​
​Open Horizons


​exploring a process-relational
way of thinking and living in the world
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​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: Whitehead's Relational Ontology

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​Recent Posts

​​updated December 12, 2025
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  1. Ecological Civilization in China as an Aspirational ideal: Yang Lidi​
  2. God and the Godhead: The Metaphysical Ground of the All-Loving God
  3. Seeking a Deeper Ground: God and the Godhead in Whitehead's Philosophy
  4. Prehension and Psychedelics: John H Buchanan
  5. Metaphysical Difficulties in Process Theology: W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
  6. ​Process Mysticism by Daniel A. Dombrowski: Book Review by Adis Duderija
  7. ​A Deeper Sense of Belonging: Process Philosophy and Qigong
  8. Qi and Qigong: Breath, Movement, Creativity
  9. Feeling, Meaning, and Art: Susanne K. Langer
  10. The Principles of Creation in Art: Susanne K. Langer
  11. What is Consciousness? David Ray Griffin and Alfred North Whitehead
  12. Whitehead's Misconception of 'Substance' in Aristotle: James W. Felt, S.J.
  13. Psychic Energy: David Ray Griffin
  14. ​The Momentary Self: On Letting Go and Becoming Again
  15. The Universe in a Grain of Sand: Whitehead's Relational Ontology
  16. ​The Impermanence of Permanence: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  17. ​Novel Togetherness: Whitehead's Non-Numerical Notion of Oneness
  18. ​When Empathy Becomes Clingy: Process and Gloopiness
  19. Breakdancing in Uganda: A Process Appreciation
  20. "Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age" - Process Philosophy meets Lois Holzman
  21. Countering Hate Speech Through Video Art: A UNESCO-Awarded Initiative ​​
  22. The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Celebration of Plants
  23. Process Philosophy and the Twelve-Step Program: John Buchanan 
  24. Harmony and Intensity: The Sounds of the Chinese Guzheng
  25. "All in God" and "God in All" - A Whiteheadian Response to Thomas Oord​​
  26. Rhythm & Balance, Trust & Confidence: Finding God in Hippotherapy​​
  27. Does God Care What We Eat? Tim Miller
  28. Some Psychological Implications of Process Philosophy: John H. Buchanan
  29. ​People who love Plants: Horticultural Therapy in a Hurried World
  30. Psychedelics and Panentheism: A Whiteheadian Response to Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
  31. A Process-Relational Look at the Nicene Creed: Paul S. Nancarrow
  32. Art, Nature, and Science: The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
  33. Ghosts, Trolls & Hidden People: Enchanted Naturalism
  34. Leaving the Leaves: A Simple Way to Care for Life
  35. An Ontology of Gardening: Process Philosophy and Margaret Roach
  36. The Grammar of Animacy: Braiding Sweetgrass and Process Philosophy
  37. Topiary Art and Philosophy: Michael Gibson
  38. ​Send in the Clowns: The Transmutation of Loss into Tragic Beauty
  39. ​Trees Can Save the World, and We Can Help Them: Basil Camu
  40. Actual Entities as Adverbs: AN Whitehead
  41. Whitehead on Science, Religion, ​and the Phases of Experience
  42. An Ecological Civilization in Your Own Backyard: Douglas Tallamy​
  43. Play, Perform, Learn, Grow: Dan Friedman
  44. ​God both Hidden and Unhidden: Tim Miller, Jay McDaniel
  45. ​The Sound of Divine Hunger: A Note on Messiaen’s Le Banquet Céleste 
  46. ​Roland Faber on Transreligious Dialogue: Adis Duderija
  47. ​Cultural Capital and the Need to Feel Relevant: ​Bourdieu meets Whitehead
  48. ​Chinese Tradition, Process Thought, and Ecological Civilization: Wm. Andrew Schwartz
  49. ​Being Watched: ​Foucault, Whitehead, and the Ontology of Attention
  50. Reclaiming Interiority and Creativity in a Panoptical World: Foucault and Whitehead
  51. ​Performance Activism and Social Transformation: Dan Friedman
  52. An Olfactory Way of Knowing​: A Whiteheadian Approach to Smell
  53. ​That Smelly Feeling: Whitehead on the Sense of Smell
  54. ​Shaken into New Becoming: ​Whitehead, Empathy, and the Trembling Self
  55. Waste-Not Philosophy: A Spiritual Alternative to Throwaway Culture
  56. Thinking Sideways: Reflections on Constructive Weirdness
  57. Great Books, Gardening, and Community: A Quiet Revolution 
  58. Sitting Around a Table Talking about Deep Questions inspired by an Excellent Book
  59. ​A Different Kind of Permanence: Whitehead's Philosophy as a Footnote to Plato
  60. Adventures in Clumsiness: ​In Appreciation of Awkward Beauty
  61. ​The Green Leaf and the Round Ball: Whitehead's Reformed Subjectivist Principle
  62. Empathy, Coexistence, & Rebirth: Contemporary Chinese Eco-Art
  63. The Beauty of Huayao: Meijun Fan 
  64. Empathy for Plants and People: Shen Shaomin’s Bonsai series
  65. God and Dr. Faustus: An Open and Relational Understanding of the Devil
  66. Scraps of Light: Finding God in the Adorable
  67. ​No Inert Matter: A Puff of Existence in Far-Off Empty Space
  68. Does God love Puffs of Energy in Far-Off Empty Space?
  69. ​​Whitehead on Biblical Sayings: Propositions as Lures for Feeling ​
  70. ​Hamlet and Whitehead: Propositions as Lures for Feeling ​
  71. ​​Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute
  72. ​​Poetry and Patience: God as the Poet of the World
  73. ​Expanding Our Sense of the Possible: David Ray Griffin on Levitation
  74. Whitehead Nerd Quiz
  75. ​We are All Made of the Same Water: Bob Mesle
  76. Interior Freedom: Becoming Unstuck
  77. Does the Universe Enjoy Itself? Whitehead's Aesthetics of Self-Enjoyment
  78. I am Strong - Jesus is Woke - Cursed are the Meek
  79. Non-Neural Minds: A Whiteheadian Imagination
  80. ​​Concrescence Beyond the Brain: Process Philosophy and Non-Neural Intelligences
  81. ​Who Needs a Brain? An Open and Relational Theology of Non-Neural Minds
  82. ​Plasma, Planets, and Possibility: ​Imagining Intelligence through Whitehead's Categoreal Obligations
  83. Electromagnetic Theology: Energy Fields and the Heart's Intuitive Guidance
  84. Electromagnetism: ​Laws of Nature, Cosmic Epochs, Subjectivity and Wavelengths
  85. Beyond the Unmoved Mover: Adis Duderija
  86. Everyday Provocateurs: Cynics for the Common Good
  87. Stillness and Becoming: A Process Appreciation of Hesychastic Prayer
  88. Wanting to be a Mystic: Jay McDaniel
  89. Penumbral Theology: God as a Field of Love ​
  90. Kelly Chase on UFO Phenomena: Ten Points of Contact with Process Philosophy
  91. As the Fox Chases the Rabbit, Whose Side is God On?
  92. Process Thought Helps us Live a More Abundant Life: Reflections on the 18th Process Summer Academy​
  93. Is Whitehead's Critique of ​Scientific Materialism Outdated?
  94. Whitehead's Idea of Beauty: An Invitation to Further Thought
  95. ​Tragic Beauty in Whitehead: The Dream of Youth, the Harvest of Tragedy
  96. Deeper than Joy or Sorrow: Whitehead on the Task of Theology
  97. TheoSpark: A Theological Board Game
  98. Strength of Beauty, Suffering, & ​the Merits of Imperfection: AN Whitehead
  99. Hybrid Physical Feelings: Whitehead's Groundbreaking Idea ​and Ten Implications
  100. Why not a Kinder, Gentler World? ​Whitehead's Notion of "Persuasive Agencies"
  101. ​The Metaphysics of Empathy: Vector Feelings in Whitehead's Pan-Empathic Universe
  102. Why not a Kinder, Gentler World? ​ Whitehead's Notion of "Persuasive Agencies" 
  103. The Causal Influence the Future: Anticipatory Feelings and Precognition
  104. Reasons Why I Value Process Thought: Adis Duderija
  105. Science, Creativity, and Beauty: Whitehead and Wordsworth
  106. A Gracious, Simple Mode of Life - Whitehead on the Ethical Ideal of Inclusive Love ​
  107. When Your Neighbor ​is a Christian Nationalist: A Process-Relational Approach
  108. Divine Companionship as Deep Listening: Tracy Tucker’s Can We Talk About Death?
  109. Literary Modernism: A Mood and a Movement
  110. A Feeling of Cleanliness  Whitehead on the Subjective Side of Perceived Truth
  111. ​​​Apophatic and Cataphatic Pastoral Care: An Open and Relational Approach
  112. Where is God in Pastoral Care? An Open and Relational Approach​
  113. The Gift of Perplexity: Whitehead on Plato
  114. Improvising the World Anew: Vygotsky, Whitehead, and the Spirit of Performance Activism
  115. Perplexity as Sacred Ground: Apophatic Pastoral Care
  116. Listening to the Hopes of Conservatives and Liberals
  117. God both Hidden and Unhidden: A Process Response to Tim Miller
  118. What the World Needs Now: World Loyalty & Local Love
  119. Language as a Living Practice: Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Social Therapeutics
  120. Singing with Friends: Open and Relational Musicking
  121. To Music Is to Co-Become: ​A Process-Relational Understanding of Musicking ​
  122. ​Co-Created Relational Energy: Music as Healing Balm
  123. Spiritual Warfare: The Power of Malevolent Energies
  124. ​Whitehead’s Satan: A Permanent Track in the Abyss
  125. Abide with me, Fast Falls the Eventide: Whitehead on the Metaphysics of a Hymn
  126. Two Kinds of Process Thinkers: Bohemians and System-Builders ​
  127. Little Boy Politicians: Whitehead, Jung, and the Juvenile Soul
  128. ​Civilizational Adventures: Whitehead, the Joy of Novelty, ​and a Mission to Mars
  129. ​Finding God in the Memory Café: No One Outside the Circle
  130. Youth, Zest and the Tragic Side of Life: Whitehead's Reflections
  131. ​Whitehead's Metaphysics of Zest
  132. No Experience Left Behind: Whitehead's Radically Inclusive Epistemology
  133. Tastes of Infinity: Art and the Consoling Power of Beauty
  134. Intellectual Hospitality: Whitehead's Practice of Assemblage as a Civic Virtue
  135. That Rome, That Europe: Whitehead on how History transcends Ideas
  136. A Universe with Fifteen Dimensions? Transcending Three-Dimensional Parochialism
  137. A Love that Does Not Let Go: Whitehead on the Poignancy of a Dog's Feelings ​​
  138. God’s Call to Dye My Hair Silver: On Reinvention, Longing, and the Divine Lure
  139. ​​I Believe in Mary Magdalene: A Process-Relational Approach
  140. Whitehead on Art: Ten Key Ideas
  141. Sin as a Sacred Wound: Richard Wiltshire
  142. New Traditionalists and Progressive Postmodernists: Richard Wiltshire​​​
  143. Loving Life Even in its Brokenness: Whitehead on the Intuition of Peace
  144. Scorpions in the Mind: Process Theology and Trauma ​
  145. The Pregnancy of the Abyss: How Paradise Lost Prefigures Whitehead
  146. Whitehead on the Goddess Atè: God as the Remorseless Working of Things
  147. ​​Not a Mirror but a Lure: Wittgenstein’s Gift to Process Philosophy
  148. On Being a Conservative with Roots and Wings: Leo Strauss and AN Whitehead ​  ​
  149. Whitehead on the Desire to be Famous
  150. Hamlet Concrescing: The Aesthetics of a ​Radically Inward Soul
  151. Process and Experience: Sensory and Trans-Sensory, Ordinary and Extraordinary
  152. ​Insistent Particularity: Concreteness in a World of Becoming
  153. Quiddity and ​Haecceity: Whatness and Thisness in a World of Becoming
  154. The Resilience of the Supernatural: Ross Douthat and Process Theology
  155. The Ground Beneath our Feet: David Ray Griffin on Common Sense Philosophy
  156. Phoenix Theology: A Process Philosophy in support of People Who Rise from Ashes
  157. The Wound and the Promise: The Fisher King, the Holy Grail, and Process Philosophy
  158. Moving On by Creating Beauty
  159. Three Visions of Power: Armipotence, Amipotence, Omnipotence
  160. A Sovereignty of Softness: Reimagining Empire as Love without Flags
  161. Pixies for a Better World: The Mischievous Side of Love
  162. Christ and the Fairies: Whitehead on the Multifariousness of the World
  163. ​Tone of Voice: Process Philosophy and the Sonic Side of Speech​
  164. Beyond Opsomania: Whitehead and the Aesthetics of Creative Living
  165. ​A Theology of Purple Rain: Love, Loss, and Lure of Intensity
  166. The Need to Secularize the Concept of God: Alfred North Whitehead
  167. Y'all: An Open and Relational Appreciation of Complex, Composite Selfhood
  168. They Hear my Words but Not my World: From Logocentric to Relational Listening
  169. God only Knows ​What I'd Be Without You: How Love Shapes Our Lives
  170. The Basis of Experience is Emotional: Feeling the Moods of Others
  171. ​Throbs of Emotional Energy: Whitehead's Idea that the Universe is Alive with Desire and Feeling ​​
  172. Beyond Systems and Patterns: Respect for Individuals as Self-Creative Subjects
  173. Peaceable Kingdom: Art, Prayer, and Practice
  174. Religion without a Personal God: The Non-Theistic Strand of Process Theology
  175. Nihilism, Martin Heidegger, the Kyoto School, and Process Philosophy: Dr. Edgar Blanco Carrero
  176. An Evolving Torah from an Evolving God: Dr. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
  177. I Pray before I Vote: The Open and Relational Legislator
  178. Mindful Metaphysics: Head, Hands, and Heart
  179. The New Traditionalism: Converts to Orthodoxy as an Ocean of Possibility
  180. Musicking: Music as a Dynamic, Relational Event
  181. Five Quail Eggs: Tilly Woodward and the Art of Small Things
  182. Practical Skills Therapeutic Education: For Children and Adults with Learning Challenges
  183. The Moving Image of Eternity: Whitehead on Michelangelo
  184. Stillness and Swirling: Permanence and Flux in Whitehead's Philosophy
  185. Comedy as Dislocated Desire: Molière and Whitehead
  186. Cross-Cultural Education and the American Soul: Toward an America that Listens Again​
  187. Whitehead and Augustine on Freedom: Maria Lupe Llanes
  188. What is a Unicorn? The Ontological Status of Imagined Realities
  189. Bob Dylan as Secular Psalmist: His Fifty Best Songs
  190. God in the Operating Room: Process Theology and Surgery
  191. There Is No Right Answer: Process Theology and Sophie's Choice
  192. ​Queerfully & Wonderfully Made: Vikki Randall
  193. Brokenhearted Love: A Process Interpretation of Divine Wrath
  194. Dragon Fruit: A Philosophical Theology
  195. Are Some People Not Worth Grieving For? The Theology of Cruelty
  196. ​​Theology in a Fast Car: I had a Feeling I Could Be Someone​
  197. We Are Family: Theology You Can Dance To
  198. Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Intense: The Byronic Hero
  199. Reimagining Christ for an Evolving World: ​Austin Roberts
  200. Learning to Live in My Body An Open and Relational Approach
  201. Universal Love as a Plasmatic Field: A Theology of the Spirit in Motion
  202. The Cambrian Explosion and Process Theology: ​We, Too, are an Experiment.
  203. A Turning toward Love: From Process Theology to Relational Wisdom
  204. ​Beware the Self-Satisfied CHINO (Christian In Name Only)
  205. Peace be with You: ​The Amipotent Spirit of Pope Leo's First Words​
  206. I want Satisfying Work and I want to Help People: A Relational Theology of Work
  207. Antarctic Moments: The Hidden Beauty of Silence and Solitude
  208. Open and Relational Kali: The Wildness of Divine Love​
  209. The Plasmatic Personality: Living with Charged Aliveness in a Solid-Seeming World​​
  210. Seeds of Hope in a Time of Need: Micro-Communities, Relational Fields, and Ecological Civilization​​​
  211. From Faust to Francis: Reimagining Ambition in a World Becoming​​
  212. The Contentious Marriage of Christianity and Capitalism:: Can It Be Annulled?​​
  213. Whitehead and Leo Strauss: Eternal Ideals, Philosophic Humility, the Crisis of Modernity, and the Re-enchantment of Nature​
  214. Open and Relational Catholicism: A Possibility Waiting to Happen
  215. ​Trump Paganism versus Christian Compassion​
  216. How Moods Disclose the World: Heidegger and Whitehead in Conversation
  217. ​The Whiteheadian Flea Market: Where Possibility Meets Pre-Loved Actuality
  218. The Shoreline Walks Me: Beachcombing as a Spiritual Practice ​
  219. The Three Little Pigs: A Process Theology
  220. Using Traditional Language​ in a Process Way
  221. ​Reimagining Supernaturalism​: Whitehead, Novelty, and the Living Cosmos​
  222. ​Green Grace: Finding God in Houseplants
  223. Carrying On as a Spiritual Practice: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  224. Creation out of Nothing Reimagined: Process Philosophy and the Primordial Decision of God​
  225. ​Cosmic Dust and Tenderness: Galactic Evolution and Sentient Life​
  226. Where the Light Falls: On Chickens, Compassion, and Animal Subjectivity
  227. Sometimes Omnipotence means Infinite Love: A More Expansive Process Theology
  228. ​Our Joyful, Welcoming Pope: Pope Francis' Spiritual Teachings​
  229. Beyond Semantic Absolutism: Why Process Thinkers need Wittgenstein
  230. ​We Who Mop: Dignity and Divine Presence in Domestic Labor​
  231. ​A Theology of Cruelty: The Moral Meltdown of the United States​
  232. Theology Mapped and Glimpsed: Big Ideas and Sideways Glances
  233. Why Play Still Matters When the World is Falling Apart
  234. ​Process Theology of Cat Lovers​
  235. Finding God in Quiet Moments: A Process Theology of Mindfulness
  236. ​Taking Care of My Mother: Process Theology and Caregiving
  237. ​​World-Making and Sonic Space: A Process Reflection on Sound Objects​
  238. Missing my Daughter: Process Theology and Grief ​
  239. ​​The Lure to be Curious: Process Theology and Lifelong Learning
  240. Process Theology for People in Recovery
  241. Process Theology for Caregivers​​​
  242. Process Theology for People Who Talk To Trees​
  243. Process Theology for Dog-Lovers
  244. Planting Seeds: Sermons as Lures for Feeling
  245. ​Thrift Store Dandyism as a Metaphysical Performance​
  246. ​​Thrift Store Mysticism: Love for what has been Softened by Time
  247. ​​Notes from a Process Gardener: Pollinator Gardens as Symbols of Hope​
  248. ​Meaning and/or Aliveness: What Are We Seeking in Life?
  249. Yearning for Beauty: ​Whitehead's Metaphysics and the Phenomenology of Desire
  250. ​Sinless Jesus? A Reflection by John Cobb
  251. ​​​It Begins by Opening the Eyes: Contemplative Prayer and the Photography of Thomas Oord
  252. ​Entangled Amipotence: A Photograph by Thomas Oord​
  253. The Whiteheadian Street Mystic: Metaphysics with Calluses on its Hands​​
  254. If Music be the Food of Love, Play On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Eucharist ​
  255. ​​​Cosmic Calligraphy: Reading Process and Reality as if ​it were written in Chinese​
  256. ​Language and the Living Earth: A Whiteheadian Exploration​
  257. ​​​Beyond the Alphabet: Process Thought Across Linguistic Worlds
  258. ​Mysticism in Many Forms: Horizontal and Vertical, Ecstatic and Everyday
  259. Replanting Yourself in Beauty: A Theology of Replenishment
  260. ​The Quaking and Shaking of Everything: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  261. After Oedipus: The Evolution of Open and Relational Theology
  262. ​Being Breathed by God: Reflections on Divine Inspiration​
  263. The Mean-ification of America™ - Making Cruelty Convenient Again
  264. Is God Personal? Reflections by John Cobb
  265. Where is the Past? A Reflection by John Cobb
  266. ​​SPARKS: An Arts Collective Rooted in Process and Possibility
  267. ​The Miraculous: A Reflection by Bradley Shavit Artson
  268. ​​Parapsychology and Miracles: Reflections by John Cobb​
  269. ​​Performing Gender: Shakespeare, ​Whitehead, and Queer Theology
  270. The Long Road of Love: Process Theology in a Time of Disillusionment
  271. ​Teilhard and Whitehead on Hope: Finding Omega in a Time of Need
  272. ​Celebrating John Cobb: An American Friend and Mentor in China (Meijun Fan)
  273. ​In Memory of John B. Cobb: Helen Zhang Haiyan (mainland China)
  274. ​Panoramic Sound Quilting: Matana Roberts and Process Thought
  275. ​Process Super-Naturalism: Beyond the Bifurcation of Natural and Supernatural​
  276. ​Embodied Prehensions: A Process Theology of Touch​​​
  277. A More Expansive Process Theology: Reclaiming Omnipotence and Supernaturalism​
  278. Local Bonds and World Loyalty: Reflections on Process and Patriotism
  279. Making Space for Omnipotence: An Appeal to Open and Relational Theologians
  280. ​Political Rhetoric:​ Whitehead, Mark Antony, and the Emotional Power of Language
  281. A More Manly Christianity: A Satirical Updating of the Gospel of Love​
  282. ​The Interior Life of an Elevator: Panexperiential Ergonomics
  283. ​​Underwear: A Theology
  284. The Emotional Life of Bees and the Polycentric Love of God​
  285. Process & Coffee: Aesthetics, Ethics, Spirituality, and Hospitality
  286. Finding Beauty in Everyday Life: Jaroslav Seifert and AN Whitehead
  287. Solidarity of the Shaken: Jan Patočka, Whitehead, and the Ethics of Contingency
  288. Csárdás and the Living Universe: Dedicated to Attila Grandpierre
  289. Living in Truth: Process Theology and Václav Havel ​
  290. ​Becoming Human, Seeking Truth: ​Process Theology and Pinocchio​
  291. ​​Jesus Denied Entry to the U.S. – Officials Cite Economic & Security Concerns​
  292. Jesus at the Infinity Pool? Luxury Resorts and the Exclusion of God​
  293. ​​The Tree of Process Thought: Three Points of Entry to the Process Movement
  294. ​Beyond Priggishness: Theology Beer Camps and Shakespeare's Falstaff​ ​​​
  295. ​Being is Becoming: Process Theology and the Wizard of Oz
  296. Serving the Common Good: Confucian Insights for American Democracy ​
  297. ​​​​​​​​Harry Potter, Hamlet, and God: Characters in our Imagination ​
  298. Official Announcement: First Annual Congressional Conformity Competition
  299. Breaking News: Congress Moves to Ban the Beatitudes as Un-American! (satire)
  300. Who Doth Love Me Most? Politics, ​the Culture of Flattery and King Lear ​​
  301. Whitehead's Theory of Value: John Cobb​
  302. Experience Everywhere: Actual Entities, Creativity, and God
  303. Divine Cytoplasm: A Fluid Presence Facilitating Communication between Cells​​
  304. Building a Cathedral ​of Love and Beauty: Teilhard and Process Philosophy ​​​​ 
  305. ​Breaking News: Compassion Takes Official Leave of Absence from Government​ (satire)
  306. Executive Order from the President: Termination of Employment for Jesus of Nazareth
  307. Jesus was Bad for America - So we had to fire him (satire)​​
  308. Jesus Visits the King's Palace: Too Much Opulence​​
  309. Resilience & The Prickly Pear Heart: Nita Gilger​​
  310. Ordering Desires and Love: Thomas Jay Oord
  311. ​Praying for the Villain: Shakespeare, Process Theology, and Transformative Love​
  312. ​Becoming a Pocket of Grace: Creating Light in a Transactional World
  313. ​Gardening Through the Apocalypse: ​A To-Do List for February
  314. ​​The Cosmic Lure of Love: Teilhard, Whitehead, and the Evolution of Sympathy
  315. Pity the Pompous Prig: God as a Lure to Dance
  316. Moments of Omega: A Thank You Note to Teilhard de Chardin​​
  317. Sun Ra, Whitehead, and a Cosmic Philosophy of Sound
  318. ​You're Absolutely Right! How to become a Political Sycophant​
  319. The Present Storm: Echo Chambers, Sycophancy, and the Will to Power
  320. The Wise and Loving Fool: Christianity and the Courage to Challenge Kings
  321. The Disaster of Shutting Down USAID: J.D. Gingerich​
  322. The Fossil Mystic: A Process Theology of Trilobites​​
  323. ​​Kindness, Beauty, Creativity: The Mood of Process Philosophy
  324. I, Too, am a Wanderer: A Process Theology of Asteroids
  325. The Stalinization of America: Seeking a Christian Alternative
  326. ​Deconstructive Populism: The Visceral Delight of Tearing Things Down
  327. Divine Love-Energy: Ten Ways to Participate in the Flow of Amipotence
  328. ​Humanities Orchards: Creativity and Curiosity in the Local Church​
  329. ​The Road less Travelled: A Christian Politician's Journey beyond Self-Deception
  330. Banquo's Silence:​ Misplaced Loyalty, Servile Flattery, and the Erosion of Dignity​
  331. A Ruthless, Insecure King: Insights from Freud and Whitehead
  332. ​Send in the Clowns: A Process Theology of Playful Resilience
  333. ​A Sanctuary of Listening: Hospitality as the Heart of the Church​
  334. ​Hegel and Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection
  335. What does Leadership Sound Like? Marian Anderson Singing at the Lincoln Memorial​
  336. ​Amipotence with or without God: Living Options in Open and Relational Theology
  337. ​​The Politics We Need: Love, Relationality, and the Amipotent Vision
  338. Emotional Communities: Human, Microbial, Galactic, and Divine
  339. ​Let's Ban Shakespeare: A Christian Call to Action​
  340. ​The Pleasures of Holy Anarchy: Appreciating the Theology of Graham Adams
  341. God as Infinite Receptivity: Dombrowski’s Friendly Amendment to Oord’s Theology
  342. ​A Walk in the Woods: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  343. From Transaction to Transformation: Rethinking Atonement with Nichole Torbitzky
  344. ​God Beyond the Solid: Divine Love as a Relational Field whose Body is the Universe
  345. Solid Bodies Colliding in an Event-Based Ontology
  346. From Solids to Events: Condensed Matter Physics and Whitehead’s Philosophy ​
  347. ​Jimmy Carter: Faith in Action​
  348. ​Geometry and Spirituality: A Theology of Points and Lines
  349. Love, Beauty, and Surprise: The Triad of Process Thought
  350. ​I Didn't Expect That: A Process Theology of Surprise
  351. ​Sacred Rhythms in Daily Life: Finding Balance in a Frenzied World​
  352. Diamonds, Rust, and Gratitude: Process Theology and Joan Baez
  353. ​Sound, Chaos, and the Creativity: The Avant-Garde Music of Iannis Xenakis
  354. The Widening Effect: John Cobb’s Legacy of Imagination, Compassion, and Hope
  355. Studying Whitehead's Process and Reality with John Cobb: A Reminiscence
  356. John Cobb's Guidance: His Vocation, Lifestyle, and Sense of God's Love
  357. Constructive Political Leadership: A Whiteheadian-Shakespearean Approach
  358. ​Warrior Morality vs. the Way of Jesus: Leading by Moral Example
  359. Teach us To Feel: What Extraterrestrials May be Looking For ​
  360. Meaningful Coincidences & Signs from God: Process Theology and Synchronicities
  361. ​This is What Babies Do: O Come Let us Adore Him​
  362. Play, Grace, and Laughter: A Process Theology of Humor
  363. ​A Refusal to be Detached: Reflections on Divine Bathos
  364. ​Three Types of Process Philosophy: Speculative, Experiential, and Mathematical
  365. Perpetual Perishing and Beauty: The Wild Swans of Coole by WB Yeats​
  366. Shakespeare in Prison: Process Theology in Action
  367. Cosmic Epochs, Alternative Worlds, and Inter-Epochal Communication
  368. Praying to the Stars: Amipotence and Intercessory Prayer
  369. Two Friends Beneath the Stars: God as the Heart and Whole of the Universe
  370. ​Enduring a Toothache: Empirical Process Philosophy​
  371. Process and Memory: The Experience of Pastness​​
  372. Jingle Bells and Gentle Tears: The Metaphysics of Listening to Holiday Music
  373. Love and Mystery​: ​Heidegger's Critique of Metaphysics as a Challenge to Whitehead​
  374. Oceans of Possibility: Creative Genealogy and the China Project of CPS
  375. Spirit, Planet, Galaxy: The Expanding Boundaries of Human History
  376. What is & What Can Be: Process Philosophy & Les Misérables​​​​​
  377. ​The Dense Fog of Sycophancy:  ​Process Theology, Jesus, and Integrity in Political Life​​
  378. Shared Earth, Shared Kinship: Renewing Our Relationship with Animals​​
  379. Biopoetic Crickets: Process Theology and the Enjoyment of Chirping
  380. You Must Cultivate Your Garden: Candide's Advice to the Metaphysician​
  381. ​​Weaving Shadows: Process Philosophy in Conversation with Freud
  382. ​Out of Eden: Process Theology and John Milton's Paradise Lost
  383. ​Restless Hearts and Dynamic Grace: Augustine and Process Theology​
  384. Faith and Reason: Enfilade and Mise en Abyme ​
  385. Going to Sleep while Reading: The Cognitive and Spiritual Value of Liminal States of Mind​
  386. The Unseen Embrace: A Process Theology of Gravity
  387. ​The Antikythera Mechanism: Process Theology, Engineering, ​and the World's First Computer​
  388. Process Theology and the Trump Movement: Reimagining Six Trumpian Themes
  389. Rain: A Poem by Nita Gilger
  390. ​I Want to Bathe in the River of Beauty: A Poem by Patricia Adams Farmer
  391. The Enemy of our Better Selves: A Process Theology of the Devil
  392. Small but Tough People: Thriving in Inhospitable Circumstances
  393. ​Walking with Wordsworth: Finding Sanctuary in Green Spaces
  394. Awareness-Based Systems Change: Process Philosophy, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
  395. ​​Filial Piety and Eco-Piety: Process Confucianism
  396. ​Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Courage to Acknowledge Flaws
  397. The Galilean Vision: Following Jesus in an Age of Ruling Caesars​
  398. ​Lead us not into Sleaziness: Process Theology & The Charlatan
  399. ​Co-Creating a Flourishing World: Mindful Metaphysics, Theory U, and Participatory Learning
  400. After the Election: ​Yearning for a Culture of Listening​
  401. The Humility of True Heroes: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Process Perspective
  402. Antigone: A Young Woman's ​Search for Justice
  403. The Flying Elbow Drop: A Process Reflection on Professional Wrestling​
  404. Your Hero is My Villain: A Lesson from Shakespeare
  405. Living Earth Wonder Clubs: An Imaginary Network of Earth-Amazed Families and Friends
  406. Theo-Fandom: Beyoncé, Harry Potter, and Process Philosophy​
  407. Weaving Emotions, Weaving a World: Concrescence and Catharsis
  408. A Visceral Sense of Doom: Whitehead and Sludge Metal
  409. Panexperiential Theology: A Living Cosmos and the Perpetual Newness of God​
  410. Romantic Banter as Embodied Metaphysics: Whitehead's Philosophy in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
  411. The Polymorphous Self: Identifying with Animals and Mythical Creatures
  412. Us versus Them: Competitive Sports, Partisan Politics, and Process Philosophy
  413. The Myriad-Minded Soul: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and the Enjoyment of Contrasts​
  414. Authenticity and Morality: A Short Note on Heidegger and Whitehead
  415. The Politics of Scowling: Core Characteristics of the Fascist Personality​
  416. Whitehead, the I Ching, and the Suchness of Pure Potentialities​
  417. A Deeper Dive into Whitehead: The Eight Categories of Existence plus Creativity and God​
  418. ​Wordsworth and Whitehead​
  419. Chinese and American Friendship: Practicing Process Philosophy in a Chinese Kitchen
  420. Social Therapy and Social Therapeutics: Creating Performative Spaces where Life can Flourish​
  421. The Garden as an Inclusive Learning Center: A Zone of Proximal Development​
  422. ​The Instrumental Value of Chaos: Whitehead, John Milton, and Satan in Paradise Lost
  423. The Universe as a Theatrical Event: Co-Creativity, Improvisation, and Polydrama
  424. Embracing the Many: A Mysticism of Multiplicity ​
  425. No Need to Decide: Process Philosophy and the need for Cognitive Flexibility
  426. All Actual Entities Matter to Themselves: The Ontology of Self-Enjoyment in Whitehead's Philosophy​
  427. ​A Taste for the Infinite: Schleiermacher, Process Theology, and the Sublime
  428. The Creative Void: ​Exploring the Metaphysics of Empty Space
  429. Whitehead, Wormholes, and the Longing for Cosmic Connections
  430. ​The Enigmatic Cesario: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of Fluid Gender Identity in Twelfth Night
  431. ​Improvisational Learning: Vygotsky, Whitehead, and the Zone of Becoming
  432. Qualities of a Needed Political Leader: Analytic Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Love Intelligence
  433. Play, Process, and Possibility: The East Side Institute  ​
  434. Bertolt Brecht: A Process-Oriented Marxist Poet and Playwright
  435. More than Entertainment: Art's Role in Creating Just Communities 
  436. Aging in a New Key: The Spiritual Benefits of Learning an Instrument in Later Years
  437. ​Hyper-Masculinity and Militarism: Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Process Perspective ​
  438. The Global Process Community: A River with Twelve Tributaries​
  439. From Fragmentation to Flourishing: Uniting the Process Community
  440. Whitehead on Civilizations, Ecological and Otherwise: Philip Clayton
  441. Theatre of the Ordinary: Anton Chekhov & The Quiet Dignity of Unrealized Dreams​
  442. Decisions Made in Rage: Medea's Revenge
  443. Lived Geometry: The Experience of Space in Process Philosophy
  444. The Creative Cosmos Collective
  445. To Whitehead: An Active Verb 
  446. The Puckish Side of God: Toward a Process Theology of Mischief
  447. A Midsummer Night's Entanglement: Shakespeare, Whitehead, and Freud 
  448. The Mind of a Mathematician: A Whiteheadian Approach
  449. Relationality and the Ethic of Loving Attention: Judith Jones and Iris Murdoch
  450. Iago's Motives: Whitehead and Shakespeare on the nature of a Villain
  451. When God becomes a Bromide:​ Process Theology Beyond Platitudes
  452. The Desire to be Relevant and Remarkable
  453. The Receptacle as Creativity: Whitehead and Faber
  454. The Cosmo-Mythic Imagination and Many Worlds: Whitehead and Faber
  455. The Mind of Whitehead: Roland Faber​
  456. Virginia Woolf and Alfred North Whitehead: Veronika Krajíčková ​and the Living Earth​​
  457. Theology in Moments of Time: Tori Owens, Jay McDaniel​
  458. It's the Little Things Sometimes: Nita Gilger
  459. Apotheosis: The Reformation and Divinization of the World in God's Ongoing Life​
  460. Process Philosophy and Shakespeare: A Seminar
  461. ​Sentience all the Way Down? John Pohl's Theology of the Microbe 
  462. Open and Relational Music Makers: Many Genres, One Love​​​
  463. Beneath the Surface: A Process Theology of Jellyfish
  464. The Metaphysics of Pain & Whitehead's Philosophy of Feeling
  465. To My Israeli and Palestinian Friends: Letter from a Process Theologian
  466. ​​​Being a Non-Anxious Presence as a Way of Imitating God
  467. ​​Whitehead's Idea of the Superject: Theory and Applications
  468. The Subject as Superject: Constructive Superjecting as a Way of Life
  469. ​Process Philosophy and the Performing Arts: Points of Connection
  470. The Art of Holding Up a Mirror: What Process Philosophy can learn from Shakespeare
  471. Neologistically Speaking: Whitehead's Creative Use of "Concrescence"
  472. Beyond Consciousness: Understanding Whitehead's Concept of Experience​
  473. Prehensions and the Solidarity of the Universe: Whitehead's Proposal
  474. ​Beyond Process: The Everlasting and Eternal Elements in Whitehead's Philosophy​
  475. From Disgust to Dialogue: Moving Beyond the Emotional Tug of Political Polarization​
  476. Eternal Objects and ​the Dynamics of Process: Exploring Whitehead's Philosophy of Pure Potentialities​
  477. ​Cognition and Concrescence: Process Reflections on the Many Ways of Knowing
  478. ​Mathematics and Emotion: Whitehead’s Categories of Existence and Interdisciplinary Studies
  479. ​​An Open and Relational Church: Eight Ways of Knowing God
  480. Divine Presence: Ten Forms of Inwardness​
  481. The Problem with being Anti-Metaphysical
  482. ​Christians Against Trump and Christians Against Trump: A Quiet, Growing Movement
  483. Some Metaphysical Missteps (to which metaphysical enthusiasts are prone)
  484. ​It is the Mending that Matters: Process Theology, Trauma, and Second Chances
  485. ​The Nothing that's become Something: ​Jonathan Foster
  486. The Falstaffian God: Embracing Life’s Richness
  487. A Quiet Platonism: The Fibonacci Sequence and Whitehead's Concept of Ingression
  488. ​Jesus the Yanker: Free Radicals and Antioxidants
  489. ​​Compassionate Inter-Becoming: The Bodhisattva Vow and Process Theology​
  490. ​Changing your Mind for God's Sake: Oath Taking and Oath Breaking
  491. ​Imagining the Universe as a Cosmic Learning Community
  492. ​To the Church of my Youth: Where did You Go?
  493. Beyond Clarity and Moralizing: A Place for Productive Ambiguity in Theology
  494. Unblaming God: Discovering Divine Tenderness Beyond Tragedy​ ​
  495. Our Ass Doesn't Laugh: Political Theatre and A Midsummer Night's Dream​​​​
  496. The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream​​​​
  497. Death is a Kind of Gravity: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  498. ​​The Value of Unresolved Tensions: Whitehead's Philosophy and Hamlet's Inner Life​​​
  499. Will Whitehead be Read a Hundred Years from Now? Yes, and here's how.
  500. Mystery and the Sailing Rocks of Death Valley: Nita Gilger
  501. ​Self-death as a Symbol of Radical Freedom: Farhan Shah
  502. Reading Whitehead/Reading Shakespeare
  503. ​We are Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Whitehead, Shakespeare, and Political Theatre​
  504. Ten Teachings of Process Zen: Inspired by Dainin Katagiri Roshi
  505. ​The Process is You: The Zen Teachings of Dainin Katagiri Roshi
  506. Finding the Gospel in the Cerulean Sea: Vikki Randall
  507. ​Why I Put Down my God-is-Dead Flag: Jay McDaniel​
  508. ​Oughtism: The Rigid Moralist​
  509. The Post-Human Self: The Microbial Side of Human Life​
  510. ​Napping for a Better World: The Liberating Vision of Tricia Hersey
  511. Onto-Fugitivity, Post-Activism, and Deep Listening: Báyò Akómoláfé
  512. The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down: Báyò Akómoláfé​
  513. Home-Grown Process Theology: Personalized, Accessible, Mindful, and Adventurous
  514. Let Them Run Outside When It's Raining: Ecological Civilization and Nature-Based Play​
  515. Can Generous Listening help Heal the World? 
  516. ​Saving Mozart: Ecological Civilization, Classical Music, AI, and Process Theology
  517. From Amipotence to Ecopotence: De-sentimentalizing Divine Love through Ecology​
  518. The Madness of American Politics: A Prayer for Coping
  519. The Present Moment is Holy Ground: A Process Zen Reflection
  520. ​Religion with Wings: A Process Theology of Imagination
  521. No Ideas but in Things: William Carlos Williams
  522. ​Ambition or Integrity: The Politician's Dilemma
  523. ​Navigating the Crossroads: ​Integrating Christian Process Thought and Zen Buddhism
  524. ​I think the Earth Remembers Me: Hiking as a Spiritual Practice​
  525. Moral Outrage, Resentment, and Self-Righteousness: Buddhism and Forgiveness
  526. Helping Others Flourish: A Process Theology of Butterflies
  527. ​Blow the Door Open: John Donne, Process Theology, and the Divine Lure​
  528. ​The Tiny Philosopher of Wonder: Patricia Adams Farmer​​
  529. A Review of Bruce Epperly's "The God of Tomorrow"​
  530. The Universe as an Artistic Activity: Process Philosophy and Art
  531. Luring Love: Process Theology and the Therapeutic Value of AI Companions
  532. ​The Desire to be Immersed in Beauty: ​Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man​
  533. The Feeling of "If" - Gertrude Stein and Alfred North Whitehead​
  534. Process and Music: Twenty Key Ideas
  535. Six Roles of the Artist in an Ecological Civilization ​
  536. Let the Last Word be Love: A Sermon for Pride Month by Vikki Randall
  537. ​Of God and Squash Bugs: Living with ​​an Anthropocentric Bias
  538. ​There's Been a Change of Plans: Non-Compulsive Planning in Process Zen
  539. A Whole Universe of Stories: Patricia Adams Farmer, Sallie McFague, and Teilhard de Chardin
  540. How Does it Feel? A Theology of Vibes
  541. ​The Fallacy of Misplaced Divinity: Confusing Winds of the Spirit with Ideas about God 
  542. ​Return to the River of Belonging: Patricia Adams Farmer
  543. Let Love be the Judge: Oord Responds to Charges Pending Trial for Queer Affirmation​
  544. You Should be Dancing: Process Theology and the Bee Gees​​
  545. The Basis of Relational Mysticism: ​Simple Physical Feelings​​
  546. A Yearning for Intensity: Whitehead's Notion of Contrasts​
  547. Is the Smartphone more Useful than God? Process Theology in a Digital Age​​​
  548. The Sanctuary of Openness: Rebecca Ann Parker on Faith without Grasping
  549. ​​Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. Zen Meditation and Process Theology
  550. ​​Changing without Moving: The Metaphysics of Actual Entities
  551. ​​All Creatures Great and Small: Relations with Animals as Relations with God​​
  552. I am Curious: Process Philosophy and ​the Polymath Sensibility
  553. ​Process & Discernment: Pulled in Many Directions, Listening for Initial Aims from God
  554. Do Open and Relational Thinkers Talk about God Too Much? Yes, sometimes.
  555. ​Inclusive Community: Phil Ochs, Process Theology, Church of the Village
  556. Singing Old Hymns in New Ways: Jay McDaniel and Al Gephart​
  557. Chinese and American Farming Friends: Wendell Berry and Yan Shi ​​
  558. Saving God: Tripp Fuller's Christology and Christ the Bodhisattva​
  559. If God is Omnipresent, ​Why Go to Church? Notes on an essay by Casey T. Sigmon
  560. The Rapture of Being Alive: Two Hymns by Sheri Kling
  561. The Grace of the Empty Tomb: Notes on a sermon by Nichole Torbitzsky
  562. ​The Craziness of Christian Love: Notes on a Prayer by Vikki Randall
  563. Embracing the Moment: A Buddhist Perspective on Open and Relational Theology ​
  564. ​Wisdom and Mindfulness: Embracing Open and Relational Theology Without Succumbing to Ten Temptations​
  565. Wonder and Novelty: A Wild, Grassroots Version of Process-Relational Thought​
  566. Climate Change and the Liberal Arts: Music and Printmaking for the Earth Community
  567. ​Digital Humility: From Social Media Exhibitionism to Community-Centered Connectivity
  568. The Last Flight of a Disappointed Mosquito: ​Divine Love in Small Things​
  569. ​The Red Wheelbarrow: ​The Place of Particulars in Metamodern Religion​
  570. Leaning into Withness: A Whiteheadian Reflection on a Sermon by Jonathan Foster
  571. Flourishing: An Open and Relational Pneumatology
  572. ​A Sermon is Co-Created: Listening to a Sermon with an Open and Relational Heart​
  573. Cosmic Awakenings: Andrew Davis on a Universe of Value​
  574. Quiet Unpretentious Love: Beyond Envy, Comparisons, and Social Media Compulsions
  575. Eclipse Theology: Ten Questions for Reflection
  576. ​God after Deconstruction for Christians influenced by Buddhism​
  577. Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian God: Multiple Ultimates​
  578. Emptiness and Abba: Zen (Metamodern) Christianity​
  579. Can God Laugh? Ten Forms of Divine Laughter
  580. Planting Seeds of Hope: A "Process Theology" Coloring Book​
  581. Love, Betrayal, and Forgiveness: A Process Theory of the Atonement 
  582. ​The Jewish Jesus & Jewish Process Theology: An Introduction​
  583. Job and Whitehead: Making Space for Vagueness and Confusion
  584. Christian Process Theology and Metamodernism: Springboards for Conversation
  585. ​There is no Divine Plan and It Should Have been Otherwise: 20 Days in Mariupol
  586. Vastness and Beauty: Sixteen Reasons to Love the Night Sky
  587. Dogs, Gardens, Donkeys, and Children: An Organic Family ​for the Common Good
  588. Praying to Jesus: A Metamodern Possibility?
  589. ​Non-Mysticism: ​Letting the World Be Itself ​
  590. Joyful Spirits of the Universe: Everything is Made of Emotions
  591. Holy Now, The Music Plays On: The Lasting Legacy of Len Delony
  592. Relational Power in Theory and Practice: Mesle and McDaniel
  593. Three Dimensions of Relational Power: Mesle and McDaniel​
  594. The Shadow of Your Wings: A God Who Migrates
  595. Cemetery Care: A Process Practice​
  596. The Coming Solar Eclipse: An Astronomical Altar Call
  597. ​Elegy for my Mother's Mind: Laura Van Prooyen
  598. ​Backward Miracles: Reclaiming the Single Loaf of Bread
  599. ​The Potato as Mystic: So Much Happens Underground
  600. Fidelity to the Lure of Divine Creativity: Jared Morningstar
  601. ​​​​​"I'm Done with It." Ten Options to the Modern World​​​
  602. Moody, Creative, Rebellious, Loving: ​Process Philosophy and the Byronic Hero​
  603. The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Spirituality for Nones
  604. Aliens, UFOs, and Cosmic Religion: ​Process Philosophy and a New Religious Consciousness​​
  605. Open and Relational Atheism: An Affirmation of Life​​
  606. The Gambia Academy: Education for "Ecological Civilization" in Post-Colonial Africa​​
  607. Differences Make the Whole Richer: Interreligious Dialogue as the Enjoyment of Lived Beauty​
  608. East-West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization: Highlights from International Webinar​​​​​
  609. ​Process Zen: Being Present in the Moment​
  610. From the Ground Up: Teaching Process Thought to Children through Home Gardening
  611. Taylor Swift and Process Philosophy: ​A Submission to the Taylor Swift Swiftposium
  612. Imagining a Plant as a Huge Brain: Plant Metaphysics
  613. ​Starting a John Cobb Home Garden: Healing Action for a World in Need
  614. The Real Culture War: Authoritatives and Nurturers​​​
  615. A Stick is a Stick: The Metaphysics of Zen Christianity​
  616. John Cobb: My Frugal, Visionary Mentor
  617. You Sure Say "Ought" a Lot! ​The Problem of Excessive Preachiness​
  618. The Religion of Tomorrow: Ilia Delio and Process Theology​
  619. Blessing the Water Snakes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  620. ​We Move with the Music: Living with Dementia​
  621. Reimagining Dementia with help from Process Theology
  622. The Open and Relational Voice: Maria Callas and Process Theology​
  623. Respect for Elders and Respect for the Earth - Process Confucianism
  624. ​The Significance of Being Polite in Daily Life: Process and Confucianism​
  625. ​Moral Anaesthesia: Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
  626. ​Whitehead on God: Six Passages from Process and Reality
  627. Octavia Butler and Alfred North Whitehead: Springboards for Reflection​
  628. Iain McGilchrist and the Widening of Attention: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  629. ​The Joy of Having Curious Students: A Lesson from Confucius
  630. Zen, Novelty, and Suchness: Ultimate Reality in a Cup of Tea
  631. Three Faces of Ecological Civilization
  632. Is Negative Five an Eternal Object? A Young Girl in Rural China 
  633. ​Purpose in Human Life: L. Charles Birch
  634. ​Process Thought: An Introduction by Ian Barbour​
  635. ​​Reinventing Yourself: Process Theology and David Bowie
  636. ​Lighting Candles as Prayer: Lifting Things Up to the Light of the Universe​
  637. ​Finding Your Inner Banjo: A Process Theology for Pluckers
  638. ​Becoming a Whole Person
  639. ​God as Interpoint: Symbolic Logic as a Tool for Process Theology
  640. ​Teilhard's Fire: Donald Viney
  641. Bereaved Parents: Rebuilding Lives After a Suicide Loss (Farhan Shah)
  642. Knowing without Words: Whitehead and the Apophatic
  643. Faith, Hope, and Laughter: A Note on Process and Virtue
  644. ​Religion in the Making: Whitehead on Religion
  645. Religion and Science: Alfred North Whitehead​​​​​​​
  646. Mathematics and the Good: Alfred North Whitehead​
  647. Process Theology & Relations with Loved Ones after they Die​​​
  648. Healing Reactive Behavior: A Process and Jungian Approach: Sheri Kling
  649. Does P equal NP? A Mathematical Love Poem by Haipeng Guo
  650. Process and Puddings: A Culinary Approach to Process Philosophy​
  651. Yes, I can stay a while: Nita Gilger on Abiding
  652. Walking in the Air: Patricia Adams Farmer, Jay McDaniel​
  653. The Sentience of Lava: Katy Didden, Process Theology​
  654. Hiding in a Comfort Bubble: Turning Away from Suffering as a Kind of Evil​
  655. ​Making Peace with Impermanence: Whitehead and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism
  656. ​It Wasn't Meant to Be: God & the Insistent Particularities of the World
  657. ​AN ​Whitehead and Louis Zukofsky on the Meaning of "A"
  658. ​Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the Epidemic of Self-Censorship​
  659. Trusting in Nurturant Light: Worship in a Process Context
  660. ​Ecological Civilization on My Balcony: Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, and Junfeng Wang on China's Future
  661. After Your Death: We Still Talk
  662. Having Faith When Life Does Not Make Sense: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  663. ​Process Buddhism: Learning from ​Kazi Adi Shakti​
  664. From Consumerism to Ecological Civilization
  665. ​Islam and Process Thought, challenges and possibilities: Farhan Shah​
  666. How would you advise Alex? A Journey in Open and Relational Theology
  667. ​Affirming Divine Omnipotence in Islamic Process Theology
  668. Process Theology through Equations: For the Mathematically Minded​
  669. The Consolation of Stars: Their Beauty, Their Independence​
  670. ​Process Theology and the Rapture: The Passing of the Love on Earth into Heaven
  671. "The Not-Yet God" by Ilia Delio: A Reflection and Review
  672. Theology as Curiosity: Rapturous Rewards of Serendipitous Discovery
  673. Living in Love's Universe: Rumi and Process Theology​​
  674. Let's Love Each Other: Haleh Liza Gafori reciting Rumi ​
  675. ​Process Theology and Encounters of the Third Kind: David Griffin, D.W. Pasulka
  676. ​Rabbi Bradley Artson on the Israel-Hamas Conflict
  677. ​Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From Islamic fundamentalism through Atheism to Christianity
  678. Shamanism: Life ​as a Cosmic Principle
  679. From the Place Where We Are Right Flowers will never Grow in the Spring: ​Yehuda Amichai
  680. ​The Fuller-Oord Project: Claiming Doubt as Part of Faith
  681. The Unmoved Mover of Process Theology: Changing without Moving​
  682. ​Have a Good Day and Get a Good Night's Sleep: Circadian Theology in Process Perspective
  683. ​An Eccentric View of the Normal: Science Fiction, Philip K. Dick, and Whitehead
  684. After the Battle, Many New Ghosts: Du Fu's "Facing Snow"
  685. ​After Deconstruction: The Process Theology of Artist/Theologian Steve Thomason
  686. Love and Social Justice: Daniel Day Williams
  687. Alien Minds, Artificial Intelligence, Cosmotheology: Andrew Davis and Martin Rees​
  688. grieving is the longing for home: Jonathan Foster's indigo 
  689. The Courage of Mushrooms: Nita Gilger
  690. ​The Soul-Expanding Melodies of Sadness: Patricia Adams Farmer​
  691. Music as Experiential Metaphysics: Schopenhauer, Whitehead, and Mahler
  692. Not a Hug but a Bow: A Softer more Buddhist ​Side of Whitehead
  693. Radical, Non-Binary Love: Understanding the Yearnings of My Enemies
  694. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream: Pete Seeger, John Cobb, Walter Brueggemann​
  695. Beyond Petty Factionalism: The Federalist Papers and ​Originalism in Process
  696. Supporting Pockets of Hope: A Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation
  697. Ideology, Terror and the Freedom to Begin Anew: Thinking with Hannah Arendt
  698. ​Process and Plankton: Eco-Theology and Microbial Life
  699. ​The Federalist Papers: A Process Reflection
  700. The Great Sadness of God: Patricia Adams Farmer
  701. ​All People of Goodwill Must Rally: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
  702. ​​Revisioning God and the Self with help from Buddhism: Jay McDaniel
  703. Nexūs and the Logic of Relations: John Lango
  704. Creation out of Nothing? Maybe so, maybe not, what's most important is love.​
  705. Process and Populism: The Humbling of Liberal Democracy
  706. Sourdough Spirituality: Patricia Adams Farmer
  707. Process Theology and Crows: Animals as Elders and Totems
  708. ​A More Expansive Truth: Apostasy as a Spiritual Practice
  709. ​Beyond Rank and Status: William Shakespeare and Whitehead's Image of God 
  710. Withness of the Body: Process Theology and Bodily Knowing
  711. ​Beyond the Management Mentality: Whitehead's Idea of 'Importance'
  712. ​Beings are Becomings: Introducing Process Philosophy ​with help from Gerunds​
  713. God as the Poet of the World: Ten Meanings
  714. The Migration of Religion to Popular Culture: Taylor Swift and Process Theology
  715. Curiouser and Curiouser: Whitehead, Lewis Carroll, and Alice in Wonderland
  716. The End of Materialism and the Civilizational Crisis: Maria-Teresa Teixeira in Munich
  717. ​Seven Process Poets in China: Ecology, Creativity, Freedom of Self-Expression
  718. The Sublime and the Mundane: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel
  719. The Constancy of Love: Shakespeare and Charles Hartshorne
  720. The Extensive Continuum: Michael Halewood in Munich
  721. Process Poets in China: Poetry, Ecology, Creativity
  722. Camping with Kierkegaard: Hot Chocolate with J. Aaron Simmons
  723. Andrew Davis in Munich: On the Goodness of Whitehead's God​
  724. Reading Poetry in a Whiteheadian Way: Christopher Hasty's Lecture in Munich
  725. The Lure of Margaritaville: A Whiteheadian Appreciation
  726. Chinese Youth Culture: I'm Growing Vegetables on my Balcony
  727. Whitehead's Infinitely Erotic God: The Love Poetry of Richie Hofmann
  728. Omega Now: The Eschatological Resurrection of all Things within the Divine Life
  729. Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From - Book Review
  730. Places in the Heart: Final Scene and the Christian Gospel
  731. Dead Man Walking: Confession and Creative Transformation​
  732. Divine Inscrutability: Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" 
  733. Atonement: A Process Perspective
  734. The Metaphysics of Erasure Poetry: Tracy K. Smith's Declaration of Independence​
  735. The Dao of Civilization: ​A Letter to China - Freya Mathews
  736. The Process Poetry Movement in China
  737. Process Moral Education: Bangxiu Xie, Jay McDaniel, Bob Mesle​
  738. Joy Harjo and the Dream of the Earth
  739. Toward a Theology of Enzymes: God, Evolution, and Collaborative Design
  740. The Spiritual Side of Gardening: ​A Process Approach​
  741. Sex, Eros, and Love: Whiteheadian Reflections
  742. Beauty in the Darkness: Patricia Adams Farmer
  743. ​Apocalypse Coral​: God, Coral Reefs, Intrinsic Value, ​and Planet Loyalty​
  744. Strong, Independent, Assertive, Funny, and Feminist: Chaucer's Wife of Bath
  745. ​Is God in control? Reverend Barkley Thompson
  746. Ambition, Greed, Deception, and Revenge: Feudal Loyalty in American Society
  747. As John Sees It: Process Philosophy, AA, and Recovery
  748. John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
  749. O Second Moon of Jupiter, We, Too, are Made of Water: Sending Poetry to Europa
  750. ​Sonnet 73: Shakespeare and Whitehead on Love and Impermanence
  751. Welcoming our Extraterrestrial Neighbors: Process Philosophy and UFOs
  752. The Most Famous Cat in English Literature: ​Christopher Smart's Jeoffry
  753. Befriending the Planets: Ten Gifts from our Planetary Neighbors
  754. The Green Jesus is Breaking Ground: Process Christo-Poetics ​​
  755. Infinitely Tender, Infinitely Wild: Twenty-One Divine Infinities
  756. And Beauty for All: Lubarsky, Goddard, and Farmer​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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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


God: A Video

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Musician in Residence, Open Horizons


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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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Windows into Open Horizons

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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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Open Horizons