Events

Beauty in a Time of Lament with Jay McDaniel and Patricia Adams Farmer
Jay McDaniel and Patricia Adams Farmer will share their views and invite yours on the many forms of beauty, including musical beauty and the beauty of landscapes and waterways, animals and plants, as they offer opportunities for touching God and moving forward, no matter how trying the times.

Process Pop-up: The Deeper Roots of Mass Shootings with Sheri D. Kling
Join a dynamic discussion on the deeper roots of mass shootings, inspired by process scholar Sheri Kling's recent piece on the Cobb Institute blog Process in Praxis titled "Are Fragmentation, Trauma, and Demoralization at the Root of Mass Shootings?"

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 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.