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Having Faith When Life Does Not Make Sense: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel

Process Buddhism: Learning from ​Kazi Adi Shakti​

From Consumerism to Ecological Civilization: Corinne Hummel on Marx and Whitehead​

How would you advise Alex? A Journey in Open and Relational Theology

Islam and Process Thought, challenges and possibilities: Farhan Shah

Reimagining God as Nurturing Love: God is in the Process​

Divine Omnipotence in Islamic Process Theology: Jared Morningstar's Proposal

Process Theology through Equations: For the Mathematically Minded​

The Consolation of Stars: Their Beauty, Their Independence​

Process Theology and the Rapture: The Passing of the Love on Earth into Heaven

"The Not-Yet God" by Ilia Delio: A Reflection and Review

Theology as Curiosity: The Rapturous Rewards of Serendipitous Discovery

Living in Love's Universe while not Hiding from the Pain: Rumi and Process Theology

Let's Love Each Other: Haleh Liza Gafori reciting Rumi ​

Process Theology and Encounters of the Third Kind: David Griffin, D.W. Pesulka

Rabbi Bradley Artson on the Israel-Hamas Conflict: To my Jewish and Palestinian friends

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From Islamic fundamentalism through Atheism to Christianity

From the Place Where We Are Right Flowers will never Grow in the Spring: ​Yehuda Amichai

The Fuller-Oord Project: Claiming Doubt as Part of Faith

God as Changing without Moving: A Relational Understanding of the ​Unmoved Mover​

Have a Good Day and Get a Good Night's Sleep: Circadian Theology in Process Perspective

An Eccentric View of the Normal: Science Fiction, Philip K. Dick, and Whitehead

After the Battle, Many New Ghosts: Du Fu's "Facing Snow"​

After Deconstruction: The Process Theology of Artist/Theologian Steve Thomason

Love and Social Justice: Daniel Day Williams​

Alien Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Cosmotheology: Andrew Davis and Martin Rees​

grieving is the longing for home: Jonathan Foster's indigo

The Courage of Mushrooms: Nita Gilger

The Soul-Expanding Melodies of Sadness: Patricia Adams Farmer​

Music as Experiential Metaphysics:  Schopenhauer, Whitehead, and Mahler

Not a Hug but a Bow: A Softer more Buddhist ​Side of Whitehead

Radical, Non-Binary Love: Understanding the Yearnings of My Enemies

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream: Pete Seeger, John Cobb, Walter Brueggemann​

Beyond Petty Factionalism: The Federalist Papers and ​Originalism in Process

Supporting Pockets of Hope in a Time of Despair: A Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation

Ideology, Terror and the Freedom to Begin Anew: Thinking with Hannah Arendt

The Sky Remains: A Meditation for Anxious Times by Patricia Adams Farmer​
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Process and Plankton: Eco-Theology and Microbial Life

The Federalist Papers: A Process Reflection

The Great Sadness of God: Patricia Adams Farmer

All People of Goodwill Must Rally: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Revisioning God and the Self with help from Buddhism: Jay McDaniel

Nexūs and the Logic of Relations: John Lango

Creation out of Nothing? Maybe so, maybe not, what's most important is love.​

Process and Populism: The Humbling of Liberal Democracy

Sourdough Spirituality: Patricia Adams Farmer

The Theological Imagination of Crows: Animals as Mentors and Totems

A More Expansive Truth: Apostasy as a Spiritual Practice

Beyond Rank and Status: Shakespeare and Whitehead's Image of God as Friend

Withness of the Body: Process Theology and Bodily Knowing

​Beyond the Management Mentality: Whitehead's Idea of 'Importance'

Beings are Becomings: Process as a Philosophy of Gerunds

God the Poet: Ten Ways to think about God Poetically

The Migration of Religion to Popular Culture: Taylor Swift and Process Theology

Curiouser and Curiouser: Whitehead, Lewis Carroll, and Alice in Wonderland

The End of Materialism and the Civilizational Crisis: Maria-Teresa Teixeira in Munich​

Seven Process Poets in China: Ecology, Creativity, Freedom of Self-Expression

The Sublime and the Mundane: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel

The Constancy of Love: Shakespeare and Charles Hartshorne

The Extensive Continuum: Michael Halewood in Munich

Camping with Kierkegaard: Hot Chocolate with J. Aaron Simmons

Andrew Davis in Munich: On the Goodness of Whitehead's God​

Reading Poetry in a Whiteheadian Way: Christopher Hasty's Lecture in Munich

The Lure of Margaritaville: A Whiteheadian Appreciation

The Spiritual Side of Gardening (Chinese, English)​

A Window into Urban Chinese Youth Culture: I'm Growing Vegetables on my Balcony, It's My Spiritual Home

