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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-11-28/
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CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-11-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-10-31/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-10-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-10-03/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sam Coker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: John Coltrane’s Love Supreme: A Process Approach to (Popular) Music. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sam Coker \n\n\n\nArguably a dominant “religion” of contemporary culture is popular music: jazz\, rock\, metal\, indie\, rap\, country\, etc. People form identities and communities around it\, and enjoy touches of transcendence while listening to it. It is\, in a certain sense\, the sacred scripture for many around the world: albeit sonic not textual. Recently Sam Coker\, a recent graduate of Garrett-Evangelical seminary\, with a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theological Studies\, wrote a thesis on theology and popular music. His research interests include hermeneutics and the intersection of contemporary theology and music\, which culminated in a master’s thesis entitled “Keeping Time: A Theological Reading of Temporality in Popular Music.” Building upon that MA thesis\, he will explore the role of popular music in contemporary culture\, in dialogue with Jay McDaniel\, who was Sam’s professor of religious studies at Hendrix College. Using samples from jazz to metal music\, they will discuss (1) how music works with a yearning for restoration with the divine reality and can\, at times\, embody that restoration in sonic form; (2) how music elicits a dual dialectic of the apophatic and cataphatic; and (3) how temporality itself\, understood as a lived passage from present to past to future\, is at the heart of all music.   \n\n\n\nIn developing his themes\, he uses John Coltrane’s Love Supreme as one of his examples. Sam will introduce the themes and Jay will link with process thought. Sam currently lives in Chicago and splits his time between working in the chaplain’s office at a senior living facility and as a barista at a midsize coffee company. In his spare time\, he listens to tons of music\, goes to a lot of concerts\, and collects vinyl records. He is excited to collaborate with Dr. Jay McDaniel\, who was Sam’s professor of religious studies at Hendrix College.   \n\n\n\nHe is a certified candidate for ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church and one day hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in theology and ethics.To further get acquainted with Sam Coker\, see this link to his thesis: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2819964804. Or check out his metal article here:https://www.openhorizons.org/metal-music-a-hunger-for-transgressive-spiritual-spaces.html. \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-2023-09-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230919T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-09-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Topic: To Repair Earth\, Learn from Trees\, Ants\, and Diverse Humans! \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mary Elizabeth Moore \n\n\n\nCobb Institute Board Member\, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Moore\, will share her thoughts presented in her keynote address to the International Academy of Practical Theology\, in Seoul\, Korea in June 2023. The conference focused on practical wisdom in the Anthropocene. Dr. Moore asks\, “What do trees\, ants\, and diverse human communities teach about the natural world and its care? The year 2023 offered the hottest spring and summer on record for the Northern Hemisphere; animals\, forests\, and people died in shocking numbers in the landmark heat. Such a year is a non-gentle reminder of the urgency of ecological understanding and action. Familiar tropes are no longer adequate to provide guidance. The planet insists that humans face critical questions: how will we deepen our knowing and understanding and how will we find the requisite courage and capacities to protect\, heal\, and repair the earth and solar system?” She argues that the place to begin is with the non-human natural world and the peoples who live closest to the earth. “In my current work\, I turn particularly to trees\, ants\, and diverse human communities to upturn anthropocentric\, individualistic\, and industrial-technocratic dominance.” \n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth Moore\, is Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Theology and chair of the Cobb Institute’s Strategic Planning process. \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-2023-09-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Patricia Adams Farmer
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Grief\, Beauty\, and a Process Theology for the People. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Patricia Adams Farmer \n\n\n\nJay McDaniel appreciates the way Patricia Adams Farmer makes process theology accessible to lay people. Here are links to three of her essays that provide a springboard for discussion. Jay reports\, “One deals with grief in the death of her mother years ago; my wife Kathy has a copy of it in her wallet\, finding it so helpful in dealing with Kathy’s mother’s death. Another is Patricia telling the story of going blind through glaucoma. The third spells out the role Beauty plays in process theology. Explore these readings and come prepared for conversation!  \n\n\n\nhttps://www.openhorizons.org/grief-takes-a-road-trip1.html \n\n\n\nhttps://www.openhorizons.org/beauty-in-the-darkness-patricia-adams-farmer.html \n\n\n\nhttps://www.openhorizons.org/my-religion-is-beauty-patricia-adams-farmer.html \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-2023-09-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-4/2023-09-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230829T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Lynn DeJonghe
