​Open Horizons


​​exploring a process-relational
way of thinking and living in the world
​​​
​curated by Jay McDaniel

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​For an introduction to the process worldview, see:
​

Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thought 

Eight Categories of Existence Plus Creativity and God
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​The Universe in a Grain of Sand

​Prehension: What Holds the World Together

​Panentheism: The Universe as God's Body

Whitehead's Theory of Value

Four Modes of Time: Measured, Lived, Unending, and Eternal

What is the Mind? A Process Proposal


Recent Posts

​​updated April 10, 2026
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  1. ​Heroes, Monsters, and Faith: Video Games and the Moral Imagination of Christian Soldiers
  2. Hosts to Possibility:​ The Creative Life in Process Perspective
  3. Process Philosophy and Mystical Atheism
  4. Felt, Not Measured: A Whiteheadian Response to Algorithmic Culture​​
  5. God and the Primacy of the Felt: ​An Open and Relational Response to Algorithmic Culture
  6. ​What is the Mind? A Process Proposal
  7. ​Omnisubjectivity: Feeling God's Friendship in the Here-and-Now
  8. Being Present to the World Differently: A Buddhist Path 
  9. ​Jay McDaniel's Introduction to Process Thought
  10. ​Winging It: God and Creativity in an ​Improvisational Universe ​
  11. Compassionate Intelligence: A Buddhist Vision for AI
  12. Process Theology & the Musical Brain: Every Brain Needs Music
  13. Process Philosophy and the Emergent Mind
  14. The Politics of Love: Feeling, Authority, and Public Life in Mainland China
  15. Is Solidity an Illusion? A Note on Whitehead and Quantum Fields
  16. Singing in the Shower: An Open and Relational Theology of Everyday Flourishing ​
  17. 8 Billion Artists: The Arts as a Vital Component of Human Health
  18. Four Modes of Time: Measured, Lived, Unending, and Eternal
  19. After Religion, After Atheism: ​What Comes Next?
  20. World O World: Jacob Collier
  21. From Page to Voice: The Rise of Sonic Knowing in a Post-Literate World
  22. ​Philomena Cunk vs. the Professors
  23. ​Music of Earth and Space: ​Milton Mermikides
  24. ​Beyond Symbolic Liberalism: Co-Creating the Common Good with Sari Hanafi
  25. ​Flowing Beneath the Surface: Sociologists Look at "Social Love" in Daily Life
  26. Sociology and the Concept of Social Love in Daily Life
  27. The Galilean Vision and the Gaudiness of Power
  28. ​The Future of the Process Movement​
  29. Process Philosophy and the Post-Liberal Turn
  30. Toward a Process Post-Liberalism: ​A Civic Creed in Twelve Theses
  31. The Magic in Nature: Darwin, Dickinson, and Whitehead
  32. ​Flourishing Together: Aristotle, Oord, and the Common Good
  33. ​Tending the Wounds: Trauma Studies and the God Who Suffers With Us
  34. From Un-Seeing to Seeing: A Reflection on Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s Theology of Visibility
  35. Between Pollyanna and Goth: An Open and Relational Christian Vision
  36. Chaucer and Whitehead: Plurality, Novelty, and Lived Experience
  37. Fallacy of the Perfect Dictionary: Ideas about Ideas
  38. The God Who Throws Nothing Away: A Gatherer of Fragments and a Love Recycler
  39. Thomas Oord’s Systematic Theology of Love (Vol. I): Springboards for Reflection
  40. Seventeen Reasons to Be Liberal: Liberalism as a Way of Life
  41. The Slow Death of Long-Form, Immersive Reading
  42. ​Acting as Becoming: Stanislavski and Whitehead
  43. Illiberalism: A Movement Shaping Our Time
  44. Does Whitehead offer a Metaphysical Foundation for Generous Conservatism in the 21st Century?
  45. Shakespeare, Whitehead, and Quantum Mechanics: Ontologies of the Possible
  46. Love of Home and World Loyalty: Oikophilia and Cosmopolitanism
  47. ​Augustine and Whitehead: Six Spiritual Affinities
  48. Ever Ancient, Ever New: An Augustinian Process Theology
  49. ​We Need Kant Now: Life Lessons from Immanuel Kant
  50. ​Lamenting Injustice: Vikki Randall, Soong-Chan Rah
  51. ​Against "Little Caesars" - Why Cicero Matters Today
  52. ​Furious Minds: Intellectual Sources for the MAGA New Right - Laura K. Field
  53. ​Love is a Peculiarly Human Calling: ​Sollereder and Oord
  54. We Need Plato Now: Five Reasons​
  55. ​Ultra-Sensory Experience: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of the Senses
  56. Whitehead at BNBU: Whole-Person Education in a Chinese Liberal Arts University
  57. Beyond Systems and Patterns: The Subjective Immediacy of Private Feelings
  58. Organic Vitality and Daoist Flow: Whitehead, Wordsworth, and Qi
  59. ​​Philosophy May Not Neglect the Fairies: A Role for Imaginal Beings in a Reenchanted World
  60. ​Intercultural Listening: Whitehead and a Liberal Arts Orchestra in China
  61. ​Qi and its Circulation ​from the Perspective of Process Philosophy: Zhenbao Jin
  62. ​Wild Geese Rising: Gayle Hansen Browne on Moment-by-Moment Contemplative Action
