Open Horizons is for the curious-minded.

We gather essays and reflections across spirituality, science, art, philosophy, theology, ecology, music, design, literature, and more—each exploring how a relational, evolving universe invites creative and compassionate response.

​Taken together, these writings present not a single doctrine but an expanding field of possibilities for thinking, feeling, and acting in a world understood as dynamic, interconnected, and alive. 



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Most Recent Posts
​updated 5/15/2026​

  1. ​Energy, Emotion, and Meaning In the More than Human World: Whitehead's Aesthetic Cosmology
  2. ​Creativity as the Metaphysical Ground of God and the World: Four Passages from Whitehead
  3. Participatory Grace: Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
  4. ​A Parapsychogical Bucket List: 71 Extraordinary States of Consciousness
  5. Intersubjective Empathy: Yogācāra Buddhism and Process Philosophy
  6. Art-Making as a Spiritual Practice: A Whiteheadian Approach
  7. Energy and Animacy: The Hidden Currents of American Cultural Life
  8. The Joy and Suffering of Insects: Expanding Our Sense of Kinship and Divine Purpose
  9. Do Actual Entities Have Fun? The Actual Occasion as a Ludic Event
  10. ​​​Octopus Consciousness: Felt Experience in our Octopus Kin
  11. Divine Love and the Gift of Religious Diversity: Adis Duderija
  12. How to Experience God in Everyday Life even if You're not sure What you Believe​
  13. Animal Minds in a More-Than-Human World
  14. Milkweed Hope: Nita Gilger​
  15. Where is the Individual Subject in Whitehead's Philosophy? Six Pitfalls to Avoid
  16. ​​Dear God, Please Open Me to the Spirit of Play: NIta Gilger​
  17. ​Can a Hummingbird be a Buddhist, Too?


​Table of Contents



1. Process Metaphysics and Whiteheadian Philosophy​
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2. Theology, God, and Mysticism


​3. Buddhism and Asian Thought 
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4. Meditation and Prayer