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Critical Thinking as an Integrative Process:  Debating Wolves in Yellowstone. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Lynn DeJonghe \n\n\n\nA frequent presenter for Cobb Institute on educational matters\, Lynn DeJonghe will share the lecture she gave at this month’s International Whitehead Conference in Munich.  She thinks of this as the “missing 15th chapter” of her book\, Starting with Whitehead:  Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times (Hamilton Books\, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield.)  She brings Whitehead’s wisdom to the educational task by reflecting on the experience of 8th graders debating this resolution:  \n\n\n\n\n“Resolved: In light of the successful reintegration of gray wolves into Yellowstone Park and surrounding areas\, gray wolves should be removed from the endangered species list in Wyoming\, Montana\, and Idaho.” \n\n\n\n\nDr. Lynn Sargent De Jonghe has had a long 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. \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-2023-08-29/
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CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230822T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ellen Brown
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Banking on the People:  Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Ellen Brown \n\n\n\nEllen Brown is the founder of the Public Banking Institute and the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. She developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In the best-selling Web of Debt (2007\, 2012)\, she turned those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust\,” showing how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves and how we the people can get it back.Her latest book is Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age and her 400+ blog articles are at EllenBrown.com.  She is visiting Claremont in conjunction with the visit of Wall Street veteran Scott Smith\, who will be speaking on Friday\, August 25 at Claremont Presbyterian Church about Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All 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-2023-08-22/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230815T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230815T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Barkley Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Is God in Control? A Pastoral Appreciation of the Process Understanding of God. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Barkley Thompson \n\n\n\n A sermon by his former student caught the attention of Jay McDaniel\, who posted a portion of the Rev. Barkley Thompson’s sermon\, affirming the pastoral wisdom in a process understanding of God. See the sermonic moment\, asking “Is God in Control?” on the Open Horizons website here. After a decade as dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Houston\, Texas\, the Rev. Thompson has returned to his home state of Arkansas\, where he is now rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Little Rock. Come prepared to join selected respondents in reacting to this pastor’s message to help folks through real grief. Barkley Thompson recommends this website as an introduction to his ministry\, which includes authoring several professional articles and three books. The publication date for his most recent book\, How Can We Know The Way?: Reflections on Belief\, Salvation and Eternal Life\, is August 22\, 2023. \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-2023-08-15/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-3/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230801T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: William Andrew Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Center for Process Studies Ventures Forward \n\n\n\nPresenters: William Andrew Schwartz \n\n\n\nIn February the Center for Process Studies celebrated 50 years as a faculty program of the Claremont School of Theology (CST)\, founded by John Cobb and David Griffin. The relocation of CST this summer to a new location in West Los Angeles is accompanied by re-affirmation of the Center’s mission under new circumstances. Dr. William Andrew Schwartz\, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies\, will share emerging developments for its future programming and impact. Andrew has overall strategic and operational responsibility for CPS\, including development and implementation of the CPS mission\, programs\, and strategic vision.  \n\n\n\nSchwartz is also Assistant Professor of Process Studies & Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology\, and Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. He was a principal organizer of the Seizing an Alternative conference\, from which his book emerged. His recent work has been focused on high-impact philosophy and the role of big ideas in the transition toward ecological civilization. Co-editor of Putting Philosophy to Work\, and co-author of What Is Ecological Civilization? His academic interests are broad\, and include Comparative Religious Philosophies\, Process Thought\, Ecology\, Education\, and more. His recent work has been focused on high-impact philosophy and the role of big ideas in the transition toward ecological civilization.  \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-2023-07-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Leslie King & Rolla Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process Certificate Program: Prospects for its Future \n\n\n\nPresenters: Leslie King & Rolla Lewis \n\n\n\nEleven people completed the requirements to receive the Cobb Institute’s first “Certificate in Process and Practice\,” a program which included online courses taught by Jay McDaniel\, Andrew M. Davis\, Jeanyne Slettom\, Sheri Kling\, and Marcus Ford. The program\, guided by Terry Goddard\, was designed as “A Transformative and Holistic Educational Experience to Cultivate a More Just\, Sustainable\, and Fulfilling World.”  