Events
Fines, Fees, and Futures: The Shadow System of Court Debt with Alejandra Davila
In this presentation, Alejandra Davila will explore court debt as a living system that perpetuates itself through interconnected cycles of punishment and profit. The presentation will be structured in three parts: Context, Cycles, and Campaigns. Alejandra will briefly trace the history of fines and fees, unpack how court debt sustains and deepens itself across communities, and explore the organizations campaigning to end fees and right-size fines. The session will close with a conversation on the shifts—cultural, political, and relational—that could make a justice system genuinely just.
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Process Explorations Summer Finale: Wisdom for Building Alternative Futures
This session marks the finale of a six-month series in Process Explorations – “Building Alternative Futures.” The theme echoes the 2015 conference sponsored by John B. Cobb, Jr., "Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization." It also underscores the urgency of the present moment in global history, seeking to analyze the present, imagine the potential futures before us, and build toward those futures. As we conclude the series, we celebrate the finale with wisdom from our process mentors and friends, poetry, music, art, and conversation.
Free
Process Pop-Up: Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization
In this Process Pop-Up, Patrick Mahaffey will introduce us to his book Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization and discuss his proposed form of integrative spirituality, uniting psychological wholeness with spiritual realization.
Frontiers of Knowledge 2026
Join us Sunday, August 23rd at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen for Frontiers of Knowledge, a mind-expanding day of conversation with world-renowned scientists, philosophers, and authors. This Year's Speakers: SCARLETT Max, Dr. Chantal Noa Forbes, David M. Peña-Guzmán, Matthew David Segall, Garth Stevenson, Dr. Lindsay Branham, Andreas Weber, Carl Safina, and Tenzin Seldon.
Ecological Civilization and Global Citizenship: Reflections on a Year in China with Wm. Andrew Schwartz
The path toward ecological civilization asks us to confront a basic contradiction of our time: our greatest challenges are planetary, while our dominant forms of identity and political action remain divided along national, cultural, religious, and ideological lines. Building a more just and sustainable world will require unprecedented cooperation across these boundaries, and new ways of understanding what it means to belong to a global community. Drawing on a year of living, teaching, and working in China, Andrew Schwartz reflects on global citizenship, cross-cultural encounter, and ecological civilization through the lens of process-relational thought, asking how we might cultivate forms of identity, responsibility, and cooperation adequate to our shared planetary future.
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Theology Beer Camp 2026 Pre-Event
Pre-Theology Beer Camp brings together theologians, practitioners, pastors, and curious minds for plenary sessions, breakouts, and discussions exploring ideas centered on uncontrolling love, relationality, freedom, creativity, spirituality, and the future of faith. Whether you’ve read every Tom Oord book, recently discovered process thought, or simply want thoughtful conversations with people asking meaningful questions, this day is designed to create space for learning, curiosity, and connection.
Theology Beer Camp 2026: The Godpodcalypse
Theology Beer Camp isn’t just an event—it’s an immersive experience where deep theological musings meet serious laughs, craft beer, and a room full of fellow theology nerds ready to debate everything from divine omnipotence to which beer style reigns supreme. This year, the theme is The Godpodcalypse—and we're bringing in Cornel West, Ilia Delio, Gary Dorrien, Diana Butler Bass, Kristen Du Mez and more to give insight on how to navigate these "unprecedented times."
Love, Conflict, and an Unfolding Universe
In 2026, the Center for Christogenesis celebrated a decade of visionary work—ten years of imagining love as the energy of transformation, and a pivotal turning point as that work continues under a new name: the World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture (WISR). We invite you to gather with us in person (and online) at Villanova University to mark this milestone and deepen our shared journey.
The Future of Meaning: The Philosophical Renewal of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
FeaturedThe Future of Meaning Conference is being held in Savannah's beautiful historic district, May 19–22, 2027. Under the theme "The Philosophical Renewal of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness," this unique gathering brings together leading voices in philosophy, theology, and culture for four days of presentations, dialogue, fellowship, contemplation, and music.