Events
Process Thinking & Human Living: An Online Seminar for Exploration and Inspiration
In this 3-hour, online seminar, speakers from Process & Faith, a program of the Center for Process Studies of Claremont School of Theology will explore aspects of process thought that make a positive difference in human life and in the life of the earth.
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.
Extended Sight & Process Philosophy with Àlex Gómez-Marín and Matt Segall
Physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín and Cobb Institute Science Advisory Committee chair Matt Segall will come together to discuss Dr. Gomez-Marin's recent experiments on “scopaesthesia” and on “extraocular vision,” exploring how these phenomena can be given coherent interpretation from a process philosophical perspective.
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.
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.