the doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary. His doctoral dissertation\, Theology of Consent: Mimetic Theory in an Open and Relational Universe\, is being published this month by SacraSage Press. Jonathan will be discussing the book\, its context\, and the interesting overtones emanating from René Girard’s mimetic theory and open and relational theology. Tom Oord affirms\, “Foster’s creative ruminations break new ground and inspire transformation.” To find out more about Jonathan see jonathanfosteronline.com. To see other books this best-selling author has written see his author page on Amazon. For a basic introduction to Rene Girard\, see this video\, this simple overview\, or this book. \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-2022-10-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Chris Hedges
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Chris Hedges \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb has recruited this Pulitzer-prize winning journalist\, best-selling author\, activist\, and Presbyterian pastor to shed light on current events in Ukraine by placing it in a broad trajectory of America’s way of being in the world. Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times\, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News\, The Christian Science Monitor\, and NPR. To sample recent examples of his Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism\, see this link to an archive at Transcend Media Services.  He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America showOn Contact.  For an archive of “On Contact” television programs\, introducing “dissident voices\,” go to this link.  You are invited to learn more about Chris Hedges and to follow his writing at The Chris Hedges Report. \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-2022-10-18/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T120000
DTSTAMP:20260416T043452
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Andrew M. Davis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: From Negation to Exemplification: A Deeper Whiteheadian Cosmotheology \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Andrew M. Davis \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-2022-10-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221004T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221004T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Steven J. Dick
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Astrobiology\, Cosmotheology\, and the Biological Universe: Implications for Religion and Theology \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Steven J. Dick \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-2022-10-04/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220927T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220927T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mark VanderSchaaf
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Engaging with the Soul(s) of the City: Lessons from Dallas\, Saint Paul\, New York and Los Angeles \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Mark VanderSchaaf \n\n\n\nIn the early 1990s Mark VanderSchaaf was appointed as the first economic planner for the City of Saint Paul in Minnesota. Drawing upon his admiration for the Herman Daly/John Cobb book For the Common Good\, and the teachings of Carl Jung and Rudolph Steiner\, Mark devised a unique approach to economic development that yielded remarkable dividends for his city and its region. Mark’s presentation will share how his ideas crystallized with the help of mentors at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture\, and how these ideas were then applied to the task of riverfront revitalization in Saint Paul and the entire Upper Mississippi River Valley. Finally\, he will talk about teaching opportunities that subsequently materialized in Los Angeles (2004) and New York City (2013)\, which drew upon this experience. \n\n\n\nLater in his career Mark became the regional planning director for the seven-county Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area (2004-2016) and upon retirement was elected national chair of the American Planning Association’s Regional and Intergovernmental Planning Division. In retirement\, Mark has especially focused on the role that public art can play in the process of community-oriented economic revitalization. From that perspective\, he delivered a keynote speech in Qingdao\, China in January of this year at the International Award for Public Art ceremony and award program. \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-2022-09-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220920T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Md. Abu Sayem
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Religion and Ecological Crisis \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Md. Abu Sayem \n\n\n\nProfessor Sayem’s newly published book\, Religion and Ecological Crisis (Routledge)\, compares perspectives of John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Sayem explores how prescriptions of these scholars\, a Christian and a Muslim\, can contribute alternatively to techno-scientific initiatives in environmental sustainability. Taking Cobb’s “economism” and Nasr’s “scientism” as the key concepts for surveying the roots of the ecological crisis\, the book offers interdisciplinary and interreligious insights into the debates about ecological equilibrium\, motivational awareness in human mind and about entanglements between religion and the environment.  A native of Bangladesh with extensive global experience\, Dr. Sayem is Associate Professor in World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka.  At the University’s website you can find his biographical information\, including research interests\, awards and publications.  \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-2022-09-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220913T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220913T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Evaggelos Vallianatos
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Brewing Climate Chaos and Pandemics in Our Backyards \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Evaggelos Vallianatos \n\n\n\nWriting out of his experience as a scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency (1979-2004)\, Dr. Vallianatos has published Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA (Bloomsbury Press\, 2014)\, an expose of the influence of the chemical-industrial complex on the regulatory agency. He has also written several articles on climate change\, including this one\, published August 4\, which he recommends you read in preparation for our meeting. Valliantos is Greek historian with degrees from University of Illinois (BA\, MA)\, and University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.) is attached. At Harvard University he pursued postdoctoral studies in the history of science\, and he has taught history and the politics of environmental protection at several prominent universities. Early in 2020 Dr. Vallianatos reported to John Cobb & Friends about his experience of organic farms in China and in his native Greece. See what he’s thinking at vallianatos.blogspot.com and muckrack.com/evaggelosvallianatos.  \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-2022-09-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220906T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220906T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sheri Kling and Doug King
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Biblical Narrative and Universal God Identity \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Sheri D. Kling and Doug King \n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, director of Process & Faith and the John Cobb Legacy Fund\, is working on an exciting project with Doug King\, CEO of Presence International\, a growing network that engages emergent\, integral\, and interspiritual organizations and idea leaders to facilitate a “global conversation for a new earth.” Sheri and Doug are offering a course called “The Biblical Narrative and Universal God Identity: Integral Theology and Process Approaches\,” co-sponsored by Process & Faith and the Cobb Institute. The course will be on Zoom\, begins September 13\, and will run for six consecutive Tuesdays at 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern. \n\n\n\nDoug King is steeped in biblical scholarship and worked alongside his father\, Max King\, to develop Presence to offer events\, a podcast\, and other teaching resources. He uses Spiral Dynamics (a developmental model of human consciousness that considers Alfred North Whitehead one of its forerunners) to approach the biblical narrative\, and has developed what he calls “integral theology.” In their discussion with John Cobb & Friends\, Sheri and Doug will provide a brief overview of the exciting material they plan to cover in their upcoming course. \n\n\n\nFrom their perspectives\, both process thought and integral consciousness provide a developmental approach to the evolution of human consciousness. Process philosophy and theology have been used as life-giving tools in interpretation of the biblical narrative and in their teaching together\, Sheri and Doug will investigate the use of integral consciousness models as complementary to biblical interpretation as well. Their primary question will be whether the biblical narrative has always been evolving toward and into universal God identity. The implications of the possible answers to that question can dramatically affect the future of long held Christian views of identity. This is especially true if the biblical narrative points to something beyond separation thinking with regard to identity. For our gathering\, they will introduce the use of models like Spiral Dynamics to trace biblical history\, finding meaning both in its original setting and as a process story of the evolution of spiritual consciousness with regard to God identity. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about Doug King’s organization and its work\, visit https://www.presence.tv/. From there you can explore videos and the Presence podcast (available on iTunes and other podcast platforms). \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-2022-09-06/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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