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Atheism and Faitheism
So What about Evil?
Must Christians Believe in Hell?
Can a Theist be an Atheist, Too?
God is Like a Circle Dance: Reclaiming Christianity with Help from Richard Rohr
Life After Death as a Context for Soul-Gentling
When Your Grandmother Dies: Reflections on Perishing and Immortality
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Kirtan as (Interfaith) Sacred Music
Becoming an Interfaith Leader: A Resource Page
Leadership in a Multi-Faith World
The Human Side of Interfaith: A Special Role for Humanism
Interfaith Music Festivals: What and How
Seven Lessons from Brian McLaren
How Can We Explore Questions of Purpose, Value, and Vocation in Interfaith Contexts?
From Interfaith to Interpolitical: Cultivating Community Amid Political Divisions
NONES: The Rise of the Religiously Unaffiliated
Des Moines, Iowa: The Practice of Pluralism in the American Heartland
Spiritual Jukebox for a Multifaith World
The Taoist Christian
Interfaith Scriptural Exploration
When Strangers Meet Musically and Scripturally
The Identity Wheel: A Tool for Self-Understanding
Can Scriptures Be Inspired? An Interfaith Conversation
Interfaith Leadership: A Resource Page
Multi-faith Mondays: Daily Practices for Interfaith Spirituality
Can a Christian be a Buddhist, Too?
The Taoist Christian: Following Jesus in a Gentle and Creative Way
Can a Christian Believe in No-Self?
Oprah Winfrey Interviews Thich Nhat Hanh
Interfaith Dialogue: Some Things to Keep in Mind
Art and Music
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Shamanic Rock: Attila Grandpierre and the Galloping Wonder Stag
Fourth World Aesthetics: Jon Hassell and Whitehead
The Romanticism of Bjork
Getting Back to the Garden: The Romantic Impulse in Popular Music
Cacophony of the Deep: Whitehead and Noise Music
Finding God in the Garbage and the Flowers
Creation out of Chaos: In the Beginning was the Noise
Ten Reasons to Like Frederick Buechner
I Feel Good When I Sing With Others: Group Singing as a Spiritual and Social Practice
Singing With Others as a "Process Theology" Practice
Sufjan Stevens: Spirit of My Silence
Pop Harmonies as Windows to God: Gratitude to the Everly Brothers
Novelty Makes the World Go Round: Nietzsche, Whitehead, and Lydia Ainsworth
The Joy of Going Bonkers: The Exuberant Music of Anna Meredith
Crazy Metaphysics and the Joy of Being Alive: The Exuberant Music of Anna Meredith and AN Whitehead
Jazz is the Mother of Hip Hop
We Dream of Better Places: Samora Pinderhughes' The Transformation Suite
Jazz and Social Justice:: Samora Pinderhughes
Joe Davis and the Poetic Diaspora: Pentecostal Theopoetics
Polyrhythmic Theology: Drum Circles within Drum Circles
Hindi-Urdu-English: The Theopoetics of Humeysha
Islam, Jazz, and Zen: The Philosophy of Abdullah Ibrahim
Daddy's Drinking Again: Kate Tempest and the Psychological Costs of War
I Will Survive: The Breakup Song as Spiritual Companion
Cheer the Hell Up: The Theopoetics of David Byrne
SHE: Alice Phoebe Lou
Improvisational Healing Spaces: Marilyn Biles
Black Panther: Metaphysics, Music, and Plot
Afghan Rap
Philosophy from the Guitar: Chris Mosley and the Grizzly Adams Family
At Last My Love Has Come Along: The Religious Significance of Popular Love Songs
Why Listen to Country Music?