See the list of graduates and their synthesizing capstone “Springboard” projects. Future leadership for the program has emerged from the first cohort of graduates.  Dr. Rolla Lewis has agreed to be the guiding Dean of the Certificate Program\, and Rev. Dr. Leslie King has agreed to be the overall guiding Chairperson of our educational programs.  Rolla and Leslie will share their experience in and hopes for the Certificate Program.  Other participants have been invited to share their experiences of the Certificate program and their hopes for its future.      \n\n\n\nRolla Lewis\, Professor Emeritus in Educational Psychology at California State University\, East Bay\, has had a long career as School Counseling Coordinator at CSUEB and Portland State University.  He is a Taos Institute Associate\, which promotes social constructivism.  In September\, 2019\, he shared with Cobb & Friends his perspective on “Lifescaping–Creating a World We Want to Live In.”  Now retired in Portland\, OR\, his active gardening became the focus of his Certificate study’s capstone project.   \n\n\n\nLeslie King\, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Waco\, Texas\, studied process theology with Nancy Howell in the Doctor of Ministry program at St. Paul’s School of Theology. Find her biodata here\, and her blog here.  Her capstone project was “Forever Young:  Concepts of God and Launching Young Adults.”  In her new role of Education Chairperson\, she is a member of the Cobb Institute Board. \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-2023-07-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-07-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230718T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bruce Epperly
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Bible in Process Perspective: Learning from Stories \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bruce Epperly \n\n\n\nJoin our conversation with Dr. Bruce Epperly\, seminary teacher\, pastor\, lectionary commentator\, and prolific author of over sixty process-themed books. On his personal website he says\, “Process theology is an adventure of ideas\,” and “The Bible is an adventure book.” See his current Adventurous Lectionary blogs for Patheos\, or his archive of lectionary commentaries for Process & Faith. What follows is further information Dr. Epperly has shared with us. \n\n\n\nBruce Epperly served over forty years as a university chaplain\, congregational pastor\, seminary administrator\, and university and seminary professor. Prior to concluding his full-time ministry at South Congregational Church\, UCC\, Barnstable\, Massachusetts in 2021\, Bruce served in various administrative and academic roles at Lancaster Theological Seminary\, Wesley Theological Seminary\, Claremont School of Theology\, and Georgetown University. Bruce is the author of over seventy books in theology\, spirituality\, healing and wholeness\, scripture\, and clergy wellbeing\, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theology and Religious Pluralism; The Jubilee Years: Embracing Clergy Retirement; A Center in a Cyclone: Twenty-first Century Clergy Selfcare;  Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism; Mystics in Action: 12 Saints for Today; Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman’s Vision of Contemplative Activism; 101 Soul Seeds for Grandparents Working for a Better World; and 101 Soul Seeds for a Joyful Retirement. His latest books are Taking a Walk with Whitehead: Meditations on Process Theology and Process Theology and the Revival We Need. He currently is working on manuscripts related to Teilhard and Whitehead and the importance of progressive/process-relational Christianity in saving the soul of the nation and planet. \n\n\n\n In “retirement\,” Bruce describes his life as spacious\, meaningful\, and busy enough. His days are filled with writing\, preparing for classes and talks\, walking\, watching British mysteries\, and spending time with his wife Kath and his grandchildren who live in the neighborhood. He wakes up eager at 4:30 a.m. for today’s holy adventure\, which always includes an afternoon nap!  On occasion\, he even does part-time ministry for congregations\, focusing on theological reflection\, preaching\, teaching\, and reviving congregation’s spirits. \n\n\n\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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-bruce-epperly/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-07-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230627T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: John Becker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Babbling on About Pluralism \n\n\n\nPresenters: John Becker \n\n\n\nToday’s title is taken from a chapter Dr. Becker wrote in the book he co-edited with Marc A. Pugliese\, Process Thought and Roman Catholicism: Challenges and Promises. Becker\, a Research Fellow of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China\, has accompanied John Cobb to China. He is newsletter editor and board member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. He earned a Master’s degree in Historical Preservation at CalPoly Pomona\, and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from the Claremont School of Theology. He has taught courses at Loyola Marymount College\, University of the West\, and most recently at Lyon College\, where he has been Assistant Professor of Philosophy. (At his LinkedIn page scroll to his posts about the skateboarding course this Southern California native taught in the Arkansas school.) His research interests are broad\, including Buddhist-Christian studies\, eco-theology\, process philosophy\, and religious pluralism. He was honored to receive the 2017 Young Scholar Award of the International Process Network. Becker’s lecture at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies in the section “Beyond Dialogue and Deep Religious Pluralism” is available at this YouTube link. \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-2023-06-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-06-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230620T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230620T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kathleen Wakefield
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Awakening Our Deep Earth Connections by Reading Poetry in Community \n\n\n\nPresenters: Kathleen Wakefield \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield\, a frequent participant in our Cobb & Friends conversations\, is skilled in creating poetry and in engaging others in the poetry experience.  She describes her time with us as    \n\n\n\n“Awakening Our Deep Earth Connections: how reading poetry in community inspires loving attentiveness to the natural world and each other.”  She invites us into this experience. \n\n\n\nPoetry is a deeply embodied art rising from the rhythms of breath\, the senses\, and the emotional and spiritual memories our bodies hold. Its music and image-making qualities are uniquely suited to expressing how our lives are bound up with the earth’s body\, attuning us to the sacred web of relationships of which we are a part. Poetry voices grief for the wounding of our home\, while also nourishing us as we seek to heal our relationship and move forward. Reading poems in community can be a transformative process as we share perceptions\, “ah-has” of insight\, and life experiences; the self is excavated at the same time surprising connections are made to the seeming “other\,” human and nonhuman. Our world is enlarged\, our compassion stirred.   \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield is the author of two books of poetry\, Notations on the Visible World (Anhinga Press\, 2000)\, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry\, and Grip\, Give and Sway (Silver Birch Press\, 2016). She has taught creative writing at the Eastman School of Music\, worked as a poet-in-the-schools\, and she shares poetry through public libraries. Her work has appeared in numerous journals\, including the Alaska Quarterly Review\, Christian Century\, Georgia Review\, Poetry\, Sewanee Review\, and Visions International. \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-2023-06-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230613T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Merlin Sheldrake\, with Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds \n\n\n\nPresenters: Merlin Sheldrake & Matt Segall \n\n\n\nMerlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures\, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller\, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Matt Segall\, the Cobb Institute’s Science Advisor\, says of Sheldrake’s work: “He encourages us to wonder how our scientific image of nature would be transformed by the adoption of mycelial rather than mechanical metaphors.” Segall will continue the dialogue about Whitehead/process thought’s relevance to mycology and biology more generally. See this blog post for a sense of what Matt and Merlin have already explored: https://footnotes2plato.com/2021/09/27/towards-a-mycological-metaphysics/. Merlin’s presentation on this topic at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies has been posted to YouTube.  \n\n\n\nMerlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama\, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam\, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. Learn more at his website. Matt is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco\, CA (CIIS.edu). He has published articles on a wide-array of topics\, including metaphysics\, Gaia theory\, religious studies\, psychedelics\, and architecture. He also blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com.   \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-2023-06-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-06-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Schwerin
DESCRIPTION:Topic: My 20 year Spiritual Adventure in China \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Schwerin\, with responses by Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan. \n\n\n\nDavid Schwerin comes highly recommended by Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan. He has shared with the Institute for Postmodern Development of China his business acumen and wise counsel\, having been credentialed with an MBA in Finance (Bucknell) and a Ph.D. in religion (Temple).  David has over thirty years of business experience\, beginning as a financial analyst and senior investment officer with a large bank. He founded D J Investment Advisors\, Inc. and has served as its President since 1976.  Explore his website\, www.consciousthinking.com\, for “Speaking” and “Writing” primarily focused on his initial work in China on Socially Responsible Business. (Now it’s referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility\, CSR\, or most recently Environmental\, Social and Governance\, ESG.) \n\n\n\nSchwerin is author of Conscious Capitalism: Principles for Prosperity (Butterworth-Heinemann 1998) which has been translated into Portuguese and Chinese and is in its second printing in China.  John Cobb praised Schwerin’s book Conscious Globalism: What’s Wrong with the World and How to Fix It (Digital Junction Press\, 2005):  “David Schwerin is doing great work in reminding the business community of its enormous responsibilities. Economic globalization has given corporations great freedom; hence\, much depends on how they use it. Those who read Conscious Globalism will have their tendencies to conscientiousness and inclusive concern strongly reinforced.”  Conscious Globalism was published in China in October 2005.  \n\n\n\nSchwerin says\, “Because some authorities in China have misgivings about the word ‘Spiritual’ and what it entails\, I have purposely limited the spiritual aspects of my work on my website. That said\, I have spent many years working to introduce a spiritual path to China. It is called Pathwork and is based on Mystery School teachings that are thousands of years old. It consists of 258 lectures that were channeled over a 20-year period and are psycho-spiritual in nature. These profound teachings are drawn from ancient wisdom from both the East and West.”  See his current blogs at https://www.speakingtree.in/david-schwerin/blogs.  See also his most recent book\, co-authored with Diana Muenz Chen\, titled Know Your Soul: Bring Joy to Your Life. It will help you understand the term Soul as he understands it. \n\n\n\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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-david-schwerin/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Eugene Shirley & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Pando: Leveraging Society’s Pillars for Change! \n\n\n\nPresenters: Eugene Shirley & Friends \n\n\n\nEarth’s largest organism\, Pando the Tree\, inspired graphics for the 2015 Claremont Conference\, “Seizing an Alternative.”  Pando the organization is a “non-profit producer of educational programs for civic engagement with the end goal of building a more sustainable California Southland.”  Eugene Shirley\, Founding President of Pando\, has rounded up a talented crew to creatively engage folks in Los Angeles County in aiming for its ambitious sustainability goals.  The CSO Strategic Task Force brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from government\, higher education\, business\, and NGOs to focus on the common good of strengthening community resilience in Los Angeles County.   \n\n\n\n         Heidrun Mumper-Drumm\, head of the CSO Task Force\, will join our conversation\, along with John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, Pando’s Founding Board Chair\, and Vice-Chair Ed Bacon\, former long-time pastor of Pasadena All Saints Episcopal Church.  A brief documentary film by award-winning Lyn Goldfarb will be shared during the presentation. \n\n\n\n          Conversation will focus on the traditional pillars of civil society and how we can utilize them to bring about change.  How do we involve education\, faith institutions\, professional organizations and others in a broad ambition to create the more ecologically balanced and socially just environment that the LA County sustainability plan\, integral ecology\, etc. envision?  Additionally\, what is the role for public agencies?  Pando is building a unique model in Pando Days\, Magenta House\, and the CSO Taskforce that we’ll explore as specific test-cases.   \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-2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
DESCRIPTION:Topic: 21 Psalms for the 21st Century \n\n\n\nPresenters: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki \n\n\n\nNoted process theologian Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki shares wisdom gained from her spiritual practice of reading and re-reading the Psalms during the days of pandemic. In process-relational meditations\, she shares her journey\, and she also includes contemporary psalms by Blair Gilmer Meeks. See the Process Century Press website for a description of her recently published book\, featuring 21 Psalms\, of warning\, yet an on-going source of hope. Dr. Suchocki has had a long-time association with John Cobb\, having been his student at Claremont Graduate School. She was founder of the (Whitehead) Common Good Film Festival\, and Co-director Emerita of the Center for Process Studies. The Cobb Institute Educator’s Toolbox includes a ready to share slideshow summarizing Suchocki’s approach to Christian Process Theology  Access the Center for Process Studies bibliography of her books\, articles\, and videotapes\, and see her detailed biodata and major publications here.   \n\n\n\nBlair Gilmer Meeks\, past editor of Liturgy\, the quarterly journal of The Liturgical Conference\, writes and lectures on worship and preaching for Abingdon Press and The Upper Room. She was acting coach in the chancel drama program at the Center for Arts and Religion\, Wesley Theological Seminary.  \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-2023-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Death of Omnipotence and the Birth of Amipotence \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nTom Oord has been a frequent guest presenter with Cobb & Friends. A student of David R. Griffin\, Oord earned a Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. He will discuss his latest book\, The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence. Respondents will bring multiple faith perspectives to bear on the conversation. A Buddhist perspective will be brought by Jay McDaniel\, Professor of World Religions Emeritus\, Hendrix College. He is currently board chair of the Cobb Institute.  An Islamic perspective will be shared by Adis Duderija\, Senior Fellow\, Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue\, Griffith University\, Brisbane\, Australia. Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Vice-chair of the Cobb Institute board\,Dean Emerita and Professor of Theology and Education\, Boston University School of Theology\, will bring a Christian perspective. \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author or editor of more than thirty books and an award-winning professor. He directs the Northwind Theological Seminary doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He is known for his contributions to research on love\, open and relational theology\, issues in science and religion\, and freedom for transformation. Oord has been president of several scholarly societies\, and he lectures at institutions\, events\, and churches around the globe. Find a detailed bio here. He blogs frequently at his website: http://thomasjayoord.com \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-2023-05-16/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-05-16/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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