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Practicing Process Thought
Process Spirituality: A Spiritual Alphabet
Selected Articles on Literature, Film, Art and Music
Literature
The Madness of King Lear: Whitehead on the Egotistical Desire for Fame
Who is Lady Macbeth? A Process Reflection
The Passionate Transitory: Three Poems by Patrick Kavanagh
The Possibility of Rain: Jaan Kaplinsky
No God but the Good: Iris Murdoch and Alfred North Whitehead
Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: Process, Poetry, and Imaginative Feelings
Nothing Happens Twice: A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska
Physics and Fascination: Levitation and Superconductivity
For My People by Margaret Walker
Won't You Celebrate With Me: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
The Patience of Ordinary Things: Everyday Objects as a Kind of Love
To the Insects
by W. S. Merwin
Vastness: Weather Forecasts and the Mysteries of the Deep
Augustine's Lament: The Decline of Deep Reading in Digital Culture
Finnegans Wake and Process Theology
Whitehead and Emily Dickinson: A Theology
In a Station of the Metro: Ezra Pound and AN Whitehead
To Err is Human, To Pivot Divine: A Prose Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Charged Moment: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Glorious Imperatives of the Body: Whitehead and Sappho
An Avalanche of Fragments: Whitehead, T.S. Eliot, and Modernity
Beowulf Now and Then: From Warrior-Heroes to the Galilean Vision
To the New Year by W.S. Merwin: A Whiteheadian Appreciation
Inhabit Your Situation: Patricia Adams Farmer
Faith and the Entangled Life: Process Theology and Dostoevsky
The Pleasure of Exploring Possibilities: Jorge Luis Borges and AN Whitehead
Call Me Ishmael: Moby Dick and Process Theology on the Ruthlessness of God
He Who Saw the Deep: Claim your Inner Gilgames
Incompleteness: Notes on Whitehead and Kurt Gödel
The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad and Process Theology
The Weirdness of Matter: A Theology
Dante's Inferno: A Journey through the Nine Circles of Hell
The Immortality of the Nightingale: Whitehead and John Keats
At the Still Point, Where the Dance Is: T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'
Sympathy for Vile Monsters: A Theological Note on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
An Intuitive Sense of the Beautiful: John Keats on Negative Capability
Proustian Moments: The Grace of Unbidden, Nurturant Memories
Film
Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Forgiveness and Pain: Reflection on the Movie "Mass"
Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey
CODA: Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Grace Upon Grace: Babette's Feast
Don't Look Up: Spirituality and Practice Film Review
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Review by Micah Bucey
Nomadland: "I'm houseless but not homeless. I live in my van."
The Healing Power of Dance: Film Review of Farewell Amor
Fun Church: David Byrne's American Utopia
I Can't Swear Allegiance to Hitler: Review of A Hidden Life
The Ethics of Body Swapping: Film Review of Advantageous
1917: Watching War Movies as a Spiritual Practice
And Breathe Normally: A Socially Literate Film on Immigration and Friendship
Steven Universe: The Need for a Kind and Caring (Cartoon) Savior
Their Dichotomy is a Kind of Harmony: Reflections on "The Two Popes"
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Film Review
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Cave: Film Review
Ága: Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Country Music: Film Review
The Gospel of Eureka: Queerly Good News in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
How the Songs of Bruce Springsteen can Mentor a Life
Angels are Made of Light
Yesterday: A Film Review
Skin in the Game: A Film Review
Last Black Man in San Francisco: Film Review
Knock Down the House: Film Review
Facing the Buried Horrors: MIcah Busey Reviews the Horror Film US
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano): A Film Review
The Best of Enemies: Film Review
Blessed are the Caregivers: Film Review of "Diane"
HUMAN: The Movie and the Music
Black Panther: Metaphysics, Music, Plot
The Shape of Water: A Process Perspective
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
On Her Shoulders: Review of Documentary on Young Yazidi Woman, Nadia Murad
The Hospitable Soul: Less Judgment, More Chocolate
Blue Boat Home: Video by Kathleen Reeves, Photography by Thomas Oord
Visual Art
The Dynamic Depth of a Canyon Precipice: A Photograph by Thomas Oord
Becoming Someone Else: Tameka Norris and the Construction of New Selves
May I Give this Ukrainian Bread to all the People in this Big Wide World? Maria Prymachenko, Ukrainian Folk Artist
Art for Ecological Civilization: Evocations of Hope in a Time of Need
Each Horse has a Hidden Space: The Art of Ingrid Geisler
Light as a Vehicle of Feeling: The Painter Turner and the Philosopher Whitehead
Deus ex Photographia: Theopoetics from Thomas Oord
Deus ex Photographia: Four Short Theologies from Thomas Oord
Process, Beauty, and Locally Grown Power: CHERP's Vision of the Role of Art in the American Factory
Bringing Life to Life: One Role of Art in an Ecological Civilization
Artistic Creativity as Spiritual Practice: An Example from Islamic Culture
Pat Brentano: The Artist as Visual Guide for an Ecological Civilization
Give You My Breath: The Buddhist-Inspired Art of Melissa Gill
Improvisational Healing Spaces: Marilyn Biles
June Xie:
How Photography Becomes Prayer
Maxine Payne: Photographer
Marney Ward and the Tangible Presence of Light
Silence: The Art of Odilon Redon
Practical Wisdom and Nature Photography: Mary Elizabeth Moore and David Huth
Creative Writing
Whitehead and Emily Dickinson: A Theology
In a Station of the Metro: Ezra Pound and AN Whitehead
The Visual Poetry of Monica Ong: Social Justice in the Heavens
Nikki Giovanni: Poetry in Process
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps: Andrea Gibson
Whitehead on Wordsworth - Art out of Nature
The Chemistry Lab as Sanctuary: AN Whitehead on Percy Bysshe Shelley
Turning Process into Poetry: Notes on Charles Olson and Whitehead
Buddha
First Snow: Susannah Stubbs
The Mystics: Kathleen Jacobson
The Cat Lady: Kathleen Jacobson
Without Poetry, What? Finding Your Inner Ozark with help from Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Listening for Names: A Poem by Dea Jenkins
Missing Bland Crowder: Why Sustainability Needs Poetry
Where Does Such Tenderness Come From?
Ten Reasons to Like Frederick Buechner
W.B. Yeats Reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Follow Your Inner Moonlight: Notes on Allen Ginsberg and Alfred North Whitehead
280 Billion Songbirds Lost. My Grief is Complete. A Poem.
Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros: Theopoetics in Action
Reading Sacred Poetry: It Gives You Permission to Feel
Building a New Jerusalem: William Blake, Thomas Hardy, and John Cobb on Building a Post-Industrial World
Music
Music, Joy, and Divine Delight: The Bauls of Bangladesh and India
Abandoning Yourself to the Rhythm: Ecstatic Dancing and Spirit Possession
Did Jesus have a baby sister? Dory Previn
Echoes of Paradise: Finding God in Gardens and Sufi Music
Eco-Chilling for the Common Good: Eco-Planet Psychedelic Lounge Music
Culture as a Cosmic Living Organism: Kubarsy, an Avant-Garde Band from Ukraine
My Nation is on Fire, Feel the Burning: Metal Music in Ukraine
За нашою границею: New Music from Ukraine
Soothing Novelty and the Music of Calm
The Prophetic Tuba: Theon Cross and the Cobb Institute
DakhaBrakha: Crazy Homeland Harmonies from Ukraine
Your Soul is a River: Bob Mesle and the Warsaw Village Band
The Music Scene in Poland: Polish Hip-Hop and More
We, between Past and Future: Artists in Kyiv, Ukraine
Mutual Overcoming: "We Shall Overcome" in Process Perspective
Hayes Carll: The Religious Side of his Music
The Koolulam Initiative: Singing Hope Across Cultures Together
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: The Artist as Theologian and Four Hopes Provocateur
How Duke Ellington Changed my Life: George Hermanson
Slow, Emotive, and Quietly Explosive: The Eco-Electronic Music of Mei-Fang Liau
Enjoy Enjaami: South Asian Anti-Caste Hip-Hop
Eco-Electronica: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Not Governments, not Religion. Only Music can Save the World.