The Religious Side of Electronic Dance Music
Mary by Big Thief: Grace through Friendship
Hip Hop Lyrics as Sacred Texts: Toki Wright
How God Listens to Insects
Finding Your Inner Banjo
Dancing in the Real World: Theologizing from the Site of the Flesh
The Huntress and the Holder of Hands: Lamentation
Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Daniil Trifonov
My Friend Mary: Grace through Friendship
Preach, Kendrick, Preach: The Popular Song as Sacred Text
DAMN: Rodney Carmichael on Kendrick Lamar's Album
The Sounds of the Deep: What God Heard Before the Dawn of Creation
The Shape of Water: A Process Perspective
The Personal is Political: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Race
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Irreversible Entanglements: Black Liberation Free Jazz
Ariadne: Reclaiming the Mystical in an Almost Shattered World
Perfume Genius
Ariadne: Postmodern Sacred Music (Christian)
We Learn to Improvise: Miles Davis and Process Theology
Sludge Metal: A Theology
Four Kinds of Holy: Jamila Woods
Sampha: The Piano as Spiritual Friend
Marney Ward and the Tangible Presence of Light
By the Way I forgive You (Kind of): Brandi Carlile
The Religious Significance of Popular Music
Rhythm and Blues: Intimacy and Transcendence in the Thick of Life
Loving You is Complicated: Comfort and Affliction in Hip Hop Theologies
Ann Powers: My Life in Music (the spiritual side)
In the Beginning is the Remixing: The Social and Theological Significance of DJ Culture
Fat Soul Band and Four J's: Musicking for a Better World
Delvyn Case: Classical Christian Punk Musician
Asmaa Elamrousy: Hip Hop Hijabi
Give You My Breath: The Buddhist-Inspired Art of Melissa Gill
W.B. Yeats Reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree
How Photography Becomes Prayer
Maxine Payne: Photographer
Hopes for a Beautiful Planet
>
Building Ecological Civilizations: The Practical Side
Practicing Ecotheology
Journey of the Universe Educational Series
Victor Wooten: Connections between Music and Ecotheology
Jane Goodall's Prayer
Journey of the Universe: A Cinematic Resource for Interfaith Leaders
Five Foundations for an Ecological Ciiviilization
Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet
Positive Psychology, Religion, and Sustainable Community
Spirituality and Practice
>
Too Much Conviction: The Problem of Overly Fervent Belief
Too Much Connectedness: Whitehead and Kierkegaard on Solitude
Being Hear: Falling in Love with Planet Earth through Sound
Being Hear
Constructive Guilt as a Blessing from God
You Never Know: Living with Radical Contingency as a Spiritual Practice
Breathing with the Universe: Process Theology and Tai Ji
The Need to Adore: Rumi and Hartshorne
Virginia McDaniel: Reflections on a Long Life and the Encircling Spirit
Surfing as Spirituality
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
Spiritual Alphabet for a Multifaith World
Creative Lamentation: The Coalescence of Heartbreak and a Resolve to Survive
Sacred Speech 101
We Protect What We Fall in Love With
Trust in Beauty
The Listening Side of Love
Zen Meditation
Cooking as a Spiritual Practice
Thoughts on Marriage
Stepping Inside Your Shoes: Alzheimer's Disease, Validation Therapy, and Process Theology
Cats as Spiritual Teachers
Becoming the Person My Dog Thinks I Am
The Practice of Dreamless Sleep: A Place where God is Found
The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Spirituality for Nones
Science
>
Whitehead, Einstein, and Relativity
Encouraging Worda about Miracles
Learning to Love Science: A Chinese Student's Story
Whitehead and Mind-Brain Relations
Whitehead and Evolution
The Liberation of Science
Social Justice
>
Pierre Bourdieu on Social and Cultural Capiital
Feminism and the Courage to Be: Voyaging with the Ultimately Intimate
The Better Angels Project: A Practical Approach to Social Healing Across Political Divides
Guns in America: NY Times Videos
Taking a Knee and Taking Down a Monument
Stay Angry, My Friend, Stay Angry: A Playlist for Ongoing Protest
Exorcising the White Imagination: Afrofuturism as Spiritual Practice
Thirty People with Cheap Tiki Torches: Inside the white supremacy movement
I Have a Dream Speech: Video, Animated Analysis, Interview with Speech Writer
America the Ugly, Too: Our History of Slavery and Rapacious Businessmen
Whatever Happened to America? Against Poster Children and "Merit" Criteria
Irreversible Entanglements: Black Liberation Free Jazz
The Metaphysics of Justice: Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism
Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism
Comeuppance: Brandi Carlile
Economic Justice and Process Philosophy
How are Things on Planet Earth
Mental Health in America: Reflections from the Front Line
Cut the Crap, White America: The Illusions of Pleasantville
Now a Good Word for the Innkeeper
Animals
>
The Practice of Religion in Animals
The New Science of Understanding Dog Behavior
Turtles and Whales (and Us)
She is a Benefit to Herself
Spiritual Bonds with Chickens
The Horse is the Priest
People's Stories
>
Slomo: The Man Who Skates to Freedom
Albert Camus: My Favorite Atheist
Remembering Appendicitis: Living with Radical Contingency
Transfiguration: A Lutheran's Journey
Standing Up for Justice and a Good Word for Guilt
Greg Gibson and Wayne Lo: Talking with the Man who Killed my Son
Go Fish: A Life in Christ
My Mom on Drugs: Hope Beyond Addiction
Miscellany for the Curious Mind
>
Linda and Allen and Buck's: My Teachers
Cogito Ergo Sum
The Raney Building and Steel Center: The Liberal Arts Experience at Hendrix College
Education for Creativity: Ken Robinson and Whitehead
Cursed are the Meek: The Anti-Christian Theology of Donald Trump
Why Do Onions Make Us Cry?
God was in My Father Kneeling Next to Me: Les Muray
The Rise of the Unaffiliated: Why Americans are Leaving Religion and Unlikely to Come Back
Football: It's about the Hitting
East-West Explorations
>
In a Zen Way: Peter Coyote on Dogen's Zen
The Dao (道) of Basketball: A Chinese and American Perspective
The Tao of Fungi
All is Void and there is no Buddha
A Clear, Calm Mind
聪明 as Multiple Intelligence Gaining Wisdom from Chinese Characters
“知音”(zhī yīn) and Musical Friendship
Jazz and Korean Bibimbap
What Americans Can Learn from Confucianism
Wheels and Diagrams
>
Concrescence Diagram
Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet (Diagram)
Wheel of Life: Eighteen Forms of "Religious" Experience
Five Foundations for an Ecological Civilization (Diagram)
Mental Health
>
Taking a Mr. Roger's Break
Where is God in Alzheimer's Disease?
Where is God in Mental Illness?
For Pain I am Grateful
Dhamma Brothers: Meditation in Prison
Whatever Makes Us Crumble: Triggers for Trauma
My Mother Joy: On Becoming a Nurse
Swimming to the Other Side (A Mother, A Daughter, and Cancer)
Mental Health in America: Reflections from the Front Line
Mental Health in Arkansas: Reflections from the Front Line
Positive Psychology, Religion, and Sustainable Community
My Life as a Recovering Anorexic
A Journey with Depression: Wisdom from Monica Coleman
We are all Nurses-in-the-Making
Whitehead and Process Thinking
>
Reading Process and Reality: A Video Series
Feeling the Feelings of Others: The Ambiguous Intensity of Eye Contact
A Very Short Introduction to Process Theology
Bibliographies for Scholars
What in the World is Process Theology? A Video
Panentheism: The Universe as God's Body
Eight Categories of Existence
Concrescence
Prehensions
The Many Become One and Are Increased by One
Causal Efficacy (Withness of the Body)
Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thinking
Perpetual Perishing: Morii
Reading Process and Reality
Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought
God with a Spacious Heart
Fat Soul (Six Characteristics)
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
The Creative LIfe: God Sets the Melody and We Improvise
The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Process Theology for Nones and Others
Some of Our Columnists
>
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
>
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes: Moments of Torah with Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes: Rabbi Bradley Artson Videos
Why the Bible is a Terrible Book (and worth reading on a regular basis)
God Almighty? No Way!
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
The Hidden Holiness of the Secular New Year
Voting is Holy
Dancing with You from "Here" to "There"
One Dove's Pluck
Prayer on Mother's Day
How Not to Respond to the Flood
Child of God
Prayer for the Homeless
Process and Torah
The Bible is a Book of Inclusion and Love
And So We Speak for Peace
What is a Miracle?
Not in Our Name
Avinu Malkeinu
Thirty Six Lures for Feeling
After the Earthquake
A Lament That Never Ends
A Prayer for All of Us
Come What May
She is a Benefit to Herself
Four Reasons I'm Bound to Israel
Turtles and Whales (and Us)
Judaism: An Introduction
犹太教:生活方式、哲学、文化以及信念
Becoming - East and West
Constellation of Process Theology
Only in This Should You Glory
Vibrating Over the Face of the Deep
Voting Biblically
To Choose Life
Self-Evident Truths
Pulse
The Omer
Two Thanksgiving Essays
Jewish Environmentalism
The Risk (and Glory) of Freedom
Teri Daily
>
What is Missing in Process Theology?
What an Orthodox-Oriented Christian Priest Learns from Process Theology
Orthodoxy and Process: A Parish Priest Encounters Process Theology
Vulnerable to the Questions: The Role of Doubt in Faith
May I Try That One Again? The Grace of a Million Second Chances
Love Made Gritty
Mary Our Priest
Why Be Christian
Creation as Gift-Exchange: A Reflection for the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul
To Harm or to Heal: the Power of Words
Can I, Too, Be an Interfaith Leader?
Finding Wisdom Between Love and Awe
When the Light Shines Through
Finding Grace in a Bowl of Ashes
These Kids Are Gorgeous!
Why Is It So Hard to Forgive? Are Baby Steps Alright?
Taize, France: Window into the Radical Hospitality of God
A Tattoo of the Heart
Being Saved in Ordinary Moments: An Easter Vigil Sermon
John B. Cobb, Jr
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John Cobb on David Korten
The Postmodern John Cobb: Deconstructive and Constructive
The Idea of Vocation by John B. Cobb, Jr.
Five Foundations for an Ecological Ciivilization
Economic Justice and Process Philosophy
Whitehead's Theory of Value
Becoming - East and West
Patricia Adams Farmer
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The Great Pregnancy
What is Fat Soul Philosophy?
The Numinosity of Rocks
Gravity and Grief
Grief Takes a Road Trip
The Spiritual Alphabet: C
Why I Am a Vegetarian
Language, Luck, and Lures
Boston the Beautiful
No Tiny God
The Sky Remains
Patience is All
Fat Soul
Novel Theology: Confessions of a Whiteheadian Novelist
On the Gratitude of Trees
A Bejeweled World
Defiant Joy
Love All Beginnings
Under the Red Hats: White Rage, and the Quest for Empathy
A Theology of Tea
The Beauty of an Open-Ended Life
Beauty as a Spiritual Home
An Antidote to the Ugliness of Trumpism
Cropping Out All Green at Sixty
When the Devil Goes to Church
The Beauty of Imperfection
Black Bean Brownies and Grace
The Creative Life
After the Terror, I Return to Etty Hillesum
Growing an Ecological Soul with Help from Pope Francis
The Pope's Favorite
Inhabit Your Situation
The Meaning of Success Revisited
Elizabeth Bouvier-Fitzgerald
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The Six People with Perfect Parents (and other misfortunes)
Kill Your Television: Friendly Advice from Your Mental Health Counselor
Paul Ingram
>
The Pluralism of Life and Death
Thinking about Thinking about God
On Catching Glimpses of the Sacred
Jay McDaniel
>
Last Lecture: Jay McDaniel
Open Horizons: The Methodological Spirit of Open Horizons as Cross-Cutural Ecopoetics
Finding God in Rivers and Dogs
God with a Spacious Heart
O Holy Night: A Short Reflection for Christmas Eve
I Believe in a God of Commas
Ann Lamott: Theologian for the Rest of Us
On Being the English Teacher for a Zen Master
Bob Mesle
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Relational Power
A Soul is Not a Thing
Suffering and Meaning
Farhan Shah
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A Process Interpretation of Islam
What is the Concept of Reform in Islam?
How the Qur'an Reveals God's Becoming
Human Beings as Co-Workers with God
Muhammad Iqbal's Concept of God
Islam and the Interpretative Activity
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Menu and Topics
Reflecting on Big Questions
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A Whole Universe of Stories
God Almighty? No Way!
Interconnectedness
God as Abba: John Cobb's Proposal
Creativity as the Essence of Actuality
Atheism and Faitheism
So What about Evil?
Must Christians Believe in Hell?
Can a Theist be an Atheist, Too?
God is Like a Circle Dance: Reclaiming Christianity with Help from Richard Rohr
Life After Death as a Context for Soul-Gentling
When Your Grandmother Dies: Reflections on Perishing and Immortality
Interfaith Explorations
>
Kirtan as (Interfaith) Sacred Music
Becoming an Interfaith Leader: A Resource Page
Leadership in a Multi-Faith World
The Human Side of Interfaith: A Special Role for Humanism
Interfaith Music Festivals: What and How
Seven Lessons from Brian McLaren
How Can We Explore Questions of Purpose, Value, and Vocation in Interfaith Contexts?
From Interfaith to Interpolitical: Cultivating Community Amid Political Divisions
NONES: The Rise of the Religiously Unaffiliated
Des Moines, Iowa: The Practice of Pluralism in the American Heartland
Spiritual Jukebox for a Multifaith World
The Taoist Christian
Interfaith Scriptural Exploration
When Strangers Meet Musically and Scripturally
The Identity Wheel: A Tool for Self-Understanding
Can Scriptures Be Inspired? An Interfaith Conversation
Interfaith Leadership: A Resource Page
Multi-faith Mondays: Daily Practices for Interfaith Spirituality
Can a Christian be a Buddhist, Too?
The Taoist Christian: Following Jesus in a Gentle and Creative Way
Can a Christian Believe in No-Self?
Oprah Winfrey Interviews Thich Nhat Hanh
Interfaith Dialogue: Some Things to Keep in Mind
Art and Music
>
Shamanic Rock: Attila Grandpierre and the Galloping Wonder Stag
Fourth World Aesthetics: Jon Hassell and Whitehead
The Romanticism of Bjork
Getting Back to the Garden: The Romantic Impulse in Popular Music
Cacophony of the Deep: Whitehead and Noise Music
Finding God in the Garbage and the Flowers
Creation out of Chaos: In the Beginning was the Noise
Ten Reasons to Like Frederick Buechner
I Feel Good When I Sing With Others: Group Singing as a Spiritual and Social Practice
Singing With Others as a "Process Theology" Practice
Sufjan Stevens: Spirit of My Silence
Pop Harmonies as Windows to God: Gratitude to the Everly Brothers
Novelty Makes the World Go Round: Nietzsche, Whitehead, and Lydia Ainsworth
The Joy of Going Bonkers: The Exuberant Music of Anna Meredith
Crazy Metaphysics and the Joy of Being Alive: The Exuberant Music of Anna Meredith and AN Whitehead
Jazz is the Mother of Hip Hop
We Dream of Better Places: Samora Pinderhughes' The Transformation Suite
Jazz and Social Justice:: Samora Pinderhughes
Joe Davis and the Poetic Diaspora: Pentecostal Theopoetics
Polyrhythmic Theology: Drum Circles within Drum Circles
Hindi-Urdu-English: The Theopoetics of Humeysha
Islam, Jazz, and Zen: The Philosophy of Abdullah Ibrahim
Daddy's Drinking Again: Kate Tempest and the Psychological Costs of War
I Will Survive: The Breakup Song as Spiritual Companion
Cheer the Hell Up: The Theopoetics of David Byrne
SHE: Alice Phoebe Lou
Improvisational Healing Spaces: Marilyn Biles
Black Panther: Metaphysics, Music, and Plot
Afghan Rap
Philosophy from the Guitar: Chris Mosley and the Grizzly Adams Family
At Last My Love Has Come Along: The Religious Significance of Popular Love Songs
Why Listen to Country Music?
The Religious Side of Electronic Dance Music
Mary by Big Thief: Grace through Friendship
Hip Hop Lyrics as Sacred Texts: Toki Wright
How God Listens to Insects
Finding Your Inner Banjo
Dancing in the Real World: Theologizing from the Site of the Flesh
The Huntress and the Holder of Hands: Lamentation
Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Daniil Trifonov
My Friend Mary: Grace through Friendship
Preach, Kendrick, Preach: The Popular Song as Sacred Text
DAMN: Rodney Carmichael on Kendrick Lamar's Album
The Sounds of the Deep: What God Heard Before the Dawn of Creation
The Shape of Water: A Process Perspective
The Personal is Political: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Race
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Irreversible Entanglements: Black Liberation Free Jazz
Ariadne: Reclaiming the Mystical in an Almost Shattered World
Perfume Genius
Ariadne: Postmodern Sacred Music (Christian)
We Learn to Improvise: Miles Davis and Process Theology
Sludge Metal: A Theology
Four Kinds of Holy: Jamila Woods
Sampha: The Piano as Spiritual Friend
Marney Ward and the Tangible Presence of Light
By the Way I forgive You (Kind of): Brandi Carlile
The Religious Significance of Popular Music
Rhythm and Blues: Intimacy and Transcendence in the Thick of Life
Loving You is Complicated: Comfort and Affliction in Hip Hop Theologies
Ann Powers: My Life in Music (the spiritual side)
In the Beginning is the Remixing: The Social and Theological Significance of DJ Culture
Fat Soul Band and Four J's: Musicking for a Better World
Delvyn Case: Classical Christian Punk Musician
Asmaa Elamrousy: Hip Hop Hijabi
Give You My Breath: The Buddhist-Inspired Art of Melissa Gill
W.B. Yeats Reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree
How Photography Becomes Prayer
Maxine Payne: Photographer
Hopes for a Beautiful Planet
>
Building Ecological Civilizations: The Practical Side
Practicing Ecotheology
Journey of the Universe Educational Series
Victor Wooten: Connections between Music and Ecotheology
Jane Goodall's Prayer
Journey of the Universe: A Cinematic Resource for Interfaith Leaders
Five Foundations for an Ecological Ciiviilization
Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet
Positive Psychology, Religion, and Sustainable Community
Spirituality and Practice
>
Too Much Conviction: The Problem of Overly Fervent Belief
Too Much Connectedness: Whitehead and Kierkegaard on Solitude
Being Hear: Falling in Love with Planet Earth through Sound
Being Hear
Constructive Guilt as a Blessing from God
You Never Know: Living with Radical Contingency as a Spiritual Practice
Breathing with the Universe: Process Theology and Tai Ji
The Need to Adore: Rumi and Hartshorne
Virginia McDaniel: Reflections on a Long Life and the Encircling Spirit
Surfing as Spirituality
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
Spiritual Alphabet for a Multifaith World
Creative Lamentation: The Coalescence of Heartbreak and a Resolve to Survive
Sacred Speech 101
We Protect What We Fall in Love With
Trust in Beauty
The Listening Side of Love
Zen Meditation
Cooking as a Spiritual Practice
Thoughts on Marriage
Stepping Inside Your Shoes: Alzheimer's Disease, Validation Therapy, and Process Theology
Cats as Spiritual Teachers
Becoming the Person My Dog Thinks I Am
The Practice of Dreamless Sleep: A Place where God is Found
The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Spirituality for Nones
Science
>
Whitehead, Einstein, and Relativity
Encouraging Worda about Miracles
Learning to Love Science: A Chinese Student's Story
Whitehead and Mind-Brain Relations
Whitehead and Evolution
The Liberation of Science
Social Justice
>
Pierre Bourdieu on Social and Cultural Capiital
Feminism and the Courage to Be: Voyaging with the Ultimately Intimate
The Better Angels Project: A Practical Approach to Social Healing Across Political Divides
Guns in America: NY Times Videos
Taking a Knee and Taking Down a Monument
Stay Angry, My Friend, Stay Angry: A Playlist for Ongoing Protest
Exorcising the White Imagination: Afrofuturism as Spiritual Practice
Thirty People with Cheap Tiki Torches: Inside the white supremacy movement
I Have a Dream Speech: Video, Animated Analysis, Interview with Speech Writer
America the Ugly, Too: Our History of Slavery and Rapacious Businessmen