5. Art and Performance


6. Ecology, Animals, and the Living Cosmos


7. Psychic Energy and Paranormal Experience


8. Ecological Civilization and Political Love


9. Health and Care of the Soul


10. Social Justice


11. Imagination and Humor


12. Science, Relativity, and Quantum Theory


13. Education


14. Literature
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15. Film


16. Visual Art


17. Creative Writing


18. Music
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A More Complete but
​Uncataloged List of Essays
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  1. ​A Parapsychogical Bucket List: 71 Extraordinary States of Consciousness
  2. Intersubjective Empathy: Yogācāra Buddhism and Process Philosophy
  3. Art-Making as a Spiritual Practice: A Whiteheadian Approach
  4. Energy and Animacy: The Hidden Currents of American Cultural Life
  5. The Joy and Suffering of Insects: Expanding Our Sense of Kinship and Divine Purpose
  6. Do Actual Entities Have Fun? The Actual Occasion as a Ludic Event
  7. ​​​Octopus Consciousness: Felt Experience in our Octopus Kin
  8. Divine Love and the Gift of Religious Diversity: Adis Duderija
  9. How to Experience God in Everyday Life even if You're not sure What you Believe
  10. From "It" to "You" - A Process Philosophy of Animal Minds
  11. Animal Minds in a More-Than-Human World
  12. Milkweed Hope: Nita Gilger​
  13. Where is the Individual Subject in Whitehead's Philosophy? Six Pitfalls to Avoid
  14. ​​Dear God, Please Open Me to the Spirit of Play: NIta Gilger
  15. Divine Love and the Gift of Religious Diversity: Adis Duderija
  16. ​Can a Hummingbird be a Buddhist, Too?
  17. American Christianity as Lost in a Fog: Vikki Randall
  18. The Creative, Non-Anxious Mind: Whitehead's Peace and Buddhist Equanimity
  19. Five Proposals from Nāgārjuna
  20. Nāgārjuna and Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection
  21. ​Third-Person and First-Person Approaches to Life: Science, Religion, ​and Experience
  22. Ezumezu Logic in a Glocalized World: The Creation of Philosophical Villages
  23. The African School of Conversation Philosophy and Whitehead’s Metaphysics
  24. Life-Giving Wisdom from Classical Chinese Philosophy
  25. Ìwà: ​Emmanuel Ofuasia and African Process Philosophy
  26. ​Heroes, Monsters, and Faith: The Moral Imagination of Christian Soldiers
  27. Hosts to Possibility:​ The Creative Life in Process Perspective
  28. Process Philosophy and Mystical Atheism
  29. Felt, Not Measured: A Whiteheadian Response to Algorithmic Culture​​
  30. God and the Primacy of the Felt: ​A Relational Response to Algorithmic Culture
  31. ​What is the Mind? A Process Proposal
  32. ​Omnisubjectivity: Feeling God's Friendship in the Here-and-Now
  33. Being Present to the World Differently: A Buddhist Path ​
  34. ​Winging It: God and Creativity in an ​Improvisational Universe ​
  35. Compassionate Intelligence: A Buddhist Vision for AI
  36. Process Theology & the Musical Brain: Every Brain Needs Music
  37. Process Philosophy and the Emergent Mind
  38. The Politics of Love: Feeling, Authority, and Public Life in Mainland China
  39. Is Solidity an Illusion? A Note on Whitehead and Quantum Fields
  40. Singing in the Shower: An Open and Relational Theology of Everyday Flourishing ​
  41. 8 Billion Artists: The Arts as a Vital Component of Human Health
  42. Four Modes of Time: Measured, Lived, Unending, and Eternal
  43. After Religion, After Atheism: ​What Comes Next?
  44. World O World: Jacob Collier
  45. From Page to Voice: The Rise of Sonic Knowing in a Post-Literate World
  46. ​Philomena Cunk vs. the Professors
  47. ​Music of Earth and Space: ​Milton Mermikides
  48. ​Beyond Symbolic Liberalism: Co-Creating the Common Good with Sari Hanafi
  49. ​Flowing Beneath the Surface: Sociologists Look at "Social Love" in Daily Life
  50. Sociology and the Concept of Social Love in Daily Life
  51. The Galilean Vision and the Gaudiness of Power
  52. ​The Future of the Process Movement​
  53. Process Philosophy and the Post-Liberal Turn
  54. Toward a Process Post-Liberalism: ​A Civic Creed in Twelve Theses
  55. The Magic in Nature: Darwin, Dickinson, and Whitehead
  56. ​Flourishing Together: Aristotle, Oord, and the Common Good
  57. ​Tending the Wounds: Trauma Studies and the God Who Suffers With Us
  58. From Un-Seeing to Seeing: A Reflection on Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s Theology of Visibility
  59. Between Pollyanna and Goth: An Open and Relational Christian Vision
  60. Chaucer and Whitehead: Plurality, Novelty, and Lived Experience
  61. Fallacy of the Perfect Dictionary: Ideas about Ideas
  62. The God Who Throws Nothing Away: A Gatherer of Fragments and a Love Recycler
  63. Thomas Oord’s Systematic Theology of Love (Vol. I): Springboards for Reflection
  64. Seventeen Reasons to Be Liberal: Liberalism as a Way of Life
  65. The Slow Death of Long-Form, Immersive Reading
  66. ​Acting as Becoming: Stanislavski and Whitehead
  67. Illiberalism: A Movement Shaping Our Time
  68. Does Whitehead offer a Metaphysical Foundation for Generous Conservatism in the 21st Century?
  69. Shakespeare, Whitehead, and Quantum Mechanics: Ontologies of the Possible
  70. Love of Home and World Loyalty: Oikophilia and Cosmopolitanism
  71. ​Augustine and Whitehead: Six Spiritual Affinities
  72. Ever Ancient, Ever New: An Augustinian Process Theology
  73. ​We Need Kant Now: Life Lessons from Immanuel Kant
  74. ​Lamenting Injustice: Vikki Randall, Soong-Chan Rah
  75. ​Against "Little Caesars" - Why Cicero Matters Today
  76. ​Furious Minds: Intellectual Sources for the MAGA New Right - Laura K. Field
  77. ​Love is a Peculiarly Human Calling: ​Sollereder and Oord
  78. We Need Plato Now: Five Reasons​
  79. ​Ultra-Sensory Experience: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of the Senses
  80. Whitehead at BNBU: Whole-Person Education in a Chinese Liberal Arts University
  81. Beyond Systems and Patterns: The Subjective Immediacy of Private Feelings
  82. Organic Vitality and Daoist Flow: Whitehead, Wordsworth, and Qi
  83. ​​Philosophy May Not Neglect the Fairies: A Role for Imaginal Beings in a Reenchanted World
  84. ​Intercultural Listening: Whitehead and a Liberal Arts Orchestra in China
  85. ​Qi and its Circulation ​from the Perspective of Process Philosophy: Zhenbao Jin
  86. ​Wild Geese Rising: Gayle Hansen Browne on Moment-by-Moment Contemplative Action
  87. ​​Fidelity to Felt Contrasts: Sublunary Theology
  88. The Courage of Presence: Playing Horatio in Hamlet
  89. Emotional? Yes. Tragedy? No. Mary Fridley on Reimaging Dementia
  90. Music, Memory, and Desire: Proust, Augustine, and Whitehead
  91. ​​Prehension: John Cobb and Jay McDaniel
  92. Violent Frenzies and Candlelight Vigils: Whitehead and Crowd Psychology
  93. Whitehead and Monteverdi
  94. Trying Out New Things as a way of Being Faithful to God as Love ​
  95. Beyond Right-Wing Populism and Secular Liberalism
  96. Politics and the Lust for Domination: Augustine and Whitehead
  97. Process Philosophy and the Call for a New Paradigm of Thought: Jirong Chen
  98. Christians for Greenland
  99. Murder in Minnesota: Bob Mesle
  100. We Are Kalaallit Nunaat: The Greenland Way​
  101. Seeing Life Differently: The Greenland Way
  102. Enchanted Space: A Process Philosophy of Opera
  103. God as Kindness
  104. ​Maria Callas: The Human Voice as a Site ​of Intensified Feeling​
  105. The Joy of Making Things: A Process Philosophy of Design
  106. The Whitehead School ​of Creativity and Design: Grounding Design in Experience
  107. Foundations: Glossary of Terms in John Cobb's Whitehead Wordbook
  108. Dante, Shakespeare, and Whitehead: Translunar and Sublunar Modes of Thought
  109. Cor ad Cor Loquitur: Heart Speaking to Heart in a Relational Universe ​
  110. With an Intimacy that it will take All Eternity to Explore: The Sermons of John Farthing
  111. Cosmic Consciousness in a Process Cosmology: John H. Buchanan
  112. Beyond Boundaries: Mysticism, Process Thought, and the Limits of Religious Difference
  113. Thinking Sideways: The Joys of Lateral Thinking
  114. Openness to Novelty: Thinking Sideways in a Universe of Becoming
  115. Romulus and Remus: The Haunting Effects of Violent Beginnings
  116. AI Bodhisattvas: Buddhism, Simulated Selves, and Process Metaphysics
  117. Ubiquitous Subjectivity: A Whiteheadian Philosophy of Mind
  118. The Substrate Independence of Embodied Minds: Levin and Whitehead
  119. ​Eleusinian Mysteries: A Process Perspective
  120. ​Shared Ritual Spaces and the Need for Mystery
  121. Umvelten: The Metaphysics of Animal Subjectivity 
  122. Emotional Sentience: A Talk by Katherine Peil Kauffman
  123. Biosemiotics: A Talk by Kalevi Kull
  124. Emotional Sentience as a Flowing of the Dao: Katherine Peil Kauffman
  125. All Creatures Seek Meaning: Whitehead and Biosemiotics
  126. Imagination: Coleridge, Barfield, and Whitehead
  127. Ecological Civilization in China as an Aspirational ideal: Yang Lidi​
  128. God and the Godhead: The Metaphysical Ground of the All-Loving God
  129. Seeking a Deeper Ground: God and the Godhead in Whitehead's Philosophy
  130. Prehension and Psychedelics: John H Buchanan
  131. Metaphysical Difficulties in Process Theology: W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
  132. ​Process Mysticism by Daniel A. Dombrowski: Book Review by Adis Duderija
  133. ​A Deeper Sense of Belonging: Process Philosophy and Qigong
  134. Qi and Qigong: Breath, Movement, Creativity
  135. Feeling, Meaning, and Art: Susanne K. Langer
  136. The Principles of Creation in Art: Susanne K. Langer
  137. What is Consciousness? David Ray Griffin and Alfred North Whitehead
  138. Whitehead's Misconception of 'Substance' in Aristotle: James W. Felt, S.J.
  139. Psychic Energy: David Ray Griffin
  140. ​The Momentary Self: On Letting Go and Becoming Again
  141. The Universe in a Grain of Sand: Whitehead's Relational Ontology
  142. ​The Impermanence of Permanence: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  143. ​Novel Togetherness: Whitehead's Non-Numerical Notion of Oneness
  144. ​When Empathy Becomes Clingy: Process and Gloopiness
  145. Breakdancing in Uganda: A Process Appreciation
  146. "Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age" - Process Philosophy meets Lois Holzman
  147. Countering Hate Speech Through Video Art: A UNESCO-Awarded Initiative ​​
  148. The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Celebration of Plants
  149. Process Philosophy and the Twelve-Step Program: John Buchanan 
  150. Harmony and Intensity: The Sounds of the Chinese Guzheng