  63. ​​Fidelity to Felt Contrasts: Sublunary Theology
  64. The Courage of Presence: Playing Horatio in Hamlet
  65. Emotional? Yes. Tragedy? No. Mary Fridley on Reimaging Dementia
  66. Music, Memory, and Desire: Proust, Augustine, and Whitehead
  67. ​​Prehension: John Cobb and Jay McDaniel
  68. Violent Frenzies and Candlelight Vigils: Whitehead and Crowd Psychology
  69. Whitehead and Monteverdi
  70. Trying Out New Things as a way of Being Faithful to God as Love ​
  71. Beyond Right-Wing Populism and Secular Liberalism
  72. Politics and the Lust for Domination: Augustine and Whitehead
  73. Process Philosophy and the Call for a New Paradigm of Thought: Jirong Chen
  74. Christians for Greenland
  75. Murder in Minnesota: Bob Mesle
  76. We Are Kalaallit Nunaat: The Greenland Way​
  77. Seeing Life Differently: The Greenland Way
  78. Enchanted Space: A Process Philosophy of Opera
  79. God as Kindness
  80. ​Maria Callas: The Human Voice as a Site ​of Intensified Feeling​
  81. The Joy of Making Things: A Process Philosophy of Design
  82. The Whitehead School ​of Creativity and Design: Grounding Design in Experience
  83. Foundations: Glossary of Terms in John Cobb's Whitehead Wordbook
  84. Dante, Shakespeare, and Whitehead: Translunar and Sublunar Modes of Thought
  85. Cor ad Cor Loquitur: Heart Speaking to Heart in a Relational Universe ​
  86. With an Intimacy that it will take All Eternity to Explore: The Sermons of John Farthing
  87. Cosmic Consciousness in a Process Cosmology: John H. Buchanan
  88. Beyond Boundaries: Mysticism, Process Thought, and the Limits of Religious Difference
  89. Thinking Sideways: The Joys of Lateral Thinking
  90. Openness to Novelty: Thinking Sideways in a Universe of Becoming
  91. Romulus and Remus: The Haunting Effects of Violent Beginnings
  92. AI Bodhisattvas: Buddhism, Simulated Selves, and Process Metaphysics
  93. Ubiquitous Subjectivity: A Whiteheadian Philosophy of Mind
  94. The Substrate Independence of Embodied Minds: Levin and Whitehead
  95. ​Eleusinian Mysteries: A Process Perspective
  96. ​Shared Ritual Spaces and the Need for Mystery
  97. Umvelten: The Metaphysics of Animal Subjectivity 
  98. Emotional Sentience: A Talk by Katherine Peil Kauffman
  99. Biosemiotics: A Talk by Kalevi Kull
  100. Emotional Sentience as a Flowing of the Dao: Katherine Peil Kauffman
  101. All Creatures Seek Meaning: Whitehead and Biosemiotics
  102. Imagination: Coleridge, Barfield, and Whitehead
  103. Ecological Civilization in China as an Aspirational ideal: Yang Lidi​
  104. God and the Godhead: The Metaphysical Ground of the All-Loving God
  105. Seeking a Deeper Ground: God and the Godhead in Whitehead's Philosophy
  106. Prehension and Psychedelics: John H Buchanan
  107. Metaphysical Difficulties in Process Theology: W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
  108. ​Process Mysticism by Daniel A. Dombrowski: Book Review by Adis Duderija
  109. ​A Deeper Sense of Belonging: Process Philosophy and Qigong
  110. Qi and Qigong: Breath, Movement, Creativity
  111. Feeling, Meaning, and Art: Susanne K. Langer
  112. The Principles of Creation in Art: Susanne K. Langer
  113. What is Consciousness? David Ray Griffin and Alfred North Whitehead
  114. Whitehead's Misconception of 'Substance' in Aristotle: James W. Felt, S.J.
  115. Psychic Energy: David Ray Griffin
  116. ​The Momentary Self: On Letting Go and Becoming Again
  117. The Universe in a Grain of Sand: Whitehead's Relational Ontology
  118. ​The Impermanence of Permanence: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  119. ​Novel Togetherness: Whitehead's Non-Numerical Notion of Oneness
  120. ​When Empathy Becomes Clingy: Process and Gloopiness
  121. Breakdancing in Uganda: A Process Appreciation
  122. "Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age" - Process Philosophy meets Lois Holzman
  123. Countering Hate Speech Through Video Art: A UNESCO-Awarded Initiative ​​
  124. The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Celebration of Plants
  125. Process Philosophy and the Twelve-Step Program: John Buchanan 
  126. Harmony and Intensity: The Sounds of the Chinese Guzheng
  127. "All in God" and "God in All" - A Whiteheadian Response to Thomas Oord​​
  128. Rhythm & Balance, Trust & Confidence: Finding God in Hippotherapy​​
  129. Does God Care What We Eat? Tim Miller
  130. Some Psychological Implications of Process Philosophy: John H. Buchanan
  131. ​People who love Plants: Horticultural Therapy in a Hurried World
  132. Psychedelics and Panentheism: A Whiteheadian Response to Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
  133. A Process-Relational Look at the Nicene Creed: Paul S. Nancarrow
  134. Art, Nature, and Science: The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
  135. Ghosts, Trolls & Hidden People: Enchanted Naturalism
  136. Leaving the Leaves: A Simple Way to Care for Life
  137. An Ontology of Gardening: Process Philosophy and Margaret Roach
  138. The Grammar of Animacy: Braiding Sweetgrass and Process Philosophy
  139. Topiary Art and Philosophy: Michael Gibson
  140. ​Send in the Clowns: The Transmutation of Loss into Tragic Beauty
  141. ​Trees Can Save the World, and We Can Help Them: Basil Camu
  142. Actual Entities as Adverbs: AN Whitehead
  143. Whitehead on Science, Religion, ​and the Phases of Experience
  144. An Ecological Civilization in Your Own Backyard: Douglas Tallamy​
  145. Play, Perform, Learn, Grow: Dan Friedman
  146. ​God both Hidden and Unhidden: Tim Miller, Jay McDaniel
  147. ​The Sound of Divine Hunger: A Note on Messiaen’s Le Banquet Céleste 
  148. ​Roland Faber on Transreligious Dialogue: Adis Duderija
  149. ​Cultural Capital and the Need to Feel Relevant: ​Bourdieu meets Whitehead
  150. ​Chinese Tradition, Process Thought, and Ecological Civilization: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
  151. ​Being Watched: ​Foucault, Whitehead, and the Ontology of Attention
  152. Reclaiming Interiority and Creativity in a Panoptical World: Foucault and Whitehead
  153. ​Performance Activism and Social Transformation: Dan Friedman
  154. An Olfactory Way of Knowing​: A Whiteheadian Approach to Smell
  155. ​That Smelly Feeling: Whitehead on the Sense of Smell
  156. ​Shaken into New Becoming: ​Whitehead, Empathy, and the Trembling Self
  157. Waste-Not Philosophy: A Spiritual Alternative to Throwaway Culture
  158. Thinking Sideways: Reflections on Constructive Weirdness
  159. Great Books, Gardening, and Community: A Quiet Revolution 
  160. Sitting Around a Table Talking about Deep Questions inspired by an Excellent Book
  161. ​A Different Kind of Permanence: Whitehead's Philosophy as a Footnote to Plato
  162. Adventures in Clumsiness: ​In Appreciation of Awkward Beauty
  163. ​The Green Leaf and the Round Ball: Whitehead's Reformed Subjectivist Principle
  164. Empathy, Coexistence, & Rebirth: Contemporary Chinese Eco-Art
  165. The Beauty of Huayao: Meijun Fan 
  166. Empathy for Plants and People: Shen Shaomin’s Bonsai series
  167. God and Dr. Faustus: An Open and Relational Understanding of the Devil
  168. Scraps of Light: Finding God in the Adorable
  169. ​No Inert Matter: A Puff of Existence in Far-Off Empty Space
  170. Does God love Puffs of Energy in Far-Off Empty Space?
  171. ​​Whitehead on Biblical Sayings: Propositions as Lures for Feeling ​
  172. ​Hamlet and Whitehead: Propositions as Lures for Feeling ​
  173. ​​Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute
  174. ​​Poetry and Patience: God as the Poet of the World
  175. ​Expanding Our Sense of the Possible: David Ray Griffin on Levitation
  176. Whitehead Nerd Quiz
  177. ​We are All Made of the Same Water: Bob Mesle
  178. Interior Freedom: Becoming Unstuck
  179. Does the Universe Enjoy Itself? Whitehead's Aesthetics of Self-Enjoyment
  180. I am Strong - Jesus is Woke - Cursed are the Meek
  181. Non-Neural Minds: A Whiteheadian Imagination
  182. ​​Concrescence Beyond the Brain: Process Philosophy and Non-Neural Intelligences
  183. ​Who Needs a Brain? An Open and Relational Theology of Non-Neural Minds
  184. ​Plasma, Planets, and Possibility: ​Imagining Intelligence through Whitehead's Categoreal Obligations
  185. Electromagnetic Theology: Energy Fields and the Heart's Intuitive Guidance
  186. Electromagnetism: ​Laws of Nature, Cosmic Epochs, Subjectivity and Wavelengths
  187. Beyond the Unmoved Mover: Adis Duderija
  188. Everyday Provocateurs: Cynics for the Common Good
  189. Stillness and Becoming: A Process Appreciation of Hesychastic Prayer
  190. Wanting to be a Mystic: Jay McDaniel
  191. Penumbral Theology: God as a Field of Love ​
  192. Kelly Chase on UFO Phenomena: Ten Points of Contact with Process Philosophy
  193. As the Fox Chases the Rabbit, Whose Side is God On?
  194. Process Thought Helps us Live a More Abundant Life: Reflections on the 18th Process Summer Academy​
  195. Is Whitehead's Critique of ​Scientific Materialism Outdated?
  196. Whitehead's Idea of Beauty: An Invitation to Further Thought
  197. ​Tragic Beauty in Whitehead: The Dream of Youth, the Harvest of Tragedy
  198. Deeper than Joy or Sorrow: Whitehead on the Task of Theology
  199. TheoSpark: A Theological Board Game
  200. Strength of Beauty, Suffering, & ​the Merits of Imperfection: AN Whitehead
  201. Hybrid Physical Feelings: Whitehead's Groundbreaking Idea ​and Ten Implications
  202. Why not a Kinder, Gentler World? ​Whitehead's Notion of "Persuasive Agencies"
  203. ​The Metaphysics of Empathy: Vector Feelings in Whitehead's Pan-Empathic Universe
  204. Why not a Kinder, Gentler World? ​ Whitehead's Notion of "Persuasive Agencies" 
  205. The Causal Influence the Future: Anticipatory Feelings and Precognition
  206. Reasons Why I Value Process Thought: Adis Duderija
  207. Science, Creativity, and Beauty: Whitehead and Wordsworth
  208. A Gracious, Simple Mode of Life - Whitehead on the Ethical Ideal of Inclusive Love ​
  209. When Your Neighbor ​is a Christian Nationalist: A Process-Relational Approach
  210. Divine Companionship as Deep Listening: Tracy Tucker’s Can We Talk About Death?
  211. Literary Modernism: A Mood and a Movement
  212. A Feeling of Cleanliness  Whitehead on the Subjective Side of Perceived Truth
  213. ​​​Apophatic and Cataphatic Pastoral Care: An Open and Relational Approach
  214. Where is God in Pastoral Care? An Open and Relational Approach​
  215. The Gift of Perplexity: Whitehead on Plato
  216. Improvising the World Anew: Vygotsky, Whitehead, and the Spirit of Performance Activism
  217. Perplexity as Sacred Ground: Apophatic Pastoral Care
  218. Listening to the Hopes of Conservatives and Liberals
  219. God both Hidden and Unhidden: A Process Response to Tim Miller
  220. What the World Needs Now: World Loyalty & Local Love
  221. Language as a Living Practice: Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Social Therapeutics
  222. Singing with Friends: Open and Relational Musicking
  223. To Music Is to Co-Become: ​A Process-Relational Understanding of Musicking ​
  224. ​Co-Created Relational Energy: Music as Healing Balm
  225. Spiritual Warfare: The Power of Malevolent Energies
  226. ​Whitehead’s Satan: A Permanent Track in the Abyss
  227. Abide with me, Fast Falls the Eventide: Whitehead on the Metaphysics of a Hymn
  228. Two Kinds of Process Thinkers: Bohemians and System-Builders ​
  229. Little Boy Politicians: Whitehead, Jung, and the Juvenile Soul
  230. ​Civilizational Adventures: Whitehead, the Joy of Novelty, ​and a Mission to Mars
  231. ​Finding God in the Memory Café: No One Outside the Circle
  232. Youth, Zest and the Tragic Side of Life: Whitehead's Reflections
  233. ​Whitehead's Metaphysics of Zest
  234. No Experience Left Behind: Whitehead's Radically Inclusive Epistemology
  235. Tastes of Infinity: Art and the Consoling Power of Beauty
  236. Intellectual Hospitality: Whitehead's Practice of Assemblage as a Civic Virtue
  237. That Rome, That Europe: Whitehead on how History transcends Ideas
  238. A Universe with Fifteen Dimensions? Transcending Three-Dimensional Parochialism
  239. A Love that Does Not Let Go: Whitehead on the Poignancy of a Dog's Feelings ​​
  240. God’s Call to Dye My Hair Silver: On Reinvention, Longing, and the Divine Lure
  241. ​​I Believe in Mary Magdalene: A Process-Relational Approach
  242. Whitehead on Art: Ten Key Ideas
  243. Sin as a Sacred Wound: Richard Wiltshire
  244. New Traditionalists and Progressive Postmodernists: Richard Wiltshire​​​
  245. Loving Life Even in its Brokenness: Whitehead on the Intuition of Peace
  246. Scorpions in the Mind: Process Theology and Trauma ​
  247. The Pregnancy of the Abyss: How Paradise Lost Prefigures Whitehead
  248. Whitehead on the Goddess Atè: God as the Remorseless Working of Things
  249. ​​Not a Mirror but a Lure: Wittgenstein’s Gift to Process Philosophy
  250. On Being a Conservative with Roots and Wings: Leo Strauss and AN Whitehead ​  ​
  251. Whitehead on the Desire to be Famous
  252. Hamlet Concrescing: The Aesthetics of a ​Radically Inward Soul
  253. Process and Experience: Sensory and Trans-Sensory, Ordinary and Extraordinary
  254. ​Insistent Particularity: Concreteness in a World of Becoming
  255. Quiddity and ​Haecceity: Whatness and Thisness in a World of Becoming
  256. The Resilience of the Supernatural: Ross Douthat and Process Theology
  257. The Ground Beneath our Feet: David Ray Griffin on Common Sense Philosophy
  258. Phoenix Theology: A Process Philosophy in support of People Who Rise from Ashes
  259. The Wound and the Promise: The Fisher King, the Holy Grail, and Process Philosophy
  260. Moving On by Creating Beauty
  261. Three Visions of Power: Armipotence, Amipotence, Omnipotence
  262. A Sovereignty of Softness: Reimagining Empire as Love without Flags
  263. Pixies for a Better World: The Mischievous Side of Love
  264. Christ and the Fairies: Whitehead on the Multifariousness of the World
  265. ​Tone of Voice: Process Philosophy and the Sonic Side of Speech​
  266. Beyond Opsomania: Whitehead and the Aesthetics of Creative Living
  267. ​A Theology of Purple Rain: Love, Loss, and Lure of Intensity
  268. The Need to Secularize the Concept of God: Alfred North Whitehead
  269. Y'all: An Open and Relational Appreciation of Complex, Composite Selfhood
  270. They Hear my Words but Not my World: From Logocentric to Relational Listening
  271. God only Knows ​What I'd Be Without You: How Love Shapes Our Lives
  272. The Basis of Experience is Emotional: Feeling the Moods of Others
  273. ​Throbs of Emotional Energy: Whitehead's Idea that the Universe is Alive with Desire and Feeling ​​
  274. Beyond Systems and Patterns: Respect for Individuals as Self-Creative Subjects
  275. Peaceable Kingdom: Art, Prayer, and Practice
  276. Religion without a Personal God: The Non-Theistic Strand of Process Theology
  277. Nihilism, Martin Heidegger, the Kyoto School, and Process Philosophy: Dr. Edgar Blanco Carrero
  278. An Evolving Torah from an Evolving God: Dr. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
  279. I Pray before I Vote: The Open and Relational Legislator
  280. Mindful Metaphysics: Head, Hands, and Heart
  281. The New Traditionalism: Converts to Orthodoxy as an Ocean of Possibility
  282. Musicking: Music as a Dynamic, Relational Event
  283. Five Quail Eggs: Tilly Woodward and the Art of Small Things
  284. Practical Skills Therapeutic Education: For Children and Adults with Learning Challenges
  285. The Moving Image of Eternity: Whitehead on Michelangelo
  286. Stillness and Swirling: Permanence and Flux in Whitehead's Philosophy
  287. Comedy as Dislocated Desire: Molière and Whitehead
  288. Cross-Cultural Education and the American Soul: Toward an America that Listens Again​
  289. Whitehead and Augustine on Freedom: Maria Lupe Llanes
  290. What is a Unicorn? The Ontological Status of Imagined Realities
  291. Bob Dylan as Secular Psalmist: His Fifty Best Songs
  292. God in the Operating Room: Process Theology and Surgery
  293. There Is No Right Answer: Process Theology and Sophie's Choice
  294. ​Queerfully & Wonderfully Made: Vikki Randall
  295. Brokenhearted Love: A Process Interpretation of Divine Wrath
  296. Dragon Fruit: A Philosophical Theology
  297. Are Some People Not Worth Grieving For? The Theology of Cruelty
  298. ​​Theology in a Fast Car: I had a Feeling I Could Be Someone​
  299. We Are Family: Theology You Can Dance To
  300. Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Intense: The Byronic Hero
  301. Reimagining Christ for an Evolving World: ​Austin Roberts
  302. Learning to Live in My Body An Open and Relational Approach
  303. Universal Love as a Plasmatic Field: A Theology of the Spirit in Motion
  304. The Cambrian Explosion and Process Theology: ​We, Too, are an Experiment.
  305. A Turning toward Love: From Process Theology to Relational Wisdom
  306. ​Beware the Self-Satisfied CHINO (Christian In Name Only)
  307. Peace be with You: ​The Amipotent Spirit of Pope Leo's First Words​
  308. I want Satisfying Work and I want to Help People: A Relational Theology of Work
  309. Antarctic Moments: The Hidden Beauty of Silence and Solitude
  310. Open and Relational Kali: The Wildness of Divine Love​
  311. The Plasmatic Personality: Living with Charged Aliveness in a Solid-Seeming World​​
  312. Seeds of Hope in a Time of Need: Micro-Communities, Relational Fields, and Ecological Civilization​​​
  313. From Faust to Francis: Reimagining Ambition in a World Becoming​​
  314. The Contentious Marriage of Christianity and Capitalism:: Can It Be Annulled?​​
  315. Whitehead and Leo Strauss: Eternal Ideals, Philosophic Humility, the Crisis of Modernity, and the Re-enchantment of Nature​
  316. Open and Relational Catholicism: A Possibility Waiting to Happen
  317. ​Trump Paganism versus Christian Compassion​
  318. How Moods Disclose the World: Heidegger and Whitehead in Conversation
  319. ​The Whiteheadian Flea Market: Where Possibility Meets Pre-Loved Actuality
  320. The Shoreline Walks Me: Beachcombing as a Spiritual Practice ​
  321. The Three Little Pigs: A Process Theology
  322. Using Traditional Language​ in a Process Way
  323. ​Reimagining Supernaturalism​: Whitehead, Novelty, and the Living Cosmos​
  324. ​Green Grace: Finding God in Houseplants
  325. Carrying On as a Spiritual Practice: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  326. Creation out of Nothing Reimagined: Process Philosophy and the Primordial Decision of God​
  327. ​Cosmic Dust and Tenderness: Galactic Evolution and Sentient Life​
  328. Where the Light Falls: On Chickens, Compassion, and Animal Subjectivity
  329. Sometimes Omnipotence means Infinite Love: A More Expansive Process Theology
  330. ​Our Joyful, Welcoming Pope: Pope Francis' Spiritual Teachings​
  331. Beyond Semantic Absolutism: Why Process Thinkers need Wittgenstein
  332. ​We Who Mop: Dignity and Divine Presence in Domestic Labor​
  333. ​A Theology of Cruelty: The Moral Meltdown of the United States​
  334. Theology Mapped and Glimpsed: Big Ideas and Sideways Glances
  335. Why Play Still Matters When the World is Falling Apart
  336. ​Process Theology of Cat Lovers​
  337. Finding God in Quiet Moments: A Process Theology of Mindfulness
  338. ​Taking Care of My Mother: Process Theology and Caregiving
  339. ​​World-Making and Sonic Space: A Process Reflection on Sound Objects​
  340. Missing my Daughter: Process Theology and Grief ​
  341. ​​The Lure to be Curious: Process Theology and Lifelong Learning
  342. Process Theology for People in Recovery
  343. Process Theology for Caregivers​​​
  344. Process Theology for People Who Talk To Trees​
  345. Process Theology for Dog-Lovers
  346. Planting Seeds: Sermons as Lures for Feeling
  347. ​Thrift Store Dandyism as a Metaphysical Performance​
  348. ​​Thrift Store Mysticism: Love for what has been Softened by Time
  349. ​​Notes from a Process Gardener: Pollinator Gardens as Symbols of Hope​
  350. ​Meaning and/or Aliveness: What Are We Seeking in Life?
  351. Yearning for Beauty: ​Whitehead's Metaphysics and the Phenomenology of Desire
  352. ​Sinless Jesus? A Reflection by John Cobb
  353. ​​​It Begins by Opening the Eyes: Contemplative Prayer and the Photography of Thomas Oord
  354. ​Entangled Amipotence: A Photograph by Thomas Oord​
  355. The Whiteheadian Street Mystic: Metaphysics with Calluses on its Hands​​
  356. If Music be the Food of Love, Play On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Eucharist ​
  357. ​​​Cosmic Calligraphy: Reading Process and Reality as if ​it were written in Chinese​
  358. ​Language and the Living Earth: A Whiteheadian Exploration​
  359. ​​​Beyond the Alphabet: Process Thought Across Linguistic Worlds
  360. ​Mysticism in Many Forms: Horizontal and Vertical, Ecstatic and Everyday
  361. Replanting Yourself in Beauty: A Theology of Replenishment
  362. ​The Quaking and Shaking of Everything: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  363. After Oedipus: The Evolution of Open and Relational Theology
  364. ​Being Breathed by God: Reflections on Divine Inspiration​
  365. The Mean-ification of America™ - Making Cruelty Convenient Again
  366. Is God Personal? Reflections by John Cobb
  367. Where is the Past? A Reflection by John Cobb
  368. ​​SPARKS: An Arts Collective Rooted in Process and Possibility
  369. ​The Miraculous: A Reflection by Bradley Shavit Artson
  370. ​​Parapsychology and Miracles: Reflections by John Cobb​
  371. ​​Performing Gender: Shakespeare, ​Whitehead, and Queer Theology
  372. The Long Road of Love: Process Theology in a Time of Disillusionment
  373. ​Teilhard and Whitehead on Hope: Finding Omega in a Time of Need
  374. ​Celebrating John Cobb: An American Friend and Mentor in China (Meijun Fan)
  375. ​In Memory of John B. Cobb: Helen Zhang Haiyan (mainland China)
  376. ​Panoramic Sound Quilting: Matana Roberts and Process Thought
  377. ​Process Super-Naturalism: Beyond the Bifurcation of Natural and Supernatural​
  378. ​Embodied Prehensions: A Process Theology of Touch​​​
  379. A More Expansive Process Theology: Reclaiming Omnipotence and Supernaturalism​
  380. Local Bonds and World Loyalty: Reflections on Process and Patriotism
  381. Making Space for Omnipotence: An Appeal to Open and Relational Theologians
  382. ​Political Rhetoric:​ Whitehead, Mark Antony, and the Emotional Power of Language
  383. A More Manly Christianity: A Satirical Updating of the Gospel of Love​
  384. ​The Interior Life of an Elevator: Panexperiential Ergonomics
  385. ​​Underwear: A Theology
  386. The Emotional Life of Bees and the Polycentric Love of God​
  387. Process & Coffee: Aesthetics, Ethics, Spirituality, and Hospitality
  388. Finding Beauty in Everyday Life: Jaroslav Seifert and AN Whitehead
  389. Solidarity of the Shaken: Jan Patočka, Whitehead, and the Ethics of Contingency
  390. Csárdás and the Living Universe: Dedicated to Attila Grandpierre
  391. Living in Truth: Process Theology and Václav Havel ​
  392. ​Becoming Human, Seeking Truth: ​Process Theology and Pinocchio​
  393. ​​Jesus Denied Entry to the U.S. – Officials Cite Economic & Security Concerns​
  394. Jesus at the Infinity Pool? Luxury Resorts and the Exclusion of God​
  395. ​​The Tree of Process Thought: Three Points of Entry to the Process Movement
  396. ​Beyond Priggishness: Theology Beer Camps and Shakespeare's Falstaff​ ​​​
  397. ​Being is Becoming: Process Theology and the Wizard of Oz
  398. Serving the Common Good: Confucian Insights for American Democracy ​
  399. ​​​​​​​​Harry Potter, Hamlet, and God: Characters in our Imagination ​
  400. Official Announcement: First Annual Congressional Conformity Competition
  401. Breaking News: Congress Moves to Ban the Beatitudes as Un-American! (satire)
  402. Who Doth Love Me Most? Politics, ​the Culture of Flattery and King Lear ​​
  403. Whitehead's Theory of Value: John Cobb​
  404. Experience Everywhere: Actual Entities, Creativity, and God
  405. Divine Cytoplasm: A Fluid Presence Facilitating Communication between Cells​​
  406. Building a Cathedral ​of Love and Beauty: Teilhard and Process Philosophy ​​​​ 
  407. ​Breaking News: Compassion Takes Official Leave of Absence from Government​ (satire)
  408. Executive Order from the President: Termination of Employment for Jesus of Nazareth
  409. Jesus was Bad for America - So we had to fire him (satire)​​
  410. Jesus Visits the King's Palace: Too Much Opulence​​
  411. Resilience & The Prickly Pear Heart: Nita Gilger​​
  412. Ordering Desires and Love: Thomas Jay Oord
  413. ​Praying for the Villain: Shakespeare, Process Theology, and Transformative Love​
  414. ​Becoming a Pocket of Grace: Creating Light in a Transactional World
  415. ​Gardening Through the Apocalypse: ​A To-Do List for February
  416. ​​The Cosmic Lure of Love: Teilhard, Whitehead, and the Evolution of Sympathy
  417. Pity the Pompous Prig: God as a Lure to Dance
  418. Moments of Omega: A Thank You Note to Teilhard de Chardin​​
  419. Sun Ra, Whitehead, and a Cosmic Philosophy of Sound
  420. ​You're Absolutely Right! How to become a Political Sycophant​
  421. The Present Storm: Echo Chambers, Sycophancy, and the Will to Power
  422. The Wise and Loving Fool: Christianity and the Courage to Challenge Kings
  423. The Disaster of Shutting Down USAID: J.D. Gingerich​
  424. The Fossil Mystic: A Process Theology of Trilobites​​
  425. ​​Kindness, Beauty, Creativity: The Mood of Process Philosophy
  426. I, Too, am a Wanderer: A Process Theology of Asteroids
  427. The Stalinization of America: Seeking a Christian Alternative
  428. ​Deconstructive Populism: The Visceral Delight of Tearing Things Down
  429. Divine Love-Energy: Ten Ways to Participate in the Flow of Amipotence
  430. ​Humanities Orchards: Creativity and Curiosity in the Local Church​
  431. ​The Road less Travelled: A Christian Politician's Journey beyond Self-Deception
  432. Banquo's Silence:​ Misplaced Loyalty, Servile Flattery, and the Erosion of Dignity​
  433. A Ruthless, Insecure King: Insights from Freud and Whitehead
  434. ​Send in the Clowns: A Process Theology of Playful Resilience
  435. ​A Sanctuary of Listening: Hospitality as the Heart of the Church​
  436. ​Hegel and Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection
  437. What does Leadership Sound Like? Marian Anderson Singing at the Lincoln Memorial​
  438. ​Amipotence with or without God: Living Options in Open and Relational Theology
  439. ​​The Politics We Need: Love, Relationality, and the Amipotent Vision
  440. Emotional Communities: Human, Microbial, Galactic, and Divine
  441. ​Let's Ban Shakespeare: A Christian Call to Action​
  442. ​The Pleasures of Holy Anarchy: Appreciating the Theology of Graham Adams
  443. God as Infinite Receptivity: Dombrowski’s Friendly Amendment to Oord’s Theology
  444. ​A Walk in the Woods: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  445. From Transaction to Transformation: Rethinking Atonement with Nichole Torbitzky
  446. ​God Beyond the Solid: Divine Love as a Relational Field whose Body is the Universe
  447. Solid Bodies Colliding in an Event-Based Ontology
  448. From Solids to Events: Condensed Matter Physics and Whitehead’s Philosophy ​
  449. ​Jimmy Carter: Faith in Action​
  450. ​Geometry and Spirituality: A Theology of Points and Lines
  451. Love, Beauty, and Surprise: The Triad of Process Thought
  452. ​I Didn't Expect That: A Process Theology of Surprise
  453. ​Sacred Rhythms in Daily Life: Finding Balance in a Frenzied World​
  454. Diamonds, Rust, and Gratitude: Process Theology and Joan Baez
  455. ​Sound, Chaos, and the Creativity: The Avant-Garde Music of Iannis Xenakis
  456. The Widening Effect: John Cobb’s Legacy of Imagination, Compassion, and Hope
  457. Studying Whitehead's Process and Reality with John Cobb: A Reminiscence
  458. John Cobb's Guidance: His Vocation, Lifestyle, and Sense of God's Love
  459. Constructive Political Leadership: A Whiteheadian-Shakespearean Approach
  460. ​Warrior Morality vs. the Way of Jesus: Leading by Moral Example
  461. Teach us To Feel: What Extraterrestrials May be Looking For ​
  462. Meaningful Coincidences & Signs from God: Process Theology and Synchronicities
  463. ​This is What Babies Do: O Come Let us Adore Him​
  464. Play, Grace, and Laughter: A Process Theology of Humor
  465. ​A Refusal to be Detached: Reflections on Divine Bathos
  466. ​Three Types of Process Philosophy: Speculative, Experiential, and Mathematical
  467. Perpetual Perishing and Beauty: The Wild Swans of Coole by WB Yeats​
  468. Shakespeare in Prison: Process Theology in Action
  469. Cosmic Epochs, Alternative Worlds, and Inter-Epochal Communication
  470. Praying to the Stars: Amipotence and Intercessory Prayer
  471. Two Friends Beneath the Stars: God as the Heart and Whole of the Universe
  472. ​Enduring a Toothache: Empirical Process Philosophy​
  473. Process and Memory: The Experience of Pastness​​
  474. Jingle Bells and Gentle Tears: The Metaphysics of Listening to Holiday Music
  475. Love and Mystery​: ​Heidegger's Critique of Metaphysics as a Challenge to Whitehead​
  476. Oceans of Possibility: Creative Genealogy and the China Project of CPS
  477. Spirit, Planet, Galaxy: The Expanding Boundaries of Human History
  478. What is & What Can Be: Process Philosophy & Les Misérables​​​​​
  479. ​The Dense Fog of Sycophancy:  ​Process Theology, Jesus, and Integrity in Political Life​​
  480. Shared Earth, Shared Kinship: Renewing Our Relationship with Animals​​
  481. Biopoetic Crickets: Process Theology and the Enjoyment of Chirping
  482. You Must Cultivate Your Garden: Candide's Advice to the Metaphysician​
  483. ​​Weaving Shadows: Process Philosophy in Conversation with Freud
  484. ​Out of Eden: Process Theology and John Milton's Paradise Lost
  485. ​Restless Hearts and Dynamic Grace: Augustine and Process Theology​
  486. Faith and Reason: Enfilade and Mise en Abyme ​
  487. Going to Sleep while Reading: The Cognitive and Spiritual Value of Liminal States of Mind​
  488. The Unseen Embrace: A Process Theology of Gravity
  489. ​The Antikythera Mechanism: Process Theology, Engineering, ​and the World's First Computer​
  490. Process Theology and the Trump Movement: Reimagining Six Trumpian Themes
  491. Rain: A Poem by Nita Gilger
  492. ​I Want to Bathe in the River of Beauty: A Poem by Patricia Adams Farmer
  493. The Enemy of our Better Selves: A Process Theology of the Devil
  494. Small but Tough People: Thriving in Inhospitable Circumstances
  495. ​Walking with Wordsworth: Finding Sanctuary in Green Spaces
  496. Awareness-Based Systems Change: Process Philosophy, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
  497. ​​Filial Piety and Eco-Piety: Process Confucianism
  498. ​Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Courage to Acknowledge Flaws
  499. The Galilean Vision: Following Jesus in an Age of Ruling Caesars​
  500. ​Lead us not into Sleaziness: Process Theology & The Charlatan
  501. ​Co-Creating a Flourishing World: Mindful Metaphysics, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
  502. After the Election: ​Yearning for a Culture of Listening​
  503. The Humility of True Heroes: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Process Perspective
  504. Antigone: A Young Woman's ​Search for Justice
  505. The Flying Elbow Drop: A Process Reflection on Professional Wrestling​
  506. Your Hero is My Villain: A Lesson from Shakespeare
  507. Living Earth Wonder Clubs: An Imaginary Network of Earth-Amazed Families and Friends
  508. Theo-Fandom: Beyoncé, Harry Potter, and Process Philosophy​
  509. Weaving Emotions, Weaving a World: Concrescence and Catharsis
  510. A Visceral Sense of Doom: Whitehead and Sludge Metal
  511. Panexperiential Theology: A Living Cosmos and the Perpetual Newness of God​
  512. Romantic Banter as Embodied Metaphysics: Whitehead's Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
  513. The Polymorphous Self: Identifying with Animals and Mythical Creatures
  514. Us versus Them: Competitive Sports, Partisan Politics, and Process Philosophy
  515. The Myriad-Minded Soul: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Enjoyment of Contrasts​
  516. Authenticity and Morality: A Short Note on Heidegger and Whitehead
  517. The Politics of Scowling: Core Characteristics of the Fascist Personality​
  518. Whitehead, the I Ching, and the Suchness of Pure Potentialities​
  519. A Deeper Dive into Whitehead: The Eight Categories of Existence plus Creativity and God​
  520. ​Wordsworth and Whitehead​
  521. Chinese and American Friendship: Practicing Process Philosophy in a Chinese Kitchen
  522. Social Therapy and Social Therapeutics: Creating Performative Spaces where Life can Flourish​
  523. The Garden as an Inclusive Learning Center: A Zone of Proximal Development​
  524. ​The Instrumental Value of Chaos: Whitehead, John Milton, and Satan in Paradise Lost
  525. The Universe as a Theatrical Event: Co-Creativity, Improvisation, and Polydrama
  526. Embracing the Many: A Mysticism of Multiplicity ​
  527. No Need to Decide: Process Philosophy and the need for Cognitive Flexibility
  528. All Actual Entities Matter to Themselves: The Ontology of Self-Enjoyment in Whitehead's Philosophy​
  529. ​A Taste for the Infinite: Schleiermacher, Process Theology, and the Sublime
  530. The Creative Void: ​Exploring the Metaphysics of Empty Space
  531. Whitehead, Wormholes, and the Longing for Cosmic Connections
  532. ​The Enigmatic Cesario: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of Fluid Gender Identity in Twelfth Night
  533. ​Improvisational Learning: Vygotsky, Whitehead, and the Zone of Becoming
  534. Qualities of a Needed Political Leader: Analytic Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Love Intelligence
  535. Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute  ​
  536. Bertolt Brecht: A Process-Oriented Marxist Poet and Playwright
  537. More than Entertainment: Art's Role in Creating Just Communities 
  538. Aging in a New Key: The Spiritual Benefits of Learning an Instrument in Later Years
  539. ​Hyper-Masculinity and Militarism: Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Process Perspective ​
  540. The Global Process Community: A River with Twelve Tributaries​
  541. From Fragmentation to Flourishing: Uniting the Process Community
  542. Whitehead on Civilizations, Ecological and Otherwise: Philip Clayton
  543. Theatre of the Ordinary: Anton Chekhov & The Quiet Dignity of Unrealized Dreams​
  544. Decisions Made in Rage: Medea's Revenge
  545. Lived Geometry: The Experience of Space in Process Philosophy
  546. The Creative Cosmos Collective
  547. To Whitehead: An Active Verb 
  548. The Puckish Side of God: Toward a Process Theology of Mischief
  549. A Midsummer Night's Entanglement: Shakespeare, Whitehead, and Freud 
  550. The Mind of a Mathematician: A Whiteheadian Approach
  551. Relationality and the Ethic of Loving Attention: Judith Jones and Iris Murdoch
  552. Iago's Motives: Whitehead and Shakespeare on the nature of a Villain
  553. When God becomes a Bromide:​ Process Theology Beyond Platitudes
  554. The Desire to be Relevant and Remarkable
  555. The Receptacle as Creativity: Whitehead and Faber
  556. The Cosmo-Mythic Imagination and Many Worlds: Whitehead and Faber
  557. The Mind of Whitehead: Roland Faber​
  558. Virginia Woolf and Alfred North Whitehead: Veronika Krajíčková ​and the Living Earth​​
  559. Theology in Moments of Time: Tori Owens, Jay McDaniel​
  560. It's the Little Things Sometimes: Nita Gilger
  561. Apotheosis: The Reformation and Divinization of the World in God's Ongoing Life​
  562. Process Philosophy and Shakespeare: A Seminar
  563. ​Sentience all the Way Down? John Pohl's Theology of the Microbe 
  564. Open and Relational Music Makers: Many Genres, One Love​​​
  565. Beneath the Surface: A Process Theology of Jellyfish
  566. The Metaphysics of Pain & Whitehead's Philosophy of Feeling
  567. To My Israeli and Palestinian Friends: Letter from a Process Theologian
  568. ​​​Being a Non-Anxious Presence as a Way of Imitating God
  569. ​​Whitehead's Idea of the Superject: Theory and Applications
  570. The Subject as Superject: Constructive Superjecting as a Way of Life
  571. ​Process Philosophy and the Performing Arts: Points of Connection
  572. The Art of Holding Up a Mirror: What Process Philosophy can learn from Shakespeare
  573. Neologistically Speaking: Whitehead's Creative Use of "Concrescence"
  574. Beyond Consciousness: Understanding Whitehead's Concept of Experience​
  575. Prehensions and the Solidarity of the Universe: Whitehead's Proposal
  576. ​Beyond Process: The Everlasting and Eternal Elements in Whitehead's Philosophy​
  577. From Disgust to Dialogue: Moving Beyond the Emotional Tug of Political Polarization​
  578. Eternal Objects and ​the Dynamics of Process: Exploring Whitehead's Philosophy of Pure Potentialities​
  579. ​Cognition and Concrescence: Process Reflections on the Many Ways of Knowing
  580. ​Mathematics and Emotion: Whitehead’s Categories of Existence and Interdisciplinary Studies
  581. ​​An Open and Relational Church: Eight Ways of Knowing God
  582. Divine Presence: Ten Forms of Inwardness​
  583. The Problem with being Anti-Metaphysical
  584. ​Christians Against Trump and Christians Against Trump: A Quiet, Growing Movement
  585. Some Metaphysical Missteps (to which metaphysical enthusiasts are prone)
  586. ​It is the Mending that Matters: Process Theology, Trauma, and Second Chances
  587. ​The Nothing that's become Something: ​Jonathan Foster
  588. The Falstaffian God: Embracing Life’s Richness
  589. A Quiet Platonism: The Fibonacci Sequence and Whitehead's Concept of Ingression
  590. ​Jesus the Yanker: Free Radicals and Antioxidants
  591. ​​Compassionate Inter-Becoming: The Bodhisattva Vow and Process Theology​
  592. ​Changing your Mind for God's Sake: Oath Taking and Oath Breaking
  593. ​Imagining the Universe as a Cosmic Learning Community
  594. ​To the Church of my Youth: Where did You Go?
  595. Beyond Clarity and Moralizing: A Place for Productive Ambiguity in Theology
  596. Unblaming God: Discovering Divine Tenderness Beyond Tragedy​ ​
  597. Our Ass Doesn't Laugh: Political Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream​​​​
  598. The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream​​​​
  599. Death is a Kind of Gravity: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  600. ​​The Value of Unresolved Tensions: Whitehead's Philosophy and Hamlet's Inner Life​​​
  601. Will Whitehead be Read a Hundred Years from Now? Yes, and here's how.
  602. Mystery and the Sailing Rocks of Death Valley: Nita Gilger
  603. ​Self-death as a Symbol of Radical Freedom: Farhan Shah
  604. Reading Whitehead/Reading Shakespeare
  605. ​We are Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and Political Theatre​
  606. Ten Teachings of Process Zen: Inspired by Dainin Katagiri Roshi
  607. ​The Process is You: The Zen Teachings of Dainin Katagiri Roshi
  608. Finding the Gospel in the Cerulean Sea: Vikki Randall
  609. ​Why I Put Down my God-is-Dead Flag: Jay McDaniel​
  610. ​Oughtism: The Rigid Moralist​
  611. The Post-Human Self: The Microbial Side of Human Life​
  612. ​Napping for a Better World: The Liberating Vision of Tricia Hersey
  613. Onto-Fugitivity, Post-Activism, and Deep Listening: Báyò Akómoláfé
  614. The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down: Báyò Akómoláfé​
  615. Home-Grown Process Theology: Personalized, Accessible, Mindful, and Adventurous
  616. Let Them Run Outside When It's Raining: Ecological Civilization and Nature-Based Play​
  617. Can Generous Listening help Heal the World? 
  618. ​Saving Mozart: Ecological Civilization, Classical Music, AI, and Process Theology
  619. From Amipotence to Ecopotence: De-sentimentalizing Divine Love through Ecology​
  620. The Madness of American Politics: A Prayer for Coping
  621. The Present Moment is Holy Ground: A Process Zen Reflection
  622. ​Religion with Wings: A Process Theology of Imagination
  623. No Ideas but in Things: William Carlos Williams
  624. ​Ambition or Integrity: The Politician's Dilemma
  625. ​Navigating the Crossroads: ​Integrating Christian Process Thought and Zen Buddhism
  626. ​I think the Earth Remembers Me: Hiking as a Spiritual Practice​
  627. Moral Outrage, Resentment, and Self-Righteousness: Buddhism and Forgiveness
  628. Helping Others Flourish: A Process Theology of Butterflies
  629. ​Blow the Door Open: John Donne, Process Theology, and the Divine Lure​
  630. ​The Tiny Philosopher of Wonder: Patricia Adams Farmer​​
  631. A Review of Bruce Epperly's "The God of Tomorrow"​
  632. The Universe as an Artistic Activity: Process Philosophy and Art
  633. Luring Love: Process Theology and the Therapeutic Value of AI Companions
  634. ​The Desire to be Immersed in Beauty: ​Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man​
  635. The Feeling of "If" - Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead​
  636. Process and Music: Twenty Key Ideas
  637. Six Roles of the Artist in an Ecological Civilization ​
  638. Let the Last Word be Love: A Sermon for Pride Month by Vikki Randall
  639. ​Of God and Squash Bugs: Living with ​​an Anthropocentric Bias
  640. ​There's Been a Change of Plans: Non-Compulsive Planning in Process Zen
  641. A Whole Universe of Stories: Patricia Adams Farmer, Sallie McFague, and Teilhard de Chardin
  642. How Does it Feel? A Theology of Vibes
  643. ​The Fallacy of Misplaced Divinity: Confusing Winds of the Spirit with Ideas about God 
  644. ​Return to the River of Belonging: Patricia Adams Farmer
  645. Let Love be the Judge: Oord Responds to Charges Pending Trial for Queer Affirmation​
  646. You Should be Dancing: Process Theology and the Bee Gees​​
  647. The Basis of Relational Mysticism: ​Simple Physical Feelings​​
  648. A Yearning for Intensity: Whitehead's Notion of Contrasts​
  649. Is the Smartphone more Useful than God? Process Theology in a Digital Age​​​
  650. The Sanctuary of Openness: Rebecca Ann Parker on Faith without Grasping
  651. ​​Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. Zen Meditation and Process Theology
  652. ​​Changing without Moving: The Metaphysics of Actual Entities
  653. ​​All Creatures Great and Small: Relations with Animals as Relations with God​​
  654. I am Curious: Process Philosophy and ​the Polymath Sensibility
  655. ​Process & Discernment: Pulled in Many Directions, Listening for Initial Aims from God
  656. Do Open and Relational Thinkers Talk about God Too Much? Yes, sometimes.
  657. ​Inclusive Community: Phil Ochs, Process Theology, Church of the Village
  658. Singing Old Hymns in New Ways: Jay McDaniel and Al Gephart​
  659. Chinese and American Farming Friends: Wendell Berry and Yan Shi ​​
  660. Saving God: Tripp Fuller's Christology and Christ the Bodhisattva​
  661. If God is Omnipresent, ​Why Go to Church? Notes on an essay by Casey T. Sigmon
  662. The Rapture of Being Alive: Two Hymns by Sheri Kling
  663. The Grace of the Empty Tomb: Notes on a sermon by Nichole Torbitzsky
  664. ​The Craziness of Christian Love: Notes on a Prayer by Vikki Randall
  665. Embracing the Moment: A Buddhist Perspective on Open and Relational Theology ​
  666. ​Wisdom and Mindfulness: Embracing Open and Relational Theology Without Succumbing to Ten Temptations​
  667. Wonder and Novelty: A Wild, Grassroots Version of Process-Relational Thought​
  668. Climate Change and the Liberal Arts: Music and Printmaking for the Earth Community
  669. ​Digital Humility: From Social Media Exhibitionism to Community-Centered Connectivity
  670. The Last Flight of a Disappointed Mosquito: ​Divine Love in Small Things​
  671. ​The Red Wheelbarrow: ​The Place of Particulars in Metamodern Religion​
  672. Leaning into Withness: A Whiteheadian Reflection on a Sermon by Jonathan Foster
  673. Flourishing: An Open and Relational Pneumatology
  674. ​A Sermon is Co-Created: Listening to a Sermon with an Open and Relational Heart​
  675. Cosmic Awakenings: Andrew Davis on a Universe of Value​
  676. Quiet Unpretentious Love: Beyond Envy, Comparisons, and Social Media Compulsions
  677. Eclipse Theology: Ten Questions for Reflection
  678. ​God after Deconstruction for Christians influenced by Buddhism​
  679. Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian God: Multiple Ultimates​
  680. Emptiness and Abba: Zen (Metamodern) Christianity​
  681. Can God Laugh? Ten Forms of Divine Laughter
  682. Planting Seeds of Hope: A "Process Theology" Coloring Book​
  683. Love, Betrayal, and Forgiveness: A Process Theory of the Atonement 
  684. ​The Jewish Jesus & Jewish Process Theology: An Introduction​
  685. Job and Whitehead: Making Space for Vagueness and Confusion
  686. Christian Process Theology and Metamodernism: Springboards for Conversation
  687. ​There is no Divine Plan and It Should Have been Otherwise: 20 Days in Mariupol
  688. Vastness and Beauty: Sixteen Reasons to Love the Night Sky
  689. Dogs, Gardens, Donkeys, and Children: An Organic Family ​for the Common Good
  690. Praying to Jesus: A Metamodern Possibility?
  691. ​Non-Mysticism: ​Letting the World Be Itself ​
  692. Joyful Spirits of the Universe: Everything is Made of Emotions
  693. Holy Now, The Music Plays On: The Lasting Legacy of Len Delony
  694. Relational Power in Theory and Practice: Mesle and McDaniel
  695. Three Dimensions of Relational Power: Mesle and McDaniel​
  696. The Shadow of Your Wings: A God Who Migrates
  697. Cemetery Care: A Process Practice​
  698. The Coming Solar Eclipse: An Astronomical Altar Call
  699. ​Elegy for my Mother's Mind: Laura Van Prooyen
  700. ​Backward Miracles: Reclaiming the Single Loaf of Bread
  701. ​The Potato as Mystic: So Much Happens Underground
  702. Fidelity to the Lure of Divine Creativity: Jared Morningstar
  703. ​​​​​"I'm Done with It." Ten Options to the Modern World​​​
  704. Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Loving: ​Process Philosophy and the Byronic Hero​
  705. The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Spirituality for Nones
  706. Aliens, UFOs, and Cosmic Religion: ​Process Philosophy and a New Religious Consciousness​​
  707. Open and Relational Atheism: An Affirmation of Life​​
  708. The Gambia Academy: Education for "Ecological Civilization" in Post-Colonial Africa​​
  709. Differences Make the Whole Richer: Interreligious Dialogue as the Enjoyment of Lived Beauty​
  710. East-West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization: Highlights from International Webinar​​​​​
  711. ​Process Zen: Being Present in the Moment​
  712. From the Ground Up: Teaching Process Thought to Children through Home Gardening
  713. Taylor Swift and Process Philosophy: ​A Submission to the Taylor Swift Swiftposium
  714. Imagining a Plant as a Huge Brain: Plant Metaphysics
  715. ​Starting a John Cobb Home Garden: Healing Action for a World in Need
  716. The Real Culture War: Authoritatives and Nurturers​​​
  717. A Stick is a Stick: The Metaphysics of Zen Christianity​
  718. John Cobb: My Frugal, Visionary Mentor
  719. You Sure Say "Ought" a Lot! ​The Problem of Excessive Preachiness​
  720. The Religion of Tomorrow: Ilia Delio and Process Theology​
  721. Blessing the Water Snakes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  722. ​We Move with the Music: Living with Dementia​
  723. Reimagining Dementia with help from Process Theology
  724. The Open and Relational Voice: Maria Callas and Process Theology​
  725. Respect for Elders and Respect for the Earth - Process Confucianism
  726. ​The Significance of Being Polite in Daily Life: Process and Confucianism​
  727. ​Moral Anaesthesia: Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
  728. ​Whitehead on God: Six Passages from Process and Reality
  729. Octavia Butler and Alfred North Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection​
  730. Iain McGilchrist and the Widening of Attention: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  731. ​The Joy of Having Curious Students: A Lesson from Confucius
  732. Zen, Novelty, and Suchness: Ultimate Reality in a Cup of Tea
  733. Three Faces of Ecological Civilization
  734. Is Negative Five an Eternal Object? A Young Girl in Rural China 
  735. ​Purpose in Human Life: L. Charles Birch
  736. ​Process Thought: An Introduction by Ian Barbour​
  737. ​​Reinventing Yourself: Process Theology and David Bowie
  738. ​Lighting Candles as Prayer: Lifting Things Up to the Light of the Universe​
  739. ​Finding Your Inner Banjo: A Process Theology for Pluckers
  740. ​Becoming a Whole Person
  741. ​God as Interpoint: Symbolic Logic as a Tool for Process Theology
  742. ​Teilhard's Fire: Donald Viney
  743. Bereaved Parents: Rebuilding Lives After a Suicide Loss (Farhan Shah)
  744. Knowing without Words: Whitehead and the Apophatic
  745. Faith, Hope, and Laughter: A Note on Process and Virtue
  746. ​Religion in the Making: Whitehead on Religion
  747. Religion and Science: Alfred North Whitehead​​​​​​​
  748. Mathematics and the Good: Alfred North Whitehead​
  749. Process Theology & Relations with Loved Ones after they Die​​​
  750. Healing Reactive Behavior: A Process and Jungian Approach: Sheri Kling
  751. Does P equal NP? A Mathematical Love Poem by Haipeng Guo
  752. Process and Puddings: A Culinary Approach to Process Philosophy​
  753. Yes, I can stay a while: Nita Gilger on Abiding
  754. Walking in the Air: Patricia Adams Farmer, Jay McDaniel​
  755. The Sentience of Lava: Katy Didden, Process Theology​
  756. Hiding in a Comfort Bubble: Turning Away from Suffering as a Kind of Evil​
  757. ​Making Peace with Impermanence: Whitehead and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
  758. ​It Wasn't Meant to Be: God & the Insistent Particularities of the World
  759. ​AN ​Whitehead and Louis Zukofsky on the Meaning of "A"
  760. ​Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the Epidemic of Self-Censorship​
  761. Trusting in Nurturant Light: Worship in a Process Context
  762. ​Ecological Civilization on My Balcony: Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, and Junfeng Wang on China's Future
  763. After Your Death: We Still Talk
  764. Having Faith When Life Does Not Make Sense: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  765. ​Process Buddhism: Learning from ​Kazi Adi Shakti​
  766. From Consumerism to Ecological Civilization
  767. ​Islam and Process Thought, challenges and possibilities: Farhan Shah​
  768. How would you advise Alex? A Journey in Open and Relational Theology
  769. ​Affirming Divine Omnipotence in Islamic Process Theology
  770. Process Theology through Equations: For the Mathematically Minded​
  771. The Consolation of Stars: Their Beauty, Their Independence​
  772. ​Process Theology and the Rapture: The Passing of the Love on Earth into Heaven
  773. "The Not-Yet God" by Ilia Delio: A Reflection and Review
  774. Theology as Curiosity: Rapturous Rewards of Serendipitous Discovery
  775. Living in Love's Universe: Rumi and Process Theology​​
  776. Let's Love Each Other: Haleh Liza Gafori reciting Rumi ​
  777. ​Process Theology and Encounters of the Third Kind: David Griffin, D.W. Pasulka
  778. ​Rabbi Bradley Artson on the Israel-Hamas Conflict
  779. ​Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From Islamic fundamentalism through Atheism to Christianity
  780. Shamanism: Life ​as a Cosmic Principle
  781. From the Place Where We Are Right Flowers will never Grow in the Spring: ​Yehuda Amichai
  782. ​The Fuller-Oord Project: Claiming Doubt as Part of Faith
  783. The Unmoved Mover of Process Theology: Changing without Moving​
  784. ​Have a Good Day and Get a Good Night's Sleep: Circadian Theology in Process Perspective
  785. ​An Eccentric View of the Normal: Science Fiction, Philip K. Dick, and Whitehead
  786. After the Battle, Many New Ghosts: Du Fu's "Facing Snow"
  787. ​After Deconstruction: The Process Theology of Artist/Theologian Steve Thomason
  788. Love and Social Justice: Daniel Day Williams
  789. Alien Minds, Artificial Intelligence, Cosmotheology: Andrew Davis and Martin Rees​
  790. grieving is the longing for home: Jonathan Foster's indigo 
  791. The Courage of Mushrooms: Nita Gilger
  792. ​The Soul-Expanding Melodies of Sadness: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  793. Music as Experiential Metaphysics: Schopenhauer, Whitehead, and Mahler
  794. Not a Hug but a Bow: A Softer more Buddhist ​Side of Whitehead
  795. Radical, Non-Binary Love: Understanding the Yearnings of My Enemies
  796. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream: Pete Seeger, John Cobb, Walter Brueggemann​
  797. Beyond Petty Factionalism: The Federalist Papers and ​Originalism in Process
  798. Supporting Pockets of Hope: A Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation
  799. Ideology, Terror and the Freedom to Begin Anew: Thinking with Hannah Arendt
  800. ​Process and Plankton: Eco-Theology and Microbial Life
  801. ​The Federalist Papers: A Process Reflection
  802. The Great Sadness of God: Patricia Adams Farmer
  803. ​All People of Goodwill Must Rally: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
  804. ​​Revisioning God and the Self with help from Buddhism: Jay McDaniel
  805. Nexūs and the Logic of Relations: John Lango
  806. Creation out of Nothing? Maybe so, maybe not, what's most important is love.​
  807. Process and Populism: The Humbling of Liberal Democracy
  808. Sourdough Spirituality: Patricia Adams Farmer
  809. Process Theology and Crows: Animals as Elders and Totems
  810. ​A More Expansive Truth: Apostasy as a Spiritual Practice
  811. ​Beyond Rank and Status: William Shakespeare and Whitehead's Image of God 
  812. Withness of the Body: Process Theology and Bodily Knowing
  813. ​Beyond the Management Mentality: Whitehead's Idea of 'Importance'
  814. ​Beings are Becomings: Introducing Process Philosophy ​with help from Gerunds​
  815. God as the Poet of the World: Ten Meanings
  816. The Migration of Religion to Popular Culture: Taylor Swift and Process Theology
  817. Curiouser and Curiouser: Whitehead, Lewis Carroll, and Alice in Wonderland
  818. The End of Materialism and the Civilizational Crisis: Maria-Teresa Teixeira in Munich
  819. ​Seven Process Poets in China: Ecology, Creativity, Freedom of Self-Expression
  820. The Sublime and the Mundane: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  821. The Constancy of Love: Shakespeare and Charles Hartshorne
  822. The Extensive Continuum: Michael Halewood in Munich
  823. Process Poets in China: Poetry, Ecology, Creativity
  824. Camping with Kierkegaard: Hot Chocolate with J. Aaron Simmons
  825. Andrew Davis in Munich: On the Goodness of Whitehead's God​
  826. Reading Poetry in a Whiteheadian Way: Christopher Hasty's Lecture in Munich
  827. The Lure of Margaritaville: A Whiteheadian Appreciation
  828. Chinese Youth Culture: I'm Growing Vegetables on my Balcony
  829. Whitehead's Infinitely Erotic God: The Love Poetry of Richie Hofmann
  830. Omega Now: The Eschatological Resurrection of all Things within the Divine Life
  831. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From - Book Review
  832. Places in the Heart: Final Scene and the Christian Gospel
  833. Dead Man Walking: Confession and Creative Transformation​
  834. Divine Inscrutability: Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" 
  835. Atonement: A Process Perspective
  836. The Metaphysics of Erasure Poetry: Tracy K. Smith's Declaration of Independence​
  837. The Dao of Civilization: ​A Letter to China - Freya Mathews
  838. The Process Poetry Movement in China
  839. Process Moral Education: Bangxiu Xie, Jay McDaniel, Bob Mesle​
  840. Joy Harjo and the Dream of the Earth
  841. Toward a Theology of Enzymes: God, Evolution, and Collaborative Design
  842. The Spiritual Side of Gardening: ​A Process Approach​
  843. Sex, Eros, and Love: Whiteheadian Reflections
  844. Beauty in the Darkness: Patricia Adams Farmer
  845. ​Apocalypse Coral​: God, Coral Reefs, Intrinsic Value, ​and Planet Loyalty​
  846. Strong, Independent, Assertive, Funny, and Feminist: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
  847. ​Is God in control? Reverend Barkley Thompson
  848. Ambition, Greed, Deception, and Revenge: Feudal Loyalty in American Society
  849. As John Sees It: Process Philosophy, AA, and Recovery
  850. John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
  851. O Second Moon of Jupiter, We, Too, are Made of Water: Sending Poetry to Europa
  852. ​Sonnet 73: Shakespeare and Whitehead on Love and Impermanence
  853. Welcoming our Extraterrestrial Neighbors: Process Philosophy and UFOs
  854. The Most Famous Cat in English Literature: ​Christopher Smart's Jeoffry
  855. Befriending the Planets: Ten Gifts from our Planetary Neighbors
  856. The Green Jesus is Breaking Ground: Process Christo-Poetics ​​
  857. Infinitely Tender, Infinitely Wild: Twenty-One Divine Infinities
  858. 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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