Whatever Happened to America? Against Poster Children and "Merit" Criteria
Irreversible Entanglements: Black Liberation Free Jazz
The Metaphysics of Justice: Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism
Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism
Comeuppance: Brandi Carlile
Economic Justice and Process Philosophy
How are Things on Planet Earth
Mental Health in America: Reflections from the Front Line
Cut the Crap, White America: The Illusions of Pleasantville
Now a Good Word for the Innkeeper
Animals
>
The Practice of Religion in Animals
The New Science of Understanding Dog Behavior
Turtles and Whales (and Us)
She is a Benefit to Herself
Spiritual Bonds with Chickens
The Horse is the Priest
People's Stories
>
Slomo: The Man Who Skates to Freedom
Albert Camus: My Favorite Atheist
Remembering Appendicitis: Living with Radical Contingency
Transfiguration: A Lutheran's Journey
Standing Up for Justice and a Good Word for Guilt
Greg Gibson and Wayne Lo: Talking with the Man who Killed my Son
Go Fish: A Life in Christ
My Mom on Drugs: Hope Beyond Addiction
Miscellany for the Curious Mind
>
Linda and Allen and Buck's: My Teachers
Cogito Ergo Sum
The Raney Building and Steel Center: The Liberal Arts Experience at Hendrix College
Education for Creativity: Ken Robinson and Whitehead
Cursed are the Meek: The Anti-Christian Theology of Donald Trump
Why Do Onions Make Us Cry?
God was in My Father Kneeling Next to Me: Les Muray
The Rise of the Unaffiliated: Why Americans are Leaving Religion and Unlikely to Come Back
Football: It's about the Hitting
East-West Explorations
>
In a Zen Way: Peter Coyote on Dogen's Zen
The Dao (道) of Basketball: A Chinese and American Perspective
The Tao of Fungi
All is Void and there is no Buddha
A Clear, Calm Mind
聪明 as Multiple Intelligence Gaining Wisdom from Chinese Characters
“知音”(zhī yīn) and Musical Friendship
Jazz and Korean Bibimbap
What Americans Can Learn from Confucianism
Wheels and Diagrams
>
Concrescence Diagram
Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet (Diagram)
Wheel of Life: Eighteen Forms of "Religious" Experience
Five Foundations for an Ecological Civilization (Diagram)
Mental Health
>
Taking a Mr. Roger's Break
Where is God in Alzheimer's Disease?
Where is God in Mental Illness?
For Pain I am Grateful
Dhamma Brothers: Meditation in Prison
Whatever Makes Us Crumble: Triggers for Trauma
My Mother Joy: On Becoming a Nurse
Swimming to the Other Side (A Mother, A Daughter, and Cancer)
Mental Health in America: Reflections from the Front Line
Mental Health in Arkansas: Reflections from the Front Line
Positive Psychology, Religion, and Sustainable Community
My Life as a Recovering Anorexic
A Journey with Depression: Wisdom from Monica Coleman
We are all Nurses-in-the-Making
Whitehead and Process Thinking
>
Reading Process and Reality: A Video Series
Feeling the Feelings of Others: The Ambiguous Intensity of Eye Contact
A Very Short Introduction to Process Theology
Bibliographies for Scholars
What in the World is Process Theology? A Video
Panentheism: The Universe as God's Body
Eight Categories of Existence
Concrescence
Prehensions
The Many Become One and Are Increased by One
Causal Efficacy (Withness of the Body)
Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thinking
Perpetual Perishing: Morii
Reading Process and Reality
Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought
God with a Spacious Heart
Fat Soul (Six Characteristics)
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
The Creative LIfe: God Sets the Melody and We Improvise
The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Process Theology for Nones and Others
Some of Our Columnists
>
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
>
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes: Moments of Torah with Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes: Rabbi Bradley Artson Videos
Why the Bible is a Terrible Book (and worth reading on a regular basis)
God Almighty? No Way!
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
The Hidden Holiness of the Secular New Year
Voting is Holy
Dancing with You from "Here" to "There"
One Dove's Pluck
Prayer on Mother's Day
How Not to Respond to the Flood
Child of God
Prayer for the Homeless
Process and Torah
The Bible is a Book of Inclusion and Love
And So We Speak for Peace
What is a Miracle?
Not in Our Name
Avinu Malkeinu
Thirty Six Lures for Feeling
After the Earthquake
A Lament That Never Ends
A Prayer for All of Us
Come What May
She is a Benefit to Herself
Four Reasons I'm Bound to Israel
Turtles and Whales (and Us)
Judaism: An Introduction
犹太教:生活方式、哲学、文化以及信念
Becoming - East and West
Constellation of Process Theology
Only in This Should You Glory
Vibrating Over the Face of the Deep
Voting Biblically
To Choose Life
Self-Evident Truths
Pulse
The Omer
Two Thanksgiving Essays
Jewish Environmentalism
The Risk (and Glory) of Freedom
Teri Daily
>
What is Missing in Process Theology?
What an Orthodox-Oriented Christian Priest Learns from Process Theology
Orthodoxy and Process: A Parish Priest Encounters Process Theology
Vulnerable to the Questions: The Role of Doubt in Faith
May I Try That One Again? The Grace of a Million Second Chances
Love Made Gritty
Mary Our Priest
Why Be Christian
Creation as Gift-Exchange: A Reflection for the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul
To Harm or to Heal: the Power of Words
Can I, Too, Be an Interfaith Leader?
Finding Wisdom Between Love and Awe
When the Light Shines Through
Finding Grace in a Bowl of Ashes
These Kids Are Gorgeous!
Why Is It So Hard to Forgive? Are Baby Steps Alright?
Taize, France: Window into the Radical Hospitality of God
A Tattoo of the Heart
Being Saved in Ordinary Moments: An Easter Vigil Sermon
John B. Cobb, Jr
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John Cobb on David Korten
The Postmodern John Cobb: Deconstructive and Constructive
The Idea of Vocation by John B. Cobb, Jr.
Five Foundations for an Ecological Ciivilization
Economic Justice and Process Philosophy
Whitehead's Theory of Value
Becoming - East and West
Patricia Adams Farmer
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The Great Pregnancy
What is Fat Soul Philosophy?
The Numinosity of Rocks
Gravity and Grief
Grief Takes a Road Trip
The Spiritual Alphabet: C
Why I Am a Vegetarian
Language, Luck, and Lures
Boston the Beautiful
No Tiny God
The Sky Remains
Patience is All
Fat Soul
Novel Theology: Confessions of a Whiteheadian Novelist
On the Gratitude of Trees
A Bejeweled World
Defiant Joy
Love All Beginnings
Under the Red Hats: White Rage, and the Quest for Empathy
A Theology of Tea
The Beauty of an Open-Ended Life
Beauty as a Spiritual Home
An Antidote to the Ugliness of Trumpism
Cropping Out All Green at Sixty
When the Devil Goes to Church
The Beauty of Imperfection
Black Bean Brownies and Grace
The Creative Life
After the Terror, I Return to Etty Hillesum
Growing an Ecological Soul with Help from Pope Francis
The Pope's Favorite
Inhabit Your Situation
The Meaning of Success Revisited
Elizabeth Bouvier-Fitzgerald
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The Six People with Perfect Parents (and other misfortunes)
Kill Your Television: Friendly Advice from Your Mental Health Counselor
Paul Ingram
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The Pluralism of Life and Death
Thinking about Thinking about God
On Catching Glimpses of the Sacred
Jay McDaniel
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Last Lecture: Jay McDaniel
Open Horizons: The Methodological Spirit of Open Horizons as Cross-Cutural Ecopoetics
Finding God in Rivers and Dogs
God with a Spacious Heart
O Holy Night: A Short Reflection for Christmas Eve
I Believe in a God of Commas
Ann Lamott: Theologian for the Rest of Us
On Being the English Teacher for a Zen Master
Bob Mesle
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Relational Power
A Soul is Not a Thing
Suffering and Meaning
Farhan Shah
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A Process Interpretation of Islam
What is the Concept of Reform in Islam?
How the Qur'an Reveals God's Becoming
Human Beings as Co-Workers with God
Muhammad Iqbal's Concept of God
Islam and the Interpretative Activity
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