  151. "All in God" and "God in All" - A Whiteheadian Response to Thomas Oord​​
  152. Rhythm & Balance, Trust & Confidence: Finding God in Hippotherapy​​
  153. Does God Care What We Eat? Tim Miller
  154. Some Psychological Implications of Process Philosophy: John H. Buchanan
  155. ​People who love Plants: Horticultural Therapy in a Hurried World
  156. Psychedelics and Panentheism: A Whiteheadian Response to Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
  157. A Process-Relational Look at the Nicene Creed: Paul S. Nancarrow
  158. Art, Nature, and Science: The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
  159. Ghosts, Trolls & Hidden People: Enchanted Naturalism
  160. Leaving the Leaves: A Simple Way to Care for Life
  161. An Ontology of Gardening: Process Philosophy and Margaret Roach
  162. The Grammar of Animacy: Braiding Sweetgrass and Process Philosophy
  163. Topiary Art and Philosophy: Michael Gibson
  164. ​Send in the Clowns: The Transmutation of Loss into Tragic Beauty
  165. ​Trees Can Save the World, and We Can Help Them: Basil Camu
  166. Actual Entities as Adverbs: AN Whitehead
  167. Whitehead on Science, Religion, ​and the Phases of Experience
  168. An Ecological Civilization in Your Own Backyard: Douglas Tallamy​
  169. Play, Perform, Learn, Grow: Dan Friedman
  170. ​God both Hidden and Unhidden: Tim Miller, Jay McDaniel
  171. ​The Sound of Divine Hunger: A Note on Messiaen’s Le Banquet Céleste 
  172. ​Roland Faber on Transreligious Dialogue: Adis Duderija
  173. ​Cultural Capital and the Need to Feel Relevant: ​Bourdieu meets Whitehead
  174. ​Chinese Tradition, Process Thought, and Ecological Civilization: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
  175. ​Being Watched: ​Foucault, Whitehead, and the Ontology of Attention
  176. Reclaiming Interiority and Creativity in a Panoptical World: Foucault and Whitehead
  177. ​Performance Activism and Social Transformation: Dan Friedman
  178. An Olfactory Way of Knowing​: A Whiteheadian Approach to Smell
  179. ​That Smelly Feeling: Whitehead on the Sense of Smell
  180. ​Shaken into New Becoming: ​Whitehead, Empathy, and the Trembling Self
  181. Waste-Not Philosophy: A Spiritual Alternative to Throwaway Culture
  182. Thinking Sideways: Reflections on Constructive Weirdness
  183. Great Books, Gardening, and Community: A Quiet Revolution 
  184. Sitting Around a Table Talking about Deep Questions inspired by an Excellent Book
  185. ​A Different Kind of Permanence: Whitehead's Philosophy as a Footnote to Plato
  186. Adventures in Clumsiness: ​In Appreciation of Awkward Beauty
  187. ​The Green Leaf and the Round Ball: Whitehead's Reformed Subjectivist Principle
  188. Empathy, Coexistence, & Rebirth: Contemporary Chinese Eco-Art
  189. The Beauty of Huayao: Meijun Fan 
  190. Empathy for Plants and People: Shen Shaomin’s Bonsai series
  191. God and Dr. Faustus: An Open and Relational Understanding of the Devil
  192. Scraps of Light: Finding God in the Adorable
  193. ​No Inert Matter: A Puff of Existence in Far-Off Empty Space
  194. Does God love Puffs of Energy in Far-Off Empty Space?
  195. ​​Whitehead on Biblical Sayings: Propositions as Lures for Feeling ​
  196. ​Hamlet and Whitehead: Propositions as Lures for Feeling ​
  197. ​​Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute
  198. ​​Poetry and Patience: God as the Poet of the World
  199. ​Expanding Our Sense of the Possible: David Ray Griffin on Levitation
  200. Whitehead Nerd Quiz
  201. ​We are All Made of the Same Water: Bob Mesle
  202. Interior Freedom: Becoming Unstuck
  203. Does the Universe Enjoy Itself? Whitehead's Aesthetics of Self-Enjoyment
  204. I am Strong - Jesus is Woke - Cursed are the Meek
  205. Non-Neural Minds: A Whiteheadian Imagination
  206. ​​Concrescence Beyond the Brain: Process Philosophy and Non-Neural Intelligences
  207. ​Who Needs a Brain? An Open and Relational Theology of Non-Neural Minds
  208. ​Plasma, Planets, and Possibility: ​Imagining Intelligence through Whitehead's Categoreal Obligations
  209. Electromagnetic Theology: Energy Fields and the Heart's Intuitive Guidance
  210. Electromagnetism: ​Laws of Nature, Cosmic Epochs, Subjectivity and Wavelengths
  211. Beyond the Unmoved Mover: Adis Duderija
  212. Everyday Provocateurs: Cynics for the Common Good
  213. Stillness and Becoming: A Process Appreciation of Hesychastic Prayer
  214. Wanting to be a Mystic: Jay McDaniel
  215. Penumbral Theology: God as a Field of Love ​
  216. Kelly Chase on UFO Phenomena: Ten Points of Contact with Process Philosophy
  217. As the Fox Chases the Rabbit, Whose Side is God On?
  218. Process Thought Helps us Live a More Abundant Life: Reflections on the 18th Process Summer Academy​
  219. Is Whitehead's Critique of ​Scientific Materialism Outdated?
  220. Whitehead's Idea of Beauty: An Invitation to Further Thought
  221. ​Tragic Beauty in Whitehead: The Dream of Youth, the Harvest of Tragedy
  222. Deeper than Joy or Sorrow: Whitehead on the Task of Theology
  223. TheoSpark: A Theological Board Game
  224. Strength of Beauty, Suffering, & ​the Merits of Imperfection: AN Whitehead
  225. Hybrid Physical Feelings: Whitehead's Groundbreaking Idea ​and Ten Implications
  226. Why not a Kinder, Gentler World? ​Whitehead's Notion of "Persuasive Agencies"
  227. ​The Metaphysics of Empathy: Vector Feelings in Whitehead's Pan-Empathic Universe
  228. Why not a Kinder, Gentler World? ​ Whitehead's Notion of "Persuasive Agencies" 
  229. The Causal Influence the Future: Anticipatory Feelings and Precognition
  230. Reasons Why I Value Process Thought: Adis Duderija
  231. Science, Creativity, and Beauty: Whitehead and Wordsworth
  232. A Gracious, Simple Mode of Life - Whitehead on the Ethical Ideal of Inclusive Love ​
  233. When Your Neighbor ​is a Christian Nationalist: A Process-Relational Approach
  234. Divine Companionship as Deep Listening: Tracy Tucker’s Can We Talk About Death?
  235. Literary Modernism: A Mood and a Movement
  236. A Feeling of Cleanliness  Whitehead on the Subjective Side of Perceived Truth
  237. ​​​Apophatic and Cataphatic Pastoral Care: An Open and Relational Approach
  238. Where is God in Pastoral Care? An Open and Relational Approach​
  239. The Gift of Perplexity: Whitehead on Plato
  240. Improvising the World Anew: Vygotsky, Whitehead, and the Spirit of Performance Activism
  241. Perplexity as Sacred Ground: Apophatic Pastoral Care
  242. Listening to the Hopes of Conservatives and Liberals
  243. God both Hidden and Unhidden: A Process Response to Tim Miller
  244. What the World Needs Now: World Loyalty & Local Love
  245. Language as a Living Practice: Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Social Therapeutics
  246. Singing with Friends: Open and Relational Musicking
  247. To Music Is to Co-Become: ​A Process-Relational Understanding of Musicking ​
  248. ​Co-Created Relational Energy: Music as Healing Balm
  249. Spiritual Warfare: The Power of Malevolent Energies
  250. ​Whitehead’s Satan: A Permanent Track in the Abyss
  251. Abide with me, Fast Falls the Eventide: Whitehead on the Metaphysics of a Hymn
  252. Two Kinds of Process Thinkers: Bohemians and System-Builders ​
  253. Little Boy Politicians: Whitehead, Jung, and the Juvenile Soul
  254. ​Civilizational Adventures: Whitehead, the Joy of Novelty, ​and a Mission to Mars
  255. ​Finding God in the Memory Café: No One Outside the Circle
  256. Youth, Zest and the Tragic Side of Life: Whitehead's Reflections
  257. ​Whitehead's Metaphysics of Zest
  258. No Experience Left Behind: Whitehead's Radically Inclusive Epistemology
  259. Tastes of Infinity: Art and the Consoling Power of Beauty
  260. Intellectual Hospitality: Whitehead's Practice of Assemblage as a Civic Virtue
  261. That Rome, That Europe: Whitehead on how History transcends Ideas
  262. A Universe with Fifteen Dimensions? Transcending Three-Dimensional Parochialism
  263. A Love that Does Not Let Go: Whitehead on the Poignancy of a Dog's Feelings ​​
  264. God’s Call to Dye My Hair Silver: On Reinvention, Longing, and the Divine Lure
  265. ​​I Believe in Mary Magdalene: A Process-Relational Approach
  266. Whitehead on Art: Ten Key Ideas
  267. Sin as a Sacred Wound: Richard Wiltshire
  268. New Traditionalists and Progressive Postmodernists: Richard Wiltshire​​​
  269. Loving Life Even in its Brokenness: Whitehead on the Intuition of Peace
  270. Scorpions in the Mind: Process Theology and Trauma ​
  271. The Pregnancy of the Abyss: How Paradise Lost Prefigures Whitehead
  272. Whitehead on the Goddess Atè: God as the Remorseless Working of Things
  273. ​​Not a Mirror but a Lure: Wittgenstein’s Gift to Process Philosophy
  274. On Being a Conservative with Roots and Wings: Leo Strauss and AN Whitehead ​  ​
  275. Whitehead on the Desire to be Famous
  276. Hamlet Concrescing: The Aesthetics of a ​Radically Inward Soul
  277. Process and Experience: Sensory and Trans-Sensory, Ordinary and Extraordinary
  278. ​Insistent Particularity: Concreteness in a World of Becoming
  279. Quiddity and ​Haecceity: Whatness and Thisness in a World of Becoming
  280. The Resilience of the Supernatural: Ross Douthat and Process Theology
  281. The Ground Beneath our Feet: David Ray Griffin on Common Sense Philosophy
  282. Phoenix Theology: A Process Philosophy in support of People Who Rise from Ashes
  283. The Wound and the Promise: The Fisher King, the Holy Grail, and Process Philosophy
  284. Moving On by Creating Beauty
  285. Three Visions of Power: Armipotence, Amipotence, Omnipotence
  286. A Sovereignty of Softness: Reimagining Empire as Love without Flags
  287. Pixies for a Better World: The Mischievous Side of Love
  288. Christ and the Fairies: Whitehead on the Multifariousness of the World
  289. ​Tone of Voice: Process Philosophy and the Sonic Side of Speech​
  290. Beyond Opsomania: Whitehead and the Aesthetics of Creative Living
  291. ​A Theology of Purple Rain: Love, Loss, and Lure of Intensity
  292. The Need to Secularize the Concept of God: Alfred North Whitehead
  293. Y'all: An Open and Relational Appreciation of Complex, Composite Selfhood
  294. They Hear my Words but Not my World: From Logocentric to Relational Listening
  295. God only Knows ​What I'd Be Without You: How Love Shapes Our Lives
  296. The Basis of Experience is Emotional: Feeling the Moods of Others
  297. ​Throbs of Emotional Energy: Whitehead's Idea that the Universe is Alive with Desire and Feeling ​​
  298. Beyond Systems and Patterns: Respect for Individuals as Self-Creative Subjects
  299. Peaceable Kingdom: Art, Prayer, and Practice
  300. Religion without a Personal God: The Non-Theistic Strand of Process Theology
  301. Nihilism, Martin Heidegger, the Kyoto School, and Process Philosophy: Dr. Edgar Blanco Carrero
  302. An Evolving Torah from an Evolving God: Dr. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
  303. I Pray before I Vote: The Open and Relational Legislator
  304. Mindful Metaphysics: Head, Hands, and Heart
  305. The New Traditionalism: Converts to Orthodoxy as an Ocean of Possibility
  306. Musicking: Music as a Dynamic, Relational Event
  307. Five Quail Eggs: Tilly Woodward and the Art of Small Things
  308. Practical Skills Therapeutic Education: For Children and Adults with Learning Challenges
  309. The Moving Image of Eternity: Whitehead on Michelangelo
  310. Stillness and Swirling: Permanence and Flux in Whitehead's Philosophy
  311. Comedy as Dislocated Desire: Molière and Whitehead
  312. Cross-Cultural Education and the American Soul: Toward an America that Listens Again​
  313. Whitehead and Augustine on Freedom: Maria Lupe Llanes
  314. What is a Unicorn? The Ontological Status of Imagined Realities
  315. Bob Dylan as Secular Psalmist: His Fifty Best Songs
  316. God in the Operating Room: Process Theology and Surgery
  317. There Is No Right Answer: Process Theology and Sophie's Choice
  318. ​Queerfully & Wonderfully Made: Vikki Randall
  319. Brokenhearted Love: A Process Interpretation of Divine Wrath
  320. Dragon Fruit: A Philosophical Theology
  321. Are Some People Not Worth Grieving For? The Theology of Cruelty
  322. ​​Theology in a Fast Car: I had a Feeling I Could Be Someone​
  323. We Are Family: Theology You Can Dance To
  324. Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Intense: The Byronic Hero
  325. Reimagining Christ for an Evolving World: ​Austin Roberts
  326. Learning to Live in My Body An Open and Relational Approach
  327. Universal Love as a Plasmatic Field: A Theology of the Spirit in Motion
  328. The Cambrian Explosion and Process Theology: ​We, Too, are an Experiment.
  329. A Turning toward Love: From Process Theology to Relational Wisdom
  330. ​Beware the Self-Satisfied CHINO (Christian In Name Only)
  331. Peace be with You: ​The Amipotent Spirit of Pope Leo's First Words​
  332. I want Satisfying Work and I want to Help People: A Relational Theology of Work
  333. Antarctic Moments: The Hidden Beauty of Silence and Solitude
  334. Open and Relational Kali: The Wildness of Divine Love​
  335. The Plasmatic Personality: Living with Charged Aliveness in a Solid-Seeming World​​
  336. Seeds of Hope in a Time of Need: Micro-Communities, Relational Fields, and Ecological Civilization​​​
  337. From Faust to Francis: Reimagining Ambition in a World Becoming​​
  338. The Contentious Marriage of Christianity and Capitalism:: Can It Be Annulled?​​
  339. Whitehead and Leo Strauss: Eternal Ideals, Philosophic Humility, the Crisis of Modernity, and the Re-enchantment of Nature​
  340. Open and Relational Catholicism: A Possibility Waiting to Happen
  341. ​Trump Paganism versus Christian Compassion​
  342. How Moods Disclose the World: Heidegger and Whitehead in Conversation
  343. ​The Whiteheadian Flea Market: Where Possibility Meets Pre-Loved Actuality
  344. The Shoreline Walks Me: Beachcombing as a Spiritual Practice ​
  345. The Three Little Pigs: A Process Theology
  346. Using Traditional Language​ in a Process Way
  347. ​Reimagining Supernaturalism​: Whitehead, Novelty, and the Living Cosmos​
  348. ​Green Grace: Finding God in Houseplants
  349. Carrying On as a Spiritual Practice: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  350. Creation out of Nothing Reimagined: Process Philosophy and the Primordial Decision of God​
  351. ​Cosmic Dust and Tenderness: Galactic Evolution and Sentient Life​
  352. Where the Light Falls: On Chickens, Compassion, and Animal Subjectivity
  353. Sometimes Omnipotence means Infinite Love: A More Expansive Process Theology
  354. ​Our Joyful, Welcoming Pope: Pope Francis' Spiritual Teachings​
  355. Beyond Semantic Absolutism: Why Process Thinkers need Wittgenstein
  356. ​We Who Mop: Dignity and Divine Presence in Domestic Labor​
  357. ​A Theology of Cruelty: The Moral Meltdown of the United States​
  358. Theology Mapped and Glimpsed: Big Ideas and Sideways Glances
  359. Why Play Still Matters When the World is Falling Apart
  360. ​Process Theology of Cat Lovers​
  361. Finding God in Quiet Moments: A Process Theology of Mindfulness
  362. ​Taking Care of My Mother: Process Theology and Caregiving
  363. ​​World-Making and Sonic Space: A Process Reflection on Sound Objects​
  364. Missing my Daughter: Process Theology and Grief ​
  365. ​​The Lure to be Curious: Process Theology and Lifelong Learning
  366. Process Theology for People in Recovery
  367. Process Theology for Caregivers​​​
  368. Process Theology for People Who Talk To Trees​
  369. Process Theology for Dog-Lovers
  370. Planting Seeds: Sermons as Lures for Feeling
  371. ​Thrift Store Dandyism as a Metaphysical Performance​
  372. ​​Thrift Store Mysticism: Love for what has been Softened by Time
  373. ​​Notes from a Process Gardener: Pollinator Gardens as Symbols of Hope​
  374. ​Meaning and/or Aliveness: What Are We Seeking in Life?
  375. Yearning for Beauty: ​Whitehead's Metaphysics and the Phenomenology of Desire
  376. ​Sinless Jesus? A Reflection by John Cobb
  377. ​​​It Begins by Opening the Eyes: Contemplative Prayer and the Photography of Thomas Oord
  378. ​Entangled Amipotence: A Photograph by Thomas Oord​
  379. The Whiteheadian Street Mystic: Metaphysics with Calluses on its Hands​​
  380. If Music be the Food of Love, Play On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Eucharist ​
  381. ​​​Cosmic Calligraphy: Reading Process and Reality as if ​it were written in Chinese​
  382. ​Language and the Living Earth: A Whiteheadian Exploration​
  383. ​​​Beyond the Alphabet: Process Thought Across Linguistic Worlds
  384. ​Mysticism in Many Forms: Horizontal and Vertical, Ecstatic and Everyday
  385. Replanting Yourself in Beauty: A Theology of Replenishment
  386. ​The Quaking and Shaking of Everything: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  387. After Oedipus: The Evolution of Open and Relational Theology
  388. ​Being Breathed by God: Reflections on Divine Inspiration​
  389. The Mean-ification of America™ - Making Cruelty Convenient Again
  390. Is God Personal? Reflections by John Cobb
  391. Where is the Past? A Reflection by John Cobb
  392. ​​SPARKS: An Arts Collective Rooted in Process and Possibility
  393. ​The Miraculous: A Reflection by Bradley Shavit Artson
  394. ​​Parapsychology and Miracles: Reflections by John Cobb​
  395. ​​Performing Gender: Shakespeare, ​Whitehead, and Queer Theology
  396. The Long Road of Love: Process Theology in a Time of Disillusionment
  397. ​Teilhard and Whitehead on Hope: Finding Omega in a Time of Need
  398. ​Celebrating John Cobb: An American Friend and Mentor in China (Meijun Fan)
  399. ​In Memory of John B. Cobb: Helen Zhang Haiyan (mainland China)
  400. ​Panoramic Sound Quilting: Matana Roberts and Process Thought
  401. ​Process Super-Naturalism: Beyond the Bifurcation of Natural and Supernatural​
  402. ​Embodied Prehensions: A Process Theology of Touch​​​
  403. A More Expansive Process Theology: Reclaiming Omnipotence and Supernaturalism​
  404. Local Bonds and World Loyalty: Reflections on Process and Patriotism
  405. Making Space for Omnipotence: An Appeal to Open and Relational Theologians
  406. ​Political Rhetoric:​ Whitehead, Mark Antony, and the Emotional Power of Language
  407. A More Manly Christianity: A Satirical Updating of the Gospel of Love​
  408. ​The Interior Life of an Elevator: Panexperiential Ergonomics
  409. ​​Underwear: A Theology
  410. The Emotional Life of Bees and the Polycentric Love of God​
  411. Process & Coffee: Aesthetics, Ethics, Spirituality, and Hospitality
  412. Finding Beauty in Everyday Life: Jaroslav Seifert and AN Whitehead
  413. Solidarity of the Shaken: Jan Patočka, Whitehead, and the Ethics of Contingency
  414. Csárdás and the Living Universe: Dedicated to Attila Grandpierre
  415. Living in Truth: Process Theology and Václav Havel ​
  416. ​Becoming Human, Seeking Truth: ​Process Theology and Pinocchio​
  417. ​​Jesus Denied Entry to the U.S. – Officials Cite Economic & Security Concerns​
  418. Jesus at the Infinity Pool? Luxury Resorts and the Exclusion of God​
  419. ​​The Tree of Process Thought: Three Points of Entry to the Process Movement
  420. ​Beyond Priggishness: Theology Beer Camps and Shakespeare's Falstaff​ ​​​
  421. ​Being is Becoming: Process Theology and the Wizard of Oz
  422. Serving the Common Good: Confucian Insights for American Democracy ​
  423. ​​​​​​​​Harry Potter, Hamlet, and God: Characters in our Imagination ​
  424. Official Announcement: First Annual Congressional Conformity Competition
  425. Breaking News: Congress Moves to Ban the Beatitudes as Un-American! (satire)
  426. Who Doth Love Me Most? Politics, ​the Culture of Flattery and King Lear ​​
  427. Whitehead's Theory of Value: John Cobb​
  428. Experience Everywhere: Actual Entities, Creativity, and God
  429. Divine Cytoplasm: A Fluid Presence Facilitating Communication between Cells​​
  430. Building a Cathedral ​of Love and Beauty: Teilhard and Process Philosophy ​​​​ 
  431. ​Breaking News: Compassion Takes Official Leave of Absence from Government​ (satire)
  432. Executive Order from the President: Termination of Employment for Jesus of Nazareth
  433. Jesus was Bad for America - So we had to fire him (satire)​​
  434. Jesus Visits the King's Palace: Too Much Opulence​​
  435. Resilience & The Prickly Pear Heart: Nita Gilger​​
  436. Ordering Desires and Love: Thomas Jay Oord
  437. ​Praying for the Villain: Shakespeare, Process Theology, and Transformative Love​
  438. ​Becoming a Pocket of Grace: Creating Light in a Transactional World
  439. ​Gardening Through the Apocalypse: ​A To-Do List for February
  440. ​​The Cosmic Lure of Love: Teilhard, Whitehead, and the Evolution of Sympathy
  441. Pity the Pompous Prig: God as a Lure to Dance
  442. Moments of Omega: A Thank You Note to Teilhard de Chardin​​
  443. Sun Ra, Whitehead, and a Cosmic Philosophy of Sound
  444. ​You're Absolutely Right! How to become a Political Sycophant​
  445. The Present Storm: Echo Chambers, Sycophancy, and the Will to Power
  446. The Wise and Loving Fool: Christianity and the Courage to Challenge Kings
  447. The Disaster of Shutting Down USAID: J.D. Gingerich​
  448. The Fossil Mystic: A Process Theology of Trilobites​​
  449. ​​Kindness, Beauty, Creativity: The Mood of Process Philosophy
  450. I, Too, am a Wanderer: A Process Theology of Asteroids
  451. The Stalinization of America: Seeking a Christian Alternative
  452. ​Deconstructive Populism: The Visceral Delight of Tearing Things Down
  453. Divine Love-Energy: Ten Ways to Participate in the Flow of Amipotence
  454. ​Humanities Orchards: Creativity and Curiosity in the Local Church​
  455. ​The Road less Travelled: A Christian Politician's Journey beyond Self-Deception
  456. Banquo's Silence:​ Misplaced Loyalty, Servile Flattery, and the Erosion of Dignity​
  457. A Ruthless, Insecure King: Insights from Freud and Whitehead
  458. ​Send in the Clowns: A Process Theology of Playful Resilience
  459. ​A Sanctuary of Listening: Hospitality as the Heart of the Church​
  460. ​Hegel and Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection
  461. What does Leadership Sound Like? Marian Anderson Singing at the Lincoln Memorial​
  462. ​Amipotence with or without God: Living Options in Open and Relational Theology
  463. ​​The Politics We Need: Love, Relationality, and the Amipotent Vision
  464. Emotional Communities: Human, Microbial, Galactic, and Divine
  465. ​Let's Ban Shakespeare: A Christian Call to Action​
  466. ​The Pleasures of Holy Anarchy: Appreciating the Theology of Graham Adams
  467. God as Infinite Receptivity: Dombrowski’s Friendly Amendment to Oord’s Theology
  468. ​A Walk in the Woods: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  469. From Transaction to Transformation: Rethinking Atonement with Nichole Torbitzky
  470. ​God Beyond the Solid: Divine Love as a Relational Field whose Body is the Universe
  471. Solid Bodies Colliding in an Event-Based Ontology
  472. From Solids to Events: Condensed Matter Physics and Whitehead’s Philosophy ​
  473. ​Jimmy Carter: Faith in Action​
  474. ​Geometry and Spirituality: A Theology of Points and Lines
  475. Love, Beauty, and Surprise: The Triad of Process Thought
  476. ​I Didn't Expect That: A Process Theology of Surprise
  477. ​Sacred Rhythms in Daily Life: Finding Balance in a Frenzied World​
  478. Diamonds, Rust, and Gratitude: Process Theology and Joan Baez
  479. ​Sound, Chaos, and the Creativity: The Avant-Garde Music of Iannis Xenakis
  480. The Widening Effect: John Cobb’s Legacy of Imagination, Compassion, and Hope
  481. Studying Whitehead's Process and Reality with John Cobb: A Reminiscence
  482. John Cobb's Guidance: His Vocation, Lifestyle, and Sense of God's Love
  483. Constructive Political Leadership: A Whiteheadian-Shakespearean Approach
  484. ​Warrior Morality vs. the Way of Jesus: Leading by Moral Example
  485. Teach us To Feel: What Extraterrestrials May be Looking For ​
  486. Meaningful Coincidences & Signs from God: Process Theology and Synchronicities
  487. ​This is What Babies Do: O Come Let us Adore Him​
  488. Play, Grace, and Laughter: A Process Theology of Humor
  489. ​A Refusal to be Detached: Reflections on Divine Bathos
  490. ​Three Types of Process Philosophy: Speculative, Experiential, and Mathematical
  491. Perpetual Perishing and Beauty: The Wild Swans of Coole by WB Yeats​
  492. Shakespeare in Prison: Process Theology in Action
  493. Cosmic Epochs, Alternative Worlds, and Inter-Epochal Communication
  494. Praying to the Stars: Amipotence and Intercessory Prayer
  495. Two Friends Beneath the Stars: God as the Heart and Whole of the Universe
  496. ​Enduring a Toothache: Empirical Process Philosophy​
  497. Process and Memory: The Experience of Pastness​​
  498. Jingle Bells and Gentle Tears: The Metaphysics of Listening to Holiday Music
  499. Love and Mystery​: ​Heidegger's Critique of Metaphysics as a Challenge to Whitehead​
  500. Oceans of Possibility: Creative Genealogy and the China Project of CPS
  501. Spirit, Planet, Galaxy: The Expanding Boundaries of Human History
  502. What is & What Can Be: Process Philosophy & Les Misérables​​​​​
  503. ​The Dense Fog of Sycophancy:  ​Process Theology, Jesus, and Integrity in Political Life​​
  504. Shared Earth, Shared Kinship: Renewing Our Relationship with Animals​​
  505. Biopoetic Crickets: Process Theology and the Enjoyment of Chirping
  506. You Must Cultivate Your Garden: Candide's Advice to the Metaphysician​
  507. ​​Weaving Shadows: Process Philosophy in Conversation with Freud
  508. ​Out of Eden: Process Theology and John Milton's Paradise Lost
  509. ​Restless Hearts and Dynamic Grace: Augustine and Process Theology​
  510. Faith and Reason: Enfilade and Mise en Abyme ​
  511. Going to Sleep while Reading: The Cognitive and Spiritual Value of Liminal States of Mind​
  512. The Unseen Embrace: A Process Theology of Gravity
  513. ​The Antikythera Mechanism: Process Theology, Engineering, ​and the World's First Computer​
  514. Process Theology and the Trump Movement: Reimagining Six Trumpian Themes
  515. Rain: A Poem by Nita Gilger
  516. ​I Want to Bathe in the River of Beauty: A Poem by Patricia Adams Farmer
  517. The Enemy of our Better Selves: A Process Theology of the Devil
  518. Small but Tough People: Thriving in Inhospitable Circumstances
  519. ​Walking with Wordsworth: Finding Sanctuary in Green Spaces
  520. Awareness-Based Systems Change: Process Philosophy, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
  521. ​​Filial Piety and Eco-Piety: Process Confucianism
  522. ​Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Courage to Acknowledge Flaws
  523. The Galilean Vision: Following Jesus in an Age of Ruling Caesars​
  524. ​Lead us not into Sleaziness: Process Theology & The Charlatan
  525. ​Co-Creating a Flourishing World: Mindful Metaphysics, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
  526. After the Election: ​Yearning for a Culture of Listening​
  527. The Humility of True Heroes: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Process Perspective
  528. Antigone: A Young Woman's ​Search for Justice
  529. The Flying Elbow Drop: A Process Reflection on Professional Wrestling​
  530. Your Hero is My Villain: A Lesson from Shakespeare
  531. Living Earth Wonder Clubs: An Imaginary Network of Earth-Amazed Families and Friends
  532. Theo-Fandom: Beyoncé, Harry Potter, and Process Philosophy​
  533. Weaving Emotions, Weaving a World: Concrescence and Catharsis
  534. A Visceral Sense of Doom: Whitehead and Sludge Metal
  535. Panexperiential Theology: A Living Cosmos and the Perpetual Newness of God​
  536. Romantic Banter as Embodied Metaphysics: Whitehead's Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
  537. The Polymorphous Self: Identifying with Animals and Mythical Creatures
  538. Us versus Them: Competitive Sports, Partisan Politics, and Process Philosophy
  539. The Myriad-Minded Soul: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Enjoyment of Contrasts​
  540. Authenticity and Morality: A Short Note on Heidegger and Whitehead
  541. The Politics of Scowling: Core Characteristics of the Fascist Personality​
  542. Whitehead, the I Ching, and the Suchness of Pure Potentialities​
  543. A Deeper Dive into Whitehead: The Eight Categories of Existence plus Creativity and God​
  544. ​Wordsworth and Whitehead​
  545. Chinese and American Friendship: Practicing Process Philosophy in a Chinese Kitchen
  546. Social Therapy and Social Therapeutics: Creating Performative Spaces where Life can Flourish​
  547. The Garden as an Inclusive Learning Center: A Zone of Proximal Development​
  548. ​The Instrumental Value of Chaos: Whitehead, John Milton, and Satan in Paradise Lost
  549. The Universe as a Theatrical Event: Co-Creativity, Improvisation, and Polydrama
  550. Embracing the Many: A Mysticism of Multiplicity ​
  551. No Need to Decide: Process Philosophy and the need for Cognitive Flexibility
  552. All Actual Entities Matter to Themselves: The Ontology of Self-Enjoyment in Whitehead's Philosophy​
  553. ​A Taste for the Infinite: Schleiermacher, Process Theology, and the Sublime
  554. The Creative Void: ​Exploring the Metaphysics of Empty Space
  555. Whitehead, Wormholes, and the Longing for Cosmic Connections
  556. ​The Enigmatic Cesario: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of Fluid Gender Identity in Twelfth Night
  557. ​Improvisational Learning: Vygotsky, Whitehead, and the Zone of Becoming
  558. Qualities of a Needed Political Leader: Analytic Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Love Intelligence
  559. Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute  ​
  560. Bertolt Brecht: A Process-Oriented Marxist Poet and Playwright
  561. More than Entertainment: Art's Role in Creating Just Communities 
  562. Aging in a New Key: The Spiritual Benefits of Learning an Instrument in Later Years
  563. ​Hyper-Masculinity and Militarism: Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Process Perspective ​
  564. The Global Process Community: A River with Twelve Tributaries​
  565. From Fragmentation to Flourishing: Uniting the Process Community
  566. Whitehead on Civilizations, Ecological and Otherwise: Philip Clayton
  567. Theatre of the Ordinary: Anton Chekhov & The Quiet Dignity of Unrealized Dreams​
  568. Decisions Made in Rage: Medea's Revenge
  569. Lived Geometry: The Experience of Space in Process Philosophy
  570. The Creative Cosmos Collective
  571. To Whitehead: An Active Verb 
  572. The Puckish Side of God: Toward a Process Theology of Mischief
  573. A Midsummer Night's Entanglement: Shakespeare, Whitehead, and Freud 
  574. The Mind of a Mathematician: A Whiteheadian Approach
  575. Relationality and the Ethic of Loving Attention: Judith Jones and Iris Murdoch
  576. Iago's Motives: Whitehead and Shakespeare on the nature of a Villain
  577. When God becomes a Bromide:​ Process Theology Beyond Platitudes
  578. The Desire to be Relevant and Remarkable
  579. The Receptacle as Creativity: Whitehead and Faber
  580. The Cosmo-Mythic Imagination and Many Worlds: Whitehead and Faber
  581. The Mind of Whitehead: Roland Faber​
  582. Virginia Woolf and Alfred North Whitehead: Veronika Krajíčková ​and the Living Earth​​
  583. Theology in Moments of Time: Tori Owens, Jay McDaniel​
  584. It's the Little Things Sometimes: Nita Gilger
  585. Apotheosis: The Reformation and Divinization of the World in God's Ongoing Life​
  586. Process Philosophy and Shakespeare: A Seminar
  587. ​Sentience all the Way Down? John Pohl's Theology of the Microbe 
  588. Open and Relational Music Makers: Many Genres, One Love​​​
  589. Beneath the Surface: A Process Theology of Jellyfish
  590. The Metaphysics of Pain & Whitehead's Philosophy of Feeling
  591. To My Israeli and Palestinian Friends: Letter from a Process Theologian
  592. ​​​Being a Non-Anxious Presence as a Way of Imitating God
  593. ​​Whitehead's Idea of the Superject: Theory and Applications
  594. The Subject as Superject: Constructive Superjecting as a Way of Life
  595. ​Process Philosophy and the Performing Arts: Points of Connection
  596. The Art of Holding Up a Mirror: What Process Philosophy can learn from Shakespeare
  597. Neologistically Speaking: Whitehead's Creative Use of "Concrescence"
  598. Beyond Consciousness: Understanding Whitehead's Concept of Experience​
  599. Prehensions and the Solidarity of the Universe: Whitehead's Proposal
  600. ​Beyond Process: The Everlasting and Eternal Elements in Whitehead's Philosophy​
  601. From Disgust to Dialogue: Moving Beyond the Emotional Tug of Political Polarization​
  602. Eternal Objects and ​the Dynamics of Process: Exploring Whitehead's Philosophy of Pure Potentialities​
  603. ​Cognition and Concrescence: Process Reflections on the Many Ways of Knowing
  604. ​Mathematics and Emotion: Whitehead’s Categories of Existence and Interdisciplinary Studies
  605. ​​An Open and Relational Church: Eight Ways of Knowing God
  606. Divine Presence: Ten Forms of Inwardness​
  607. The Problem with being Anti-Metaphysical
  608. ​Christians Against Trump and Christians Against Trump: A Quiet, Growing Movement
  609. Some Metaphysical Missteps (to which metaphysical enthusiasts are prone)
  610. ​It is the Mending that Matters: Process Theology, Trauma, and Second Chances
  611. ​The Nothing that's become Something: ​Jonathan Foster
  612. The Falstaffian God: Embracing Life’s Richness
  613. A Quiet Platonism: The Fibonacci Sequence and Whitehead's Concept of Ingression
  614. ​Jesus the Yanker: Free Radicals and Antioxidants
  615. ​​Compassionate Inter-Becoming: The Bodhisattva Vow and Process Theology​
  616. ​Changing your Mind for God's Sake: Oath Taking and Oath Breaking
  617. ​Imagining the Universe as a Cosmic Learning Community
  618. ​To the Church of my Youth: Where did You Go?
  619. Beyond Clarity and Moralizing: A Place for Productive Ambiguity in Theology
  620. Unblaming God: Discovering Divine Tenderness Beyond Tragedy​ ​
  621. Our Ass Doesn't Laugh: Political Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream​​​​
  622. The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream​​​​
  623. Death is a Kind of Gravity: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  624. ​​The Value of Unresolved Tensions: Whitehead's Philosophy and Hamlet's Inner Life​​​
  625. Will Whitehead be Read a Hundred Years from Now? Yes, and here's how.
  626. Mystery and the Sailing Rocks of Death Valley: Nita Gilger
  627. ​Self-death as a Symbol of Radical Freedom: Farhan Shah
  628. Reading Whitehead/Reading Shakespeare
  629. ​We are Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and Political Theatre​
  630. Ten Teachings of Process Zen: Inspired by Dainin Katagiri Roshi
  631. ​The Process is You: The Zen Teachings of Dainin Katagiri Roshi
  632. Finding the Gospel in the Cerulean Sea: Vikki Randall
  633. ​Why I Put Down my God-is-Dead Flag: Jay McDaniel​
  634. ​Oughtism: The Rigid Moralist​
  635. The Post-Human Self: The Microbial Side of Human Life​
  636. ​Napping for a Better World: The Liberating Vision of Tricia Hersey
  637. Onto-Fugitivity, Post-Activism, and Deep Listening: Báyò Akómoláfé
  638. The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down: Báyò Akómoláfé​
  639. Home-Grown Process Theology: Personalized, Accessible, Mindful, and Adventurous
  640. Let Them Run Outside When It's Raining: Ecological Civilization and Nature-Based Play​
  641. Can Generous Listening help Heal the World? 
  642. ​Saving Mozart: Ecological Civilization, Classical Music, AI, and Process Theology
  643. From Amipotence to Ecopotence: De-sentimentalizing Divine Love through Ecology​
  644. The Madness of American Politics: A Prayer for Coping
  645. The Present Moment is Holy Ground: A Process Zen Reflection
  646. ​Religion with Wings: A Process Theology of Imagination
  647. No Ideas but in Things: William Carlos Williams
  648. ​Ambition or Integrity: The Politician's Dilemma
  649. ​Navigating the Crossroads: ​Integrating Christian Process Thought and Zen Buddhism
  650. ​I think the Earth Remembers Me: Hiking as a Spiritual Practice​
  651. Moral Outrage, Resentment, and Self-Righteousness: Buddhism and Forgiveness
  652. Helping Others Flourish: A Process Theology of Butterflies
  653. ​Blow the Door Open: John Donne, Process Theology, and the Divine Lure​
  654. ​The Tiny Philosopher of Wonder: Patricia Adams Farmer​​
  655. A Review of Bruce Epperly's "The God of Tomorrow"​
  656. The Universe as an Artistic Activity: Process Philosophy and Art
  657. Luring Love: Process Theology and the Therapeutic Value of AI Companions
  658. ​The Desire to be Immersed in Beauty: ​Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man​
  659. The Feeling of "If" - Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead​
  660. Process and Music: Twenty Key Ideas
  661. Six Roles of the Artist in an Ecological Civilization ​
  662. Let the Last Word be Love: A Sermon for Pride Month by Vikki Randall
  663. ​Of God and Squash Bugs: Living with ​​an Anthropocentric Bias
  664. ​There's Been a Change of Plans: Non-Compulsive Planning in Process Zen
  665. A Whole Universe of Stories: Patricia Adams Farmer, Sallie McFague, and Teilhard de Chardin
  666. How Does it Feel? A Theology of Vibes
  667. ​The Fallacy of Misplaced Divinity: Confusing Winds of the Spirit with Ideas about God 
  668. ​Return to the River of Belonging: Patricia Adams Farmer
  669. Let Love be the Judge: Oord Responds to Charges Pending Trial for Queer Affirmation​
  670. You Should be Dancing: Process Theology and the Bee Gees​​
  671. The Basis of Relational Mysticism: ​Simple Physical Feelings​​
  672. A Yearning for Intensity: Whitehead's Notion of Contrasts​
  673. Is the Smartphone more Useful than God? Process Theology in a Digital Age​​​
  674. The Sanctuary of Openness: Rebecca Ann Parker on Faith without Grasping
  675. ​​Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. Zen Meditation and Process Theology
  676. ​​Changing without Moving: The Metaphysics of Actual Entities
  677. ​​All Creatures Great and Small: Relations with Animals as Relations with God​​
  678. I am Curious: Process Philosophy and ​the Polymath Sensibility
  679. ​Process & Discernment: Pulled in Many Directions, Listening for Initial Aims from God
  680. Do Open and Relational Thinkers Talk about God Too Much? Yes, sometimes.
  681. ​Inclusive Community: Phil Ochs, Process Theology, Church of the Village
  682. Singing Old Hymns in New Ways: Jay McDaniel and Al Gephart​
  683. Chinese and American Farming Friends: Wendell Berry and Yan Shi ​​
  684. Saving God: Tripp Fuller's Christology and Christ the Bodhisattva​
  685. If God is Omnipresent, ​Why Go to Church? Notes on an essay by Casey T. Sigmon
  686. The Rapture of Being Alive: Two Hymns by Sheri Kling
  687. The Grace of the Empty Tomb: Notes on a sermon by Nichole Torbitzsky
  688. ​The Craziness of Christian Love: Notes on a Prayer by Vikki Randall
  689. Embracing the Moment: A Buddhist Perspective on Open and Relational Theology ​
  690. ​Wisdom and Mindfulness: Embracing Open and Relational Theology Without Succumbing to Ten Temptations​
  691. Wonder and Novelty: A Wild, Grassroots Version of Process-Relational Thought​
  692. Climate Change and the Liberal Arts: Music and Printmaking for the Earth Community
  693. ​Digital Humility: From Social Media Exhibitionism to Community-Centered Connectivity
  694. The Last Flight of a Disappointed Mosquito: ​Divine Love in Small Things​
  695. ​The Red Wheelbarrow: ​The Place of Particulars in Metamodern Religion​
  696. Leaning into Withness: A Whiteheadian Reflection on a Sermon by Jonathan Foster
  697. Flourishing: An Open and Relational Pneumatology
  698. ​A Sermon is Co-Created: Listening to a Sermon with an Open and Relational Heart​
  699. Cosmic Awakenings: Andrew Davis on a Universe of Value​
  700. Quiet Unpretentious Love: Beyond Envy, Comparisons, and Social Media Compulsions
  701. Eclipse Theology: Ten Questions for Reflection
  702. ​God after Deconstruction for Christians influenced by Buddhism​
  703. Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian God: Multiple Ultimates​
  704. Emptiness and Abba: Zen (Metamodern) Christianity​
  705. Can God Laugh? Ten Forms of Divine Laughter
  706. Planting Seeds of Hope: A "Process Theology" Coloring Book​
  707. Love, Betrayal, and Forgiveness: A Process Theory of the Atonement 
  708. ​The Jewish Jesus & Jewish Process Theology: An Introduction​
  709. Job and Whitehead: Making Space for Vagueness and Confusion
  710. Christian Process Theology and Metamodernism: Springboards for Conversation
  711. ​There is no Divine Plan and It Should Have been Otherwise: 20 Days in Mariupol
  712. Vastness and Beauty: Sixteen Reasons to Love the Night Sky
  713. Dogs, Gardens, Donkeys, and Children: An Organic Family ​for the Common Good
  714. Praying to Jesus: A Metamodern Possibility?
  715. ​Non-Mysticism: ​Letting the World Be Itself ​
  716. Joyful Spirits of the Universe: Everything is Made of Emotions
  717. Holy Now, The Music Plays On: The Lasting Legacy of Len Delony
  718. Relational Power in Theory and Practice: Mesle and McDaniel
  719. Three Dimensions of Relational Power: Mesle and McDaniel​
  720. The Shadow of Your Wings: A God Who Migrates
  721. Cemetery Care: A Process Practice​
  722. The Coming Solar Eclipse: An Astronomical Altar Call
  723. ​Elegy for my Mother's Mind: Laura Van Prooyen
  724. ​Backward Miracles: Reclaiming the Single Loaf of Bread
  725. ​The Potato as Mystic: So Much Happens Underground
  726. Fidelity to the Lure of Divine Creativity: Jared Morningstar
  727. ​​​​​"I'm Done with It." Ten Options to the Modern World​​​
  728. Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Loving: ​Process Philosophy and the Byronic Hero​
  729. The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Spirituality for Nones
  730. Aliens, UFOs, and Cosmic Religion: ​Process Philosophy and a New Religious Consciousness​​
  731. Open and Relational Atheism: An Affirmation of Life​​
  732. The Gambia Academy: Education for "Ecological Civilization" in Post-Colonial Africa​​
  733. Differences Make the Whole Richer: Interreligious Dialogue as the Enjoyment of Lived Beauty​
  734. East-West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization: Highlights from International Webinar​​​​​
  735. ​Process Zen: Being Present in the Moment​
  736. From the Ground Up: Teaching Process Thought to Children through Home Gardening
  737. Taylor Swift and Process Philosophy: ​A Submission to the Taylor Swift Swiftposium
  738. Imagining a Plant as a Huge Brain: Plant Metaphysics
  739. ​Starting a John Cobb Home Garden: Healing Action for a World in Need
  740. The Real Culture War: Authoritatives and Nurturers​​​
  741. A Stick is a Stick: The Metaphysics of Zen Christianity​
  742. John Cobb: My Frugal, Visionary Mentor
  743. You Sure Say "Ought" a Lot! ​The Problem of Excessive Preachiness​
  744. The Religion of Tomorrow: Ilia Delio and Process Theology​
  745. Blessing the Water Snakes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  746. ​We Move with the Music: Living with Dementia​
  747. Reimagining Dementia with help from Process Theology
  748. The Open and Relational Voice: Maria Callas and Process Theology​
  749. Respect for Elders and Respect for the Earth - Process Confucianism
  750. ​The Significance of Being Polite in Daily Life: Process and Confucianism​
  751. ​Moral Anaesthesia: Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
  752. ​Whitehead on God: Six Passages from Process and Reality
  753. Octavia Butler and Alfred North Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection​
  754. Iain McGilchrist and the Widening of Attention: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  755. ​The Joy of Having Curious Students: A Lesson from Confucius
  756. Zen, Novelty, and Suchness: Ultimate Reality in a Cup of Tea
  757. Three Faces of Ecological Civilization
  758. Is Negative Five an Eternal Object? A Young Girl in Rural China 
  759. ​Purpose in Human Life: L. Charles Birch
  760. ​Process Thought: An Introduction by Ian Barbour​
  761. ​​Reinventing Yourself: Process Theology and David Bowie
  762. ​Lighting Candles as Prayer: Lifting Things Up to the Light of the Universe​
  763. ​Finding Your Inner Banjo: A Process Theology for Pluckers
  764. ​Becoming a Whole Person
  765. ​God as Interpoint: Symbolic Logic as a Tool for Process Theology
  766. ​Teilhard's Fire: Donald Viney
  767. Bereaved Parents: Rebuilding Lives After a Suicide Loss (Farhan Shah)
  768. Knowing without Words: Whitehead and the Apophatic
  769. Faith, Hope, and Laughter: A Note on Process and Virtue
  770. ​Religion in the Making: Whitehead on Religion
  771. Religion and Science: Alfred North Whitehead​​​​​​​
  772. Mathematics and the Good: Alfred North Whitehead​
  773. Process Theology & Relations with Loved Ones after they Die​​​
  774. Healing Reactive Behavior: A Process and Jungian Approach: Sheri Kling
  775. Does P equal NP? A Mathematical Love Poem by Haipeng Guo
  776. Process and Puddings: A Culinary Approach to Process Philosophy​
  777. Yes, I can stay a while: Nita Gilger on Abiding
  778. Walking in the Air: Patricia Adams Farmer, Jay McDaniel​
  779. The Sentience of Lava: Katy Didden, Process Theology​
  780. Hiding in a Comfort Bubble: Turning Away from Suffering as a Kind of Evil​
  781. ​Making Peace with Impermanence: Whitehead and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
  782. ​It Wasn't Meant to Be: God & the Insistent Particularities of the World
  783. ​AN ​Whitehead and Louis Zukofsky on the Meaning of "A"
  784. ​Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the Epidemic of Self-Censorship​
  785. Trusting in Nurturant Light: Worship in a Process Context
  786. ​Ecological Civilization on My Balcony: Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, and Junfeng Wang on China's Future
  787. After Your Death: We Still Talk
  788. Having Faith When Life Does Not Make Sense: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  789. ​Process Buddhism: Learning from ​Kazi Adi Shakti​
  790. From Consumerism to Ecological Civilization
  791. ​Islam and Process Thought, challenges and possibilities: Farhan Shah​
  792. How would you advise Alex? A Journey in Open and Relational Theology
  793. ​Affirming Divine Omnipotence in Islamic Process Theology
  794. Process Theology through Equations: For the Mathematically Minded​
  795. The Consolation of Stars: Their Beauty, Their Independence​
  796. ​Process Theology and the Rapture: The Passing of the Love on Earth into Heaven
  797. "The Not-Yet God" by Ilia Delio: A Reflection and Review
  798. Theology as Curiosity: Rapturous Rewards of Serendipitous Discovery
  799. Living in Love's Universe: Rumi and Process Theology​​
  800. Let's Love Each Other: Haleh Liza Gafori reciting Rumi ​
  801. ​Process Theology and Encounters of the Third Kind: David Griffin, D.W. Pasulka
  802. ​Rabbi Bradley Artson on the Israel-Hamas Conflict
  803. ​Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From Islamic fundamentalism through Atheism to Christianity
  804. Shamanism: Life ​as a Cosmic Principle
  805. From the Place Where We Are Right Flowers will never Grow in the Spring: ​Yehuda Amichai
  806. ​The Fuller-Oord Project: Claiming Doubt as Part of Faith
  807. The Unmoved Mover of Process Theology: Changing without Moving​
  808. ​Have a Good Day and Get a Good Night's Sleep: Circadian Theology in Process Perspective
  809. ​An Eccentric View of the Normal: Science Fiction, Philip K. Dick, and Whitehead
  810. After the Battle, Many New Ghosts: Du Fu's "Facing Snow"
  811. ​After Deconstruction: The Process Theology of Artist/Theologian Steve Thomason
  812. Love and Social Justice: Daniel Day Williams
  813. Alien Minds, Artificial Intelligence, Cosmotheology: Andrew Davis and Martin Rees​
  814. grieving is the longing for home: Jonathan Foster's indigo 
  815. The Courage of Mushrooms: Nita Gilger
  816. ​The Soul-Expanding Melodies of Sadness: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  817. Music as Experiential Metaphysics: Schopenhauer, Whitehead, and Mahler
  818. Not a Hug but a Bow: A Softer more Buddhist ​Side of Whitehead
  819. Radical, Non-Binary Love: Understanding the Yearnings of My Enemies
  820. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream: Pete Seeger, John Cobb, Walter Brueggemann​
  821. Beyond Petty Factionalism: The Federalist Papers and ​Originalism in Process
  822. Supporting Pockets of Hope: A Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation
  823. Ideology, Terror and the Freedom to Begin Anew: Thinking with Hannah Arendt
  824. ​Process and Plankton: Eco-Theology and Microbial Life
  825. ​The Federalist Papers: A Process Reflection
  826. The Great Sadness of God: Patricia Adams Farmer
  827. ​All People of Goodwill Must Rally: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
  828. ​​Revisioning God and the Self with help from Buddhism: Jay McDaniel
  829. Nexūs and the Logic of Relations: John Lango
  830. Creation out of Nothing? Maybe so, maybe not, what's most important is love.​
  831. Process and Populism: The Humbling of Liberal Democracy
  832. Sourdough Spirituality: Patricia Adams Farmer
  833. Process Theology and Crows: Animals as Elders and Totems
  834. ​A More Expansive Truth: Apostasy as a Spiritual Practice
  835. ​Beyond Rank and Status: William Shakespeare and Whitehead's Image of God 
  836. Withness of the Body: Process Theology and Bodily Knowing
  837. ​Beyond the Management Mentality: Whitehead's Idea of 'Importance'
  838. ​Beings are Becomings: Introducing Process Philosophy ​with help from Gerunds​
  839. God as the Poet of the World: Ten Meanings
  840. The Migration of Religion to Popular Culture: Taylor Swift and Process Theology
  841. Curiouser and Curiouser: Whitehead, Lewis Carroll, and Alice in Wonderland
  842. The End of Materialism and the Civilizational Crisis: Maria-Teresa Teixeira in Munich
  843. ​Seven Process Poets in China: Ecology, Creativity, Freedom of Self-Expression
  844. The Sublime and the Mundane: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  845. The Constancy of Love: Shakespeare and Charles Hartshorne
  846. The Extensive Continuum: Michael Halewood in Munich
  847. Process Poets in China: Poetry, Ecology, Creativity
  848. Camping with Kierkegaard: Hot Chocolate with J. Aaron Simmons
  849. Andrew Davis in Munich: On the Goodness of Whitehead's God​
  850. Reading Poetry in a Whiteheadian Way: Christopher Hasty's Lecture in Munich
  851. The Lure of Margaritaville: A Whiteheadian Appreciation
  852. Chinese Youth Culture: I'm Growing Vegetables on my Balcony
  853. Whitehead's Infinitely Erotic God: The Love Poetry of Richie Hofmann
  854. Omega Now: The Eschatological Resurrection of all Things within the Divine Life
  855. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From - Book Review
  856. Places in the Heart: Final Scene and the Christian Gospel
  857. Dead Man Walking: Confession and Creative Transformation​
  858. Divine Inscrutability: Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" 
  859. Atonement: A Process Perspective
  860. The Metaphysics of Erasure Poetry: Tracy K. Smith's Declaration of Independence​
  861. The Dao of Civilization: ​A Letter to China - Freya Mathews
  862. The Process Poetry Movement in China
  863. Process Moral Education: Bangxiu Xie, Jay McDaniel, Bob Mesle​
  864. Joy Harjo and the Dream of the Earth
  865. Toward a Theology of Enzymes: God, Evolution, and Collaborative Design
  866. The Spiritual Side of Gardening: ​A Process Approach​
  867. Sex, Eros, and Love: Whiteheadian Reflections
  868. Beauty in the Darkness: Patricia Adams Farmer
  869. ​Apocalypse Coral​: God, Coral Reefs, Intrinsic Value, ​and Planet Loyalty​
  870. Strong, Independent, Assertive, Funny, and Feminist: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
  871. ​Is God in control? Reverend Barkley Thompson
  872. Ambition, Greed, Deception, and Revenge: Feudal Loyalty in American Society
  873. As John Sees It: Process Philosophy, AA, and Recovery
  874. John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
  875. O Second Moon of Jupiter, We, Too, are Made of Water: Sending Poetry to Europa
  876. ​Sonnet 73: Shakespeare and Whitehead on Love and Impermanence
  877. Welcoming our Extraterrestrial Neighbors: Process Philosophy and UFOs
  878. The Most Famous Cat in English Literature: ​Christopher Smart's Jeoffry
  879. Befriending the Planets: Ten Gifts from our Planetary Neighbors
  880. The Green Jesus is Breaking Ground: Process Christo-Poetics ​​
  881. Infinitely Tender, Infinitely Wild: Twenty-One Divine Infinities
  882. And Beauty for All: Lubarsky, Goddard, and Farmer​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

20 Key Ideas


Practicing the Process Way

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Process Worldview:
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Ecological Civilization​

the social ideal of process philosophy


​Ecological civilizatons are the world's best hope.  We humans live within, not apart form, a larger web of life filled with value and beauty.  Our responsibility is to care for the larger whole and for one another.  The building blocks of ecological civilizations are local communities that are creative, compassionate, participatory, inclusive, diverse, humane to animals, good for the earth,  and spiritually satisfying -- with no one left behind.   The social aim of process thinkers is to help build these kinds of communities.  Here are some links to get started:
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  1. Ecotheology in Theory and Practice (Jay McDaniel)​
  2. The Radical Vision of Ecological Civilization (Andrew Schwartz)
  3. Five Foundations for an Ecological Civilization (John Cobb)
  4. Ten Ideas for Saving the Planet (John Cobb)
  5. Economic Justice and Process Philosophy (John Cobb and others)
  6. China's Ecological Civilization (Zhihe Wang)
  7. ​A Call to Deeper Places: The Owl as My Teacher (Nita Gilger)
  8. Goodbye, Earth: The Failure of "Adults" to Care for the Planet (Patricia Adams Farmer)

Beauty in Process Theology

God in Process Theology
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 Four Aims of the Process Movement
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Process and Spirituality


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​The Process Movement
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Many people from around the world visit the site.  They include viewers from Venezuela, Korea, Kenya, Canada, Germany, Phillipines, Mexico, Botswana, Sweden, Turkey, England, Brazil, and the United States.  And a few from mainland China, too, where the process movement is growing rapidly.

Some visitors are affiliated with one or another of the world's religions and some are spiritual independents.  All are welcome.

The contributors to Open Horizons include artists, photographers, musicians, poets, clerks, accountants, farmers, theologians, and philosophers.  They share many of the ideas and aims offered above, as understood in their own ways, and are committed to the practices, especially that of living with respect and care for life. 

Open Horizons is part of the larger process community.  If you would like to be part of the process community, help with its work, and contribute your own ideas,  here are some ways:

Join the Claremont Process Nexus.
Join the Cobb Institute: A Community of Process and Practice.
Join Process and Faith: A Multi-Religious Network.
Support the The Center for Process Studies.
​Support the Institute for Ecological Civilization.


​new to the process ​world?

here are some pages that will help you get started


  1. ​Relationships as the Spiritual Web of our Lives (Frederic Brussat)​
  2. Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thinking (Jay McDaniel)
  3. A Whole Universe of Stories (Patricia Adams Farmer)
  4. Beauty as a Spiritual Home (Patricia Adams Farmer)
  5. The Numinosity of Rocks (Patricia Adams Farmer)
  6. Whitehead, Jung, and Psychospiritual Wholeness (Sheri Kling)
  7. Whitehead Video Series (video series for people serious about reading Process and Reality)
  8. The Constellation of Process Theology (Bradley Artson)
  9. ​God Almighty?  No Way!  (Bradley Artson)
  10. Can a Muslim be a Panentheist? (Farhan Shah)
  11. Whitehead's Theory of Value (John Cobb)
  12. Emotional Intelligence and Embodied Wisdom: The  Spiritual Side of Process Thinking 
  13. The New Process Theology: International, Multireleligious, Practical, Theopoetic (Jay McDaniel)
  14. Building Ecological Civilizations: The Practical Side of Process Thinking
  15. China's Ecological Civilization: Our Common Great Opportunity (Zhihe Wang)
  16. ​A Biologist Looks at Process Thought (Charles Birch)
  17. Comparing Whitehead and Chinese Thought  (Jay McDaniel)​​

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interfaith cooperation

growing in religious literacy and
engaging in interfaith cooperation
as an open and relational practice
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​We encourage growing in religious literacy as a beginning, but not an end, to what is most important: interfaith cooperation. 
We in the "process" world believe that friendships with people of other faiths, combined with joint projects aimed at helping bring about just, sustainable, and joyful communities, are what is most important. 

Still, a degree of religious literacy is very important and a worthy aim.  Very few people in the world are religiously literate in a complete sense; the very process of growing in such literacy is a lifelong endeavor and, for some, a spiritual practice.  Let this page help you take first steps.​
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Click on the links to the left and you will be taken to the best resource you can find for understanding the world's religions today: On Common Ground from The Pluralism Project at Harvard University.  These are the multiple "faiths" which can be an important part of a relational culture and community.  Process philosophy offers a way of appreciating the best in each tradition and articulating the traditions from the inside, by those who practice them.


​an interfaith spiritual alphabet 

​For us "spirituality" is embodied cognition and emotional intelligence in everyday life.  In the wheel of spirituality below, you will find thirty seven qualities of heart and mind that are part of spirituality.  We borrow the list from one of our partner organizations: Spirituality and Practice.  In the essays on the left, Patricia Adams Farmer and Jay McDaniel offer interpretations of some of the letters.
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Guidelines for Interfaith Cooperation


interfaith advice column
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