Discussion
Events
Process Pop-up: Process and Religious Pluralism with Bruce Epperly and Sheri Kling
Join a dynamic discussion on process and religious pluralism, using Bruce Epperly's recently published book The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism as a springboard for conversation.
Process Pop-Up: Balancing Eight Spiritual Tensions with Jared Morningstar
Join an interactive Pop-Up event where we will explore four pairs of religious and spiritual dispositions which are in tension with one another. Together we will consider how we can hold these tensions with grace so as to not lose the organic dynamism of authentic spirituality.
Process Pop-Up: The Tao Flows on Like a River Forever with Rosemarie Anderson
Dr. Rosemarie Anderson will provide examples of verses from her own translation of the Tao Te Ching, suggestive of the philosophy of organism and why modern Chinese are now attracted to Process Philosophy.
Process Prep: Exploring Christian Process Theology in Small Groups
A one-hour workshop, led by Dr. Jay McDaniel, on how to teach Christian Process Theology in local churches with help from easy-to-use slideshows offered by the Cobb Institute. For adults and youth, clergy and laity, Christians and Friends, open to any and all.
Process Pop-Up: Family, Parenting, Young Spirituality, and Process with Jay McDaniel and Bonnie Rambob
How might a process perspective help parents to raise their children to be spiritual, resilient, creative, and compassionate? Join Jay McDaniel and Bonnie Rambo as they facilitate a conversation on these topics.
Process Pop-Up: Process Mysticism with Dan Dombrowski
Drawing from his latest book, Process Mysticism, Dan Dombrowski will offer a process philosophical approach to mysticism or religious experience. He will use the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore this subject.
Process Pop-Up: Deconstructing Hell with Chad Bahl
In this online event, we'll explore why Chad and his coauthors of Deconstructing Hell argue that perhaps no modern church dogma has been more destructive to the mission of Jesus, created more atheists, or generated more religious trauma than that of eternal conscious torment (ECT) for the non-believer.
Process Pop-Up: Attuning with Things: The Mind According to Nishitani Keiji with Carlos Barbosa
In this Pop-Up, Kyoto School scholar Carlos Barbosa Cepeda will explore Nishitani Keiji's philosophy of mind, showing how ideas from the Japanese philosopher help us move beyond metaphors of the mind as a computer and achieve a more vivid understanding of who we are.
Process Pop-Up: The Diabolical Trinity with Mark Karris
In this Pop-Up, Dr. Mark Karris will discuss the religious trauma caused by the unholy trinity of traumatizing beliefs in a tormenting Hell, a wrathful God, and human depravity and how such beliefs are traumatizing for individuals and have led to abandonment of the church.
Process Pop-Up: The Secular as Sacred: Taoism & Confucianism from the Perspective of Process Philosophy with Zhenbao Jin
In this Pop-Up, Dr. Zhenbao Jin will discuss the cosmology of Taoism and Confucianism from the perspective of process philosophy and explore meditation as the way to embody such a cosmology.
Process Pop-Up: Reviving Christian Process Theology with Bruce Epperly
Believing there is good news of Jesus beyond the academy, Dr. Epperly will show how Christian process theology must join its theological vision with spiritual practices of healing & wholeness, integration of contemplation and action, and a rediscovery of an affirmative vision of Jesus.
Process Pop-Up: Spirituality, Psychedelics, and Process Thought with John Buchanan
Drawing from his own deeply moving personal journey through the early death of his father and his quest for sobriety, in this event, John Buchanan, Ph.D. will introduce topics from his 2022 book, Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety.