Events
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.
Mathematics, Narratives, & Life: Reconciling Science and the Humanities with Arran Gare and Matt Segall
In this presentation and conversation, Arran Gare and Matthew Segall will examine work in theoretical biology that might advance the way we understand mathematics and narratives, and their relation to each other and reality, and thereby how we should understand science and the humanities and their relationship to one another.
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.
Process Pop-Up: The Not-Yet God and the Relational Whole with Ilia Delio
The new science, especially quantum physics, has changed our understanding of space, time and matter; hence it raises new questions on the meaning of God. In this Pop-Up, we'll discuss llia Delio's latest book, "The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole."
Process Pop-Up: Process, Pluralism, and Respecting Diverse Religious Ultimates
In this event, LoPresti will share key ideas from his book to describe a “meta-theology” of world religions, arguing that both Western and non-Western traditions are helpful. He’ll draw from John B. Cobb’s Whiteheadian “deep religious pluralism” as well as South Asian philosophy, Western analytic philosophy, and the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).
Process Pop-Up: Yoga, Experience, and the Vagus Nerve
In this pop-up, Leslie King will introduce simple chair yoga movements or asanas and each participant will learn more about their range of movement and how yogic practices best make sense for the body.