We've Only Just Begun: Karen Carpenter and Process Theology
Let Love Be Your Guide: Appreciating the Music of Dan and Claudia Zanes
Mongolian Hip-Hop, Whitehead, and the Globalization of Novelty
Take Me Home, Country Roads: Homesickness and the Immigrant Experience
Dancing in Uzbekistan: The Sunniest Dance on Earth
Hope Comes: The Bengsons
Jill Suttie: Music and Reflection
Practicing Guitar as a Spiritual Practice: The Online Guitar Community as Virtual Sacred Space
How Music Saves Us: Linking Science and Theology
Eli Paperboy Reed: Gospel Music for Everybody
Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" as Sacred Text
Evoking People, Animals, and Places: Gratitude to Yoik Songs and Sami Culture
Joy after Pain? The Bengsons sing Creative Transformation
Futuristic Fire Music: Moor Mother's Free Jazz as Liberation Theology
A Tree Growing out of My Chest: The Bengsons sing the Yearning
The Hallelujah Chorus and its Emotional Impact
The Metallic Side of God: Open and Relational Theology meets Heavy Metal Music
Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios
The Keep Going Song and Process Theology
Finding the "Yum" in Things: Esperanza Spalding, Process Theology, and Ecological Civilization
What does God's Breathing Sound Like? Caitlin Frasure, Delvyn Case, and New Classical Music
Theology from Sacred Music: Deus ex Musica and the Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy
Media Ecology in a Jazz Mode: Eric McLuhan, Peter Zhang
Beyond the Skinny "I": Listening for the Unexpected in Ukranian Folk-Punk of ДахаБраха
Disability and Imagination: Molly Joyce on Creative Transformation
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President
Anaïs Maviel: Without Great Black Music
Process and Hip Hop: Jon Gill
Music in W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folks"
Whitehead and Little Richard: A Hunger for Intensity, Human and Divine
All I Have to Do is Dream? Pop Harmonies as Windows to God
Music Drawn from Jewish Traditions
True Protest is Beauty: Phil Ochs, Process Theology, and Islam
Do You Think You are Superior to Us? Fatoumata Diawara
Lei Liang - A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams
Polyhymnia: Notes for a Jazz Mass
Salvation by Marimba: A Process Appreciation
Helping Those Who Can Sing but Not Speak: Melodic Intonation Therapy as Practicing the Presence of God
Man Cannot Live by Drumming Alone: A Tribute to Neil Peart of Rush
American Rage: The Piano Version
Mysteries of the Macabre: Beautifully Going Bonkers with Soprano Barbara Hannigan
Pieces that Fall to Earth: The Dome of Heaven is Made of Feathers
What the World's Religions can learn from Irish Pub Music
Thy Will be Done in Heaven Even if Not on Earth: An Appreciation of Allison Moorer's "Blood"
Keep Dreaming, Never Stop: the Psychedelic Turkish Art Rock of Gaye Su Akyol
The Korean Haegum (奚琴) and Spirituality
Neanderthal Pulsewave: Primitive Motion, Cradle of the Horizon, and Process Theology
"Spirit" by Joe Lombardi: A Song for the Earth
The San Francisco Girl's Chorus: Empowerment and Transformation through Choral Music
Idin Samimi Mofakham - آیدین صمیمی مفخم
Color Things Differently: What Christians, Jews, and Muslims can learn from Hip-Hop Country
비자아: Buddhist No-Self in a Dark and Digital World
মশ্তিষ্কের কণ্ঠশ্বর
| Voices in my head: The Sound Art of Tavishi
Pisitakun from Thailand: Experimental Electronic Music as Free Speech
The Sonic Side of Reincarnation: Listening to Death and Rebirth through Experimental Electronic Music of Sabiwa
We Live in a Terrible Time: Heavy Metal (Doom) Music as a Shot of Aliveness in an Ecocidal World
Tank and the Bangas: Theopoetic Notes
So This is What Happened to Me: Ellen Reid's Prize Winning Opera on Sexual Abuse
Elisapie - Arnaq - Reverence
Boo Bah Bah: A Daily Dose of Constructive Weirdness
Imagining the Faith of Lady Gaga: A Theopoetic Exploration
Ruth, the Song of Songs, and Brandi Carlile: Resources for a Morning Devotional
Marian Anderson: Persuasive Power as the Beautiful Voice
Wherever It Falls: New Music with Arab Roots
There's a Light Inside Us: The Power of Music for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's
The Spiritual Side of Meredith Monk: Primal Theopoetics
Black Metal Evensong: A Song by Panopticon
Becoming a Drop of Kindness: Yungchen Lhamo, Tibetan Buddhism, and Whitehead
Claiming Your Inner Mermaid: Gyða Valtýsdóttir's Evolution
Electronically Queer Heterotopias: The art of Tara Transitory and Justyna Stasiowska
Pauline Oliveros and Process Theology
Whitehead's Sonic Ontology and its Performance in Sound Poetry
Marissa Nadler's For My Crimes: The Spiritual Side
A Woman of Constant Transformation: Alice Coltrane
Rang Tang Ring Toon Theology: Interpreting a Song by Mountain Man Religiously
Seeking Joy in the Jungle: Theology from the X Ambassadors Band
Pop Songs as Postmodern Angels
What's Up, Patriarchy? Lady Gaga, Fem-Country-Punk, and the Book of Esther
Ecclesiastes in Country Music: Robert Williamson and Jason Isbell
A Little Edgy, a Little Weird: The Electronic Church and Process Theology
Electronic Music and the Face of the Deep: The Ambient Church and Process Theology
More than Frankie Cosmos? An Interview with Greta Kline
L'Rain and the Spiritual in the Secular
The One Thus Gone: A Sample of Contemporary Music Based on Buddhist Chants and Prayer
What's to Love about Top Forty Pop Music? A Theological Appreciation
Florence + the Machine: A Theology of "Big God"
The King: Elvis Presley as a Metaphor for the Rise and Decline of America
Cui Jian: The Beginning of Chinese Rock Music
My Life in Rap (So Far): Toki Wright, Remington Harris
,
and Phillip Fletcher
Music and the Sense of Being Alive: Thandeka's Affect Theology
La Santa Cecilia: Latin Culture, Rock, and World Music
Process Theology and Popular Music: A Summer Course
Sympathy for the Devil: The Transgressive Impulse in Rock Music
The Early Beatles: You Know You Should Be Glad
Don Viney: Philosopher and Musician
The Desire for Satisfaction: Thinking about Whitehead with help from the Rolling Stones
Gina Rendina: The Hunger for Collective Joy and the Calling of a Cruise Ship Vocalist
Metal Music: A Hunger for Transgressive Spiritual Spaces
Sinny Sin Sins: Songs about Sin and Thoughts about Sin
Pete Seeger on Peace, Whitehead, and the National Anthem
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
Shamanic Rock: Introducing Attila Grandpierre and the Galloping Wonder Stag
Fourth World Aesthetics: Jon Hassell and Whitehead
The Romanticism of Bjork: Paganism, Panentheism, and Biophilia
Getting Back to the Garden: The Romantic Impulse in Popular Music
I Feel Good When I Sing with Others: Group Singing as a Spiritual and Social Practice
Sufjan Stevens: Spirit of My Silence
Pop Harmonies as Windows to God: Gratitude to the Everly Brothers
Novelty Makes the World Go Round: Nietzsche, Whitehead, and Lydia Ainsworth
Crazy Metaphysics and the Joy of Being Alive: Anna Meredith and Alfred North Whitehead
The Joy of Going Bonkers: The Exuberant Music of Anna Meredith
Jazz is the Mother of Hip Hop
We Dream of Better Places: Jazz and Social Justice
Joe Davis and the Poetic Diaspora: Pentecostal Theopoetics
Polyrhythmic Theology: Drum Circles within Drum Circles
Hindi-Urdu-English: The Theopoetics of Humeysha
Islam, Jazz, and Zen: The Philosophy of
Abdullah Ibrahim
I Will Survive: The Breakup Song as Spiritual Companion
Cheer the Hell Up: The Theopoetics of David Byrne
SHE: Alice Phoebe Lou
Sludge Metal: Theological Reflections
Afghan Rap
Philosophy from the Guitar: Chris Mosley of the Grizzly Adams Family
At Last My Love Has Come Along: The Religious Significance of Popular Love Songs
Why Listen to Country Music?
Hungarian Rhapsody #2 (played by George Li)
In the Beginning is the Remixing: The Social and Theological Significance of DJ Culture
Rhythm and Blues: Intimacy and Transcendence in the Thick of Life
The Religious Side of Electronic Dance Music
Hip Hop and the Politics of Race: The Personal as Political
Finding Your Inner Banjo
Four Kinds of Holy: Jamila Woods
DAMN. - A Review by Rodney Carmichael of Kendrick Lamar's Album
"Mary" by Big Thief: Grace through Friendships
Daniil Trifonov
Loving You is Complicated: Two Ways of Conceiving God in Hip Hop Theology
By the Way, I Forgive You Kind Of: Brandi Carlile
Hip Hop Lyrics as Sacred Text: Toki Wright
Spiritual Jukebox for a Multifaith World
Sampha: The Piano as Spiritual Friend
The Religious Significance of Popular Music
Delvyn Case: Classical Christian Punk Musician
Asmaa Elamrousy: Hip Hop Hijabi
Irreversible Entanglements: Black Liberation Jazz
Ariadne: Postmodern Sacred Music (Christian)
Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism
Dancing in the Real World: Theologizing from the Site of the Flesh
The Huntress and the Holder of Hand: Creative Lamentation
Preach, Kendrick, Preach: Popular Music as Sacred Text
Sounds of the Deep: What God Heard Before the Dawn of Creation
The Sound and the Fury: Whitehead and Hardcore Punk
Irreversible Entanglements: Black Liberation Free Jazz
Ariadne: Postmodern Sacred Music (Christian)
Perfume Genius: The Coalescence of Grace, Sex, Defiance, Dread, and Erotic Power
We Learn to Improvise: Miles Davis and Process Theology
Loving You is Complicated: Comfort and Affliction in Hip Hop Theologies
Fat Soul Band and Four J's: Musicking for a Better World
Amelia Ray and Levon Helm: Music as a Portable Homeland
Music for the Elderly: Healing Benefits
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