Whitehead's Infinitely Erotic God: The Love Poetry of Richie Hofman

Temple of Desire: The Love Poetry of Richie Hofman

Omega Now: The Ongoing Eschatological Resurrection of all Things within the Divine Life

Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From - Book Review

Places in the Heart: Final Scene and the Christian Gospel​

Dead Man Walking: Confession and Creative Transformation​

Divine Inscrutability: Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel" 

Atonement: A Process Perspective

The Metaphysics of Erasure Poetry: Tracy K. Smith's Revision of the Declaration of Independence

Erasure erasing Erasure: Tracy K. Smith's Poetic Revision of the Declaration of Independence​

The Dao of Civilization: ​A Letter to China - Freya Mathews

The Process Poetry Movement in China: Eyes of Process, Heart of Ecology, and the Pen of Freedom

Process Moral Education: Bangxiu Xie, Jay McDaniel, Bob Mesle​

Joy Harjo and the Dream of the Earth

Toward a Theology of Enzymes: God, Evolution, and Collaborative Design

The Spiritual Side of Gardening: ​A Process Approach​

Sex, Eros, and Love: Whiteheadian Reflections

​Beauty in the Darkness: Patricia Adams Farmer

Apocalypse Coral​: God, Coral Reefs, Intrinsic Value, ​and Planet Loyalty

Process Theology and Coral Reefs

Strong, Independent, Assertive, Competent, Funny, and Feminist: Chaucer's Wife of Bath

Is God in control? Reverend Barkley Thompson

Ambition, Greed, Deception, and Revenge: Feudal Loyalty in American Society

As John Sees It: Process Philosophy, AA, and Recovery

Standing and Waiting in Difficult Circumstances: John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"

O Second Moon of Jupiter, We, Too, are Made of Water: Sending Poetry to Europa

Sonnet 73: Shakespeare and Whitehead on Love and Impermanence​

Welcoming our Extraterrestrial Neighbors: Process Philosophy and UFOs

The Most Famous Cat in English Literature: ​Christopher Smart's Jeoffry

Befriending the Planets: Ten Gifts from our Planetary Neighbors

The Green Jesus is Breaking Ground: Process Christo-Poetics ​

Plastics for the Common Good: The High Calling of the Chemical Engineer

Infinitely Tender, Infinitely Wild: Twenty-One Divine Infinities

And Beauty for All: Lubarsky, Goddard, and Farmer

And God said "What's Up?" - Twenty-Five Divine Colloquialisms

Atoms as Fellow Creatures: Toward a Process Theology of the Very Small

Process Theology and the Statue of Liberty

I Might Could: Process Theology in Double Modals

Oh My Gosh!!! Process and Punctuation

"Don't Never Tell Nobody Not to Use No Double Negatives" - Process Theology and the Liberation of Language

The Yunhe Center in China: Nurturing a new generation of young Chinese with ecological mindsets and practical skills

Thinking Like a Sonnet: Little Songs as the Building Blocks of Reflection

The Fusion of Thought and Feeling: Whitehead, John Donne, and Metaphysical Poetry
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Not Religious, Not Spiritual: Whitehead on the Need to Secularize the Concept of God​

The Monkey King as Eco-Sage: From Journey to the West to Journey toward Ecological Civilization​

An Evolving Torah from an Evolving God: Rabbi Bradley Artson​

China's Monkey King: Journey Toward Ecological Civilization

Killing the Father: Process Theology, Freud, ​and Oedipus Rex

The Magic of New Meanings: Whitehead, Adventure, and the Firebird

Getting Connected: Some Opportunities in June, 2023

God as Gentle, God as Indifferent: Predator-Prey Relations in Whiteheadian Perspective

Encircling Spirit,​ Sacred Whole, and the Deep Nurturing:​ Theology without the word "God"
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Drops of Experience: Dogen, Whitehead, and Quantum Theory

Interior Freedom: Free from Inner Compulsions, Free to Listen and Love​

The Superiority of Poetry to Philosophy and Theology: Ten Ways

Process Theology, Angels, ​and Channeling: A Reenchanted World​

Setting Sail, God as Wind: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel

The Inner Life of the Cell: Process Theology and Microbiology

Panentheism: Twelve Metaphors

A Mother's Kiss as Embodied Theology: For in that Touch a Universe Resides

Bloom Where You are Planted: Practicing Ecological Civilization in Your Local Community​

I think I could turn and live with the animals: Walt Whitman and AN Whitehead​
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Turning to the Animals: Walt Whitman, AN Whitehead, and Ecological Civilization ​

Why is there a Next Moment? Whitehead's Answer: Being is Creativity

Laudato Si Film: The Pope, the Environmental Crisis, and Frontline Leaders

Becoming Otherwise: Missy Elliot, Judith Butler, AN Whitehead

The Teen Mental Health Crisis: Six Tips from an Open and Relational Youth Minister
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Process and Recovery: Family Systems, Bowen Theory, and Process Theology​

Teilhard and Whitehead: Twelve Transformations

Sonic Theology, Sonic Ontology, Sonic Epistemology: Whitehead and Sound Studies

Christological Musings, Neoplatonic and Process: Morningstar, McDaniel

Parsing Process and Traditional Theodicies: Huston Smith and David Ray Griffin ​

A Living Universe – Qi and Quantum: Introducing the Philosophy of Yuasa Yasuo

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality: An Invitation to Honesty

Julia the Whiteheadian Poet - Why Philosophers need Poetry

Kindness and Beauty as Oxygen: Nita Gilger

22.4 Trillion Digits So Far: Pi and Process Theology
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The Basileia Theou Today as Ecological Civilization: John Cobb

Process and Energy: Physical, Inter-Subjective, and Divine

From Conquering "Savages" to Global Dominance: John Cobb on the Sins of American Exceptionalism

The Spirituality of Subtraction: Becoming Minus Two

Feeling the Absence of God: Say Something I'm Giving Up on You

Love Does Not Control: Process Theology and Drug Counseling

Touched by the Tenderness: John Cobb 

Accumulating Wealth versus Following Jesus: John Cobb
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Probative and Imaginative Modes of Engagement in Buddhism and Process Thought: Kazi Shakti

Climbing Pine Mountain: Experiencing God with our Senses

The Tenderness of God's Indifference: Whitehead and the Bhagavad Gita

Process Theology for Cat Lovers​

Mindful Farming and ​ Backyard Gardening: Process Theology Embodied

Process Buddhism: Anna's Story

Open and Relational Approaches to Suicide: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

Process, Faith, and Suicide: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

Theological Hitchhiking: Learning from People with Theologies Different from your Own

Faith and Suicide: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

The Madness of King Lear: Whitehead on the Egotistical Desire for Fame

Letter from my Coach: The Coach as Process Theologian

How Big Ideas Matter: Notes on Whitehead and the Magna Carta

The Amipotent God as Amida Buddha: Thomas Oord and Pure Land Buddhism
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Process Buddhism: A Learning Circle

Waylaid by Beauty: Patricia Adams Farmer

Islamic Process Relational Theology: Adis Duderija

The Hallelujah Chorus and an Easter Prayer

Good Friday: A Moment without a Heartbeat

The Man with a Famous Frown: Mussolini and the Appeal of Authoritarianism

Can God Smile? Open and Relational Perspectives

Solon to the Rescue: A Father-Daughter Conversation on Politics

The Ethics of AI: Balancing Power and Agency in Process-Relational Approaches

God and Bon Appetit: Enthusiasm for Life as a Spiritual Virtue

Receptivity to the Muses: Divine Inspiration in Process Perspective

Hinduism in America: Jeffery D. Long

Angkor Wat: The Temple as Event

Ecological Civilization and Fun

Ramadan as a Holy and Humanistic Calling: Farhan Shah

Emptiness as Dynamic Interconnectedness and Self-Emptying: Nicole Bea Pastoukof

Ode to 'e': Euler's number as a metaphor for God

Who is Lady Macbeth? A Process Reflection​

God's Love for the Octopus: An Open and Relational Appreciation of Cephalopods​

Samantha and Michiko: Christianity and Pure Land Buddhism in Dialogue

The Kyoto School: Process Philosophy grounded in Emptiness not God

The Passionate Transitory: Three Poems by Patrick Kavanagh

The Possibility of Rain: Jaan Kaplinsky

Clinging to the Vine: Spirituality as Fortitude​

A Communicative Cosmos: Energy Transfers. Pheromones, Culture Gestures, Initial Aims

Occasions of Experience and Spots of Time: Whitehead and Wordsworth

Whitehead, Christianity, and Buddhism: John Cobb

No God but the Good: Iris Murdoch and Alfred North Whitehead

Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Process, Poetry, and Imaginative Feelings

Marc-André Hamelin: The Piano Virtuoso as Conduit for the Beautiful

Nothing Happens Twice: A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska

Juxtaposition: Nita Gilger

Physics and Fascination: Levitation and Superconductivity

For My People by Margaret Walker

Won't You Celebrate With Me: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton

Process Theology for Children: A Story and Learning Activities​

Process Philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Divine Plurality: The World as Part of God​

The Patience of Ordinary Things: Everyday Objects as a Kind of Love

"To the Insects" by W. S. Merwin

Relational Whispering? Process Theology through ASMR Videos?

Vastness: Mysticism and the Weather Channel

Augustine's Lament: The Decline of Deep Reading in Digital Culture

I Wish We Were More Confucian: What Americans can learn from Confucianism

Finnegans Wake and Process Theology

Don't Sugar It Up, Tell Your Truth, Live in the Along: Gwendolyn Brooks

The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: A Religion of Shared Humanity
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Process Theology and Dave Brubeck: Patricia Adams Farmer

Two Ultimates: Creativity and God

Swimming in Watery Depths: Whitehead, Mermaids, and Water Spirits​

God as Zest: Process Theology and the Evolution of Crocodiles

God and Earthquakes: John Cobb, Bradley Artson

Who are the Champions? Freddy Mercury and Process Theology

Does God Pivot? A Dialogue with chatGPT

What is My Vocation? John B. Cobb, Jr.

Sustainability can (and must be) beautiful: Sandra Lubarsky​

Can a Christian be a Buddhist, Too?

Whitehead and Emily Dickinson: A Theology
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In a Station of the Metro: Ezra Pound and AN Whitehead

Deep and Wide: Nita Gilger​

Unexpected Journeys: Nita Gilger

Walking Humbly with our Hominid Ancestors: Four Insights

God was in Neanderthals, Too: Walking Humbly with our Ancestors

To Err is Human, To Pivot Divine: A Prose Poem by ​Naomi Shihab Nye

The Charged Moment: ​The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Process Neo-Platonism: The Platonic Side of Whitehead's Philosophy
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Skipping Small Talk: Big Talk and the Enjoyment of Meaningful Conversations
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Women Talking/The Culture of Conversation/Forgiveness​

Gratitude for the Incomplete: At Home in the Unfinished

Praying with Animals: Jane Goodall, John Cobb, and the Church for our Common Home

The Glorious Imperatives of the Body: Whitehead and Sappho

Thank You: Practicing Gratitude in a Complex but Beautiful World

Rethinking Hell in Relational Terms

Deconstructing and Reconstructing Hell: A Process Alternative to the idea of Eternal Conscious Torment
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Process Theology: Springboards for Reflection

The Beauty of an Open-Ended Life/Tolerance for the Incomplete

Predestined to be Loved by a Nurturing God: Predestination in Process Perspective

An Avalanche of Fragments: Whitehead, T.S. Eliot, and Modernity

Beowulf Now and Then: From Warrior-Heroes to the Galilean Vision

Where is Scarborough Fair? ​Process and Folk Music

The Art of Isabelle Robinson: Process Theology in Three Images

A Process Interpretation of Islam: Farhan Shah

Seeing Colors as Sounds: Parallels between Wassily Kandinsky's Art and Whitehead's Philosophy

Social Loneliness and Ecological Loneliness: The Living Earth Movement and Process Philosophy

Social Loneliness and Ecological Loneliness: A Living Earth Approach

The Tenderness of God and Ordinary Saints: Teri Daily

To the New Year by W.S. Merwin: A Whiteheadian Appreciation

Romance, Precision, and Generalization in Education: Kathleen Gershman

Inhabit Your Situation: Patricia Adams Farmer

Beware the Sugar-Coated Jesus: John L. Farthing

O Come Let us Adore Him:​ Adoration in Process Perspective
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The Essence of Christianity: Alfred North Whitehead

The Magi by William Butler Yeats: A Process Interpretation

Christian Process Theology: Two Introductions

Christ in a Fish Bladder and a Hug: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel​

Hanukkah and Jewish Process Theology: Rabbi Bradley Artson

Trusting in Fresh Possibilities: Process Theology and Hanukkah

Van Gogh's Irises: Panexperientialism in Visual Form

Ecofeminism, Reverence for Life, ​and Feminist Theological Ethics: Lois K. Daly

Ovid's Metamorphoses: Perpetual Perishing, Continuous Change​
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A Sacramental Approach to Environmental Issues: John Habgood

Sharing Recipes as Theology: My Ukrainian Grandma's Red Beet Soup

Faith and the Entangled Life: Process Theology and Dostoevsky

The Pleasure of Exploring Possibilities: Jorge Luis Borges and AN Whitehead

What is the number Two? Whitehead's Eternal Objects, Jung's Archetypes, and Infant Psychology

Call Me Ishmael: Whitehead and Moby Dick on the Ruthlessness of God ​​

Finding Emotional Sobriety through Volunteering: A Process Appreciation

Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety: John Buchanan

Skimming and Scrolling: Are Books and Deep Reading Gone Forever?​

He Who Saw the Deep: Claim your Inner Gilgamesh

Out, In, and On the Fringe - Carol Kilby’s Journey to an Earth-Sensitive Church

Foggy Mountain Breakdown: Bright and Playful Mysticism

Pluralists, Anti-Pluralists, and Violence

The Holiness of Disappearing Species: Art by Angela Manno
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Meditating with Hildegard and her Music: Patricia Adams Farmer

Incompleteness: Notes on Whitehead and Kurt Gödel

The Evolution of Whales: Natural History as Part of God's Life

The Anger of Achilles: The Iliad and Process Theology

Wild Turkeys and Wilderness Ways: Nita Gilger

The Weirdness of Matter: ​A Theology

Thomas Oord's Idea of Divine Amipotence: God as Nurse

Dante's Inferno: A Journey through the Nine Circles of Hell

The Electron: A Theology

The Immortality of the Nightingale: Whitehead and John Keats

At the Still Point, Where the Dance Is: T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'

Bragging: A Process Reflection

Sympathy for Vile Monsters: A Theological Note on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

An Intuitive Sense of the Beautiful: John Keats on Negative Capability

Does God have an Intuitive Sense of the Beautiful? John Keats on Negative Capability

Proustian Moments: The Grace of Unbidden, Nurturant Memories

The Allegory of the Cave: A Footnote to Plato

On Being a Hero of Your own Life: Notes on James Joyce and Whitehead

Teaching the Four Hopes of Process Thought: Rev. Jennifer Zechlin
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Here I am, Lord.  I will Hold Your People in my Heart.

After the Cultural Backlash: Imagining a Process Populism

Process and Justice: The Four Hopes of the Process Movement

Hindu Process Theology: Jeffery D. Long
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Process and Alcoholism: Reflections on Recovery in Process

Giving Kids an Inner Compass: Process Theology, Parenting, Family Life, and Spirituality

Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On: Playing the Devil's Music

America's Night on Bald Mountain: Haunted by a Feral, Monstrous Mood

A Holographic Universe, a Holographic God: Hyatt Carter

Jonathan Foster, Rene Girard, and the Four Hopes of the Process Movement

After Calamity: Death of God and New Possibilities

Open and Relational Influx: How Heaven and Earth Flow Into One Another

Adventures in Imagination: Beyond Intellectual Boxes

He Was Always Thinking Afresh: Whitehead's Personality and Style

It's Good to be Alive, even while Asleep: Existential Value in Whitehead's Philosophy

Confessions of an Occasionally Boring Teacher: Twelve Principles of Holistic Education

Tragic Beauty: The Great Sadness in the Open and Relational God

Process and Education: A Montage
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Many Elephants: Appreciating Multiple Ultimates

The Water is Wide: Nita Gilger, Jay McDaniel

A Process Perspective of Virtual Reality: Jason Barker

They Say Nothing Stays the Same: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Jesus the Disturber: John B. Cobb, Jr.

Soul Fire Farm: Afro-Indigenous Farming, Planting Seeds of Hope

Does God take Selfies? An Open and Relational Alternative to Selfie Culture​

When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny & Pocket-Sized Feminism: Blythe Baird

Falling in Love: A Rare and Beautiful Togetherness

Lessons Learned from my Cancer: Rabbi Bradley Artson

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Eva Cassidy

Whitehead without Actual Entities? Maybe so.

What is Religious about this Painting? F. Thomas Trotter

Different Things Together: Whitehead's Concept of Harmony

Sadness Beyond Comfort: Like Jesus to the Crows

A Better Way is Possible: Fourteen Process Transformations

Hope as the Thing with Feathers: Process Theology and Emily Dickinson

​The Thing with Feathers: God and Hope
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Planting Seeds of Hope: Process Thought as Community Gardening

Our Memory Is Flawed. ​Luckily, God’s Isn’t.

Growth Counseling: Howard Clinebell

Clock Time and Lived Time: Henri Bergson, Pete A.Y. Gunter

Bergson, Mathematics, and Creativity: Pete A. Y. Gunter

Sleep, Sleep, Beauty Bright: William Blake, Martha Redbone

Loving Relationships as Good Medicine: Nita Gilger

Deporting Jesus: Jesus among the Refugees

Does Anything Really Move? A Question for Whitehead

The Queen's Message: Patricia Adams Farmer

Against Totalitarian Rigidity: Freedom for Adventure

God's Three Natures: Mind, Heart, and Guidance

God's Three Natures: Primordial, Consequent, and Superjective

Process and Weaving: Learning from the Women of East Timor

A Monistic Interpretation of Whitehead’s Creativity: John Wilcox

God as a Public Park: Divine Multiplicity as a Welcoming Space

New Peace: A Post-Secular Integration of Science and Spirituality

Mudddleheadedness and Simplemindedness  – Whitehead and Russell

Are there Buddhas on other Planets? Imagining Extraterrestrial Spiritualities

Though there are Torturers: Process Theology, Good and Evil

Process Spirituality: Six Types

Music, Joy, and Divine Delight: The Bauls of Bangladesh and India

The Ripening of Souls: Avocado Theology

Chongqing, China: Teamwork and Community Pride as Keys to Ecological Civilization​

Back to Fundamentals: Jimmy Carter Bible Study

The Dynamic Depth of a Canyon Precipice: A Photograph by Thomas Oord

Prickly Pear Cactus Theology: Nita Gilger

Enlightenment as Awakening to Essential Kenosis: Open and Relational Buddhism

Novelty & Tradition: Navajo Mountain Biker Explores Land, Community, Culture

The Ripening of Souls: Avocado Theology

An Illustrated Introduction to Whitehead's Organic Cosmology: Matthew Segall

Three Dot Metaphysics: Whitehead and the Ellipsis

A Floating World: "Objects in Odysseys" by Bill Psarras

​Process and Ceremony: Raising a Totem Pole

Random Acts of Godness:  Kindness, Laughter, Wonder, Courage, and Honesty​

Altizer on Altizer: The God of Novelty and Ashes

Star Formation and Street Art: David Zinn and the Lure Toward Creativity

​Life Without an Anchor: The Courage of the Christian Atheist​

Christian Atheism: John Cobb's appreciation of Thomas Altizer

Walking the Walk: Socially Engaged Buddhism and the Process Movement

Potlucks not Battlefields: Eboo Patel and Interfaith America

Different Ways to Pray: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

Seven Problematic Images of God: Pittenger, Griffin, Cobb
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Kimjang and the Sharing of Kimchi: An Eco-Practice from Korea
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Improvising with God: Danny Prada

Abandoning Yourself to the Rhythm: Ecstatic Dancing and Spirit Possession 

Whitehead without God? Maybe.​

I Felt this Loving Presence: Ten Ways of Knowing Jesus

Interfaith Dialogue as Inter-Earth Dialogue: Buddhism and Christianity

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue ​for an Ecological Age: Stephanie Kaza and Paul Ingram

The Humble Heart: Freedom from Boasting, Freedom to Love

Kindness: Naomi Shihab Nye, Patricia Adams Farmer

Kindness: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

God as the Tuning Fork of the Universe

A Strange and Quivering Universe: Whitehead and Electronic Music​

The High School Biology Teacher as Process Theologian: Six Characteristics
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A Mathematical Root of Whitehead’s Cosmological Thought: Robert Andrew Ariel

America's Real Culture War: Between an Obsession with Money and Lovingkindness
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​Honest Prayers to a Kind and Gentle God: Bunmi Laditan

Three Paradigms for an Emerging Islamic Process Theology

Whitehead's Doctrine of God: John Cobb

Earth Awe: Wordsworth, Paganism, and Process
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​Becoming Someone Else: Tameka Norris and the Construction of New Selves​

The Enduring Popularity of Elvis Presley

The Visual Poetry of Monica Ong: Social Justice in the Heavens

The Problem of Catastrophizing: Compulsive Worry about Worst-Case Scenarios
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Did Jesus have a baby sister? Dory Previn

​New Directions in Education: From STEM to STEAM to Four Hopes

Rocking Chair Meditation: Patricia Adams Farmer

The New Transcendence: How the James Webb Space Telescope expands Religious Horizons

Fixing Like a Child: Nita Gilger

Spiritual Echolocation: Listening with the Ears of the Heart​

A Sense of Play: Laughter as a Way of touching God

Process Spirituality: A Spiritual Alphabet
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The Living Earth Movement: We Can Save the World Today and Every Day

Earthism in Action: We Can Save the World Today and Every Day
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We Can Save the World Today and Every Day: Dar Williams

Earthism

Young Wesleyans: What if God is really Love?

The Powwow: Dancing, Singing, Drumming, and Socializing​
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Words to Live By on July 4: Heather Cox Richardson, Bradley Artson

Taking the Other to Lunch: Practicing Relationality in Times of Social Tension

Suicide and Therapy: Relational Approaches (Shah, McDaniel)​

Make America Hate Again: The Day My American Dreams Died

Trinity and Women's Experience: Barbara Brown Zikmund

Homesick: A Plea for Our Planet by Andrea Gibson

Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps: Andrea Gibson

Nikki Giovanni: Poetry in Process

Just This! Only This! Ryōkan and the Moon

What is Aliveness? Springboards for Reflection

Ecological Civilization and Vegan Chili: Building Cross-Cultural Friendships by Sharing Food and Recipes

Process Theology and ​the Pro-Life Movement: Toward a Consistent Ethic of Life

Life after Death: Process Approaches

Festooning: God as Ambient Light and Inner Light

Double Consciousness: WEB Du Bois, Maya Angelou, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Process and Community

Recipe for a Healthy Community: Serves a Multitude

Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics: Henry, Valenza, and Wasserman

No Need for Certainty: The Open Style of John Cobb's Theology​

Whitehead’s “Theory” of Propositions: Anthony J. Steinbeck

The Religion of Kindness and Beauty: Process Theology for Nones​

Is there a place for God in an evolving universe?​ Ingram, Smolin, McDaniel

Space in Process: The Birth and Death of Stars

The Arch My Teacher: Living with the Push and Pull of Life
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Design that Lifts our Spirits: Christopher Alexander, Architect for a Living World

I Got a Love: Elizabeth King, Gospel Singer
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Echoes of Paradise: Finding God in Gardens and Sufi Music

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Living Earth Movement and Starlings: A Theology of Biomimicry
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Dwelling Musically in the World: A Brief Introduction to the Process Lifestyle

Sin, Violence, and Forgiveness: Process Perspectives

I Never Thought Of It That Way: Monica Guzman
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Finding Some Sort of New Life: Can Illness be my Teacher?

Improvising Your Life: How Whitehead and Duke Ellington Changed My Understanding of Faith and Worship 
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Wholeness and Beauty: Patricia Adams Farmer, Jay McDaniel​

What Is Christian Process Theology? Marjorie Suchocki

The Republican Cowboy and his Obsession with Guns​

Christians Against Gun Culture: The "We Give Up our Guns" Movement

After Mass Shootings: Five Process Responses

Culture as a Cosmic Living Organism: Kubarsy, an Avant-Garde Band from Ukraine
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My Religion is Beauty: Patricia Adams Farmer

Individual Rights and the Common Good: John Cobb

Prehension: John Cobb and Jay McDaniel

A Heap of Broken Images: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Whitehead and the Transpersonal Mind

Zen Cooking: Life is What Happens in the Kitchen

The World needs more than Compassion; It needs Gladness.

​Whitehead's Metaphysics of Gladness

Spontaneous Flourishing beyond Human Control: A Zen corrective to Strategic Planning
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Process Theology and the Bible: How Science Has Changed Our View of God​
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Eco-Chilling for the Common Good: Eco-Planet Psychedelic Lounge Music

Forgiveness and Pain: Mass, the Movie
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How do I love my MAGA neighbor?

