Events
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.
Process Pop-Up: God Will be All in All
In this event, Dr. Case-Winters will explore these themes as well as the provoking questions that arise with our affirmation that “God is with us.” How can we believe “God is with us” when there is so much suffering and evil in the world? When we make this affirmation what do we mean by “us”? Do we mean “just us Christians”?
Process Pop-Up: New Streams: Finding Faith Online
This event will gather a panel of speakers who have been using new media to talk about and experience faith online. We’ll find out how this has impacted them and their listeners as we open our minds to new ways of being faithful.
Process Pop-Up: The God of Tomorrow: Whitehead and Teilhard on Metaphysics, Mysticism, and Mission
In this event, Dr. Bruce Epperly, a public theologian skilled at sharing process ideas in digestible ways, will examine Whitehead’s and Teilhard’s ideas to show the ways in which their themes converge and examine how this synergy can help us plan strategies to join God's adventure of the universe in our own spheres.