A Thoughtful Approach to Abortion: John Cobb
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Frida Kahlo: Artist and Inspiration
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Christianity and Empire: John Cobb

What can John Wesley do for us Today? Five Lectures by John Cobb

The Unique "I" of Jesus: John Cobb

My Nation is on Fire, Feel the Burning: Metal Music in Ukraine

Divine Patience, Soothing Novelty, and the Music of Calm

Praying to Red Berries: Gilger and McDaniel

Scientific Laws, The Unity of Nature, and God: Paul O. Ingram

The Moral Imagination and Peacemaking: From Conflict Resolution to Social Healing

Do Something: Volunteering and Community Service as Process-Relational Practices​

Process Theology in Black Perspective: Still  Becoming

​Kindness as a Goal of Life: Kind People, Kind Cities, Kind Nations, Kind Religion, and a Kind World
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Teaching Process Thought in your Local Setting: The Cobb Institute Toolbox

No One is Alone: God as the Fellow Sufferer who Understands​

Three Types of Process Theology: Empirical, Speculative, and Rationalist

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Practical Wisdom and Nature Photography: Mary Elizabeth Moore and David Huth

Process and Interfaith Slide Show: From the Educator's Toolbox
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Listening not Loathing: Good Ideas from Glenn Youngkin

Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey

The Cobb Institute: Mission & Vision

More than Process: The Platonic Side of Whitehead

Let Nothing Congeal: Religions are Rivers and God is, Too

The Metaphysical Possibility of Life after Death: John Cobb

Whitehead's Doctrine of God: John Cobb in  "A Christian Natural Theology"

The Prophetic Tuba: Theon Cross and the Cobb Institute
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A Punch in the Gut: ​Atrocities in Process Perspective

Sympathetic Joy: A Lesson from Buddhism for Open and Relational Theologians

DakhaBrakha: Crazy Homeland Harmonies from Ukraine​

Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Five Ideas from David Bohm

Your Soul is a River: Bob Mesle and the Warsaw Village Band

Deaf Culture, Process Theology, and Spiritual Knowing

A Green Bough in the Heart: Hope as a Theological Virtue

What does the Earth Desire? Thomas Berry on the Wisdom of Children
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Nine American Idolatries: A Biblical Critique
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Listening to the Earth's Healing Heartbeat
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How the World creates God and God creates the World

Evolution and Continuing Creation: Ian Barbour

Economism as Idolatry: John Cobb

Sunflowers for Distressed Hearts: Patricia Adams Farmer

Let your Vision be World Embracing: Roland Faber's Baha'i Faith

The Practical Need for Metaphysics: John Cobb

Listening with the Ear of the Heart: Process and Silence

Freedom for All: ​This is my Song, O God of all the Nations

The Mutual Transcendence of God and the World: Process Meditations

The Penguin my Teacher: Seven Life Lessons 

Alzheimer's and the Consequent Nature of God: Still Alice

February is sobbing and the candle drips on the table: Iya Kiva, Ukrainian Poet​

Where is God for the Dying Giraffe: Five Questions for Open and Relational Theologians

May I Give this Ukrainian Bread to all the People in this Big Wide World? Maria Prymachenko, Ukrainian Folk Artist
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There Can Be Sadness in Holding On: Nita Gilger

Arriving at Wholeness in Life after Death? David Ray Griffin's Invitation to Hope

Voice/Way: New Music from Ukraine
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Music in Excess: A Concert of Ukrainian Avant-Garde Music

The Brush with God: Rev. Barkley Thompson

Why are there so many different religions? Paul Ingram​

We, between Past and Future: Artists in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Practicing Process Thought in Daily Life

Does process theology have anything to say about patriotism? John Cobb

A Soul with Size: Bernard Loomer's Invitation to Embrace the World
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John Cobb and Wendell Berry​

Integrative, Non-Reductionist Science: Timothy Eastman's Untying the Gordian Knot

God is the Whole of every whole: Teilhard de Chardin, Ilia Delio, and Process Theology

Cultivating Creativity: Arts Education in an Artistic Universe

A Soul with Size: Bernard Loomer's Invitation to Embrace the World

​Alfred North Whitehead’s Artistic Cosmos: J. R. Hustwit

Writing about "Writing about God": Paul O. Ingram​

Land Ethics, Animal Rights, and Process Theology: Jay McDaniel

Processing Toward Life: Protons and Ants

​Processing Toward Life: Charles Birch

Seeing the World in Vivid Colors: A Ukrainian Gift to Ecological Civilization

First Steps in a Process Theology of Dance

The Earth Charter on Education: Four Key Themes

The Folk Music Center and the Cobb Institute: Shining Lights in Claremont, California

Encanto: Film Review

Whole Systems Thinking and Process Theology

The Universe as a Living Whole: Daniel Wahl, Whole Systems Theory, and Process Theology

Cultivating Compassion and Beauty: NIta Gilger

The Joy Business: Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama

Theology in Montana: Discarded Wood, Family-Owned Sawmills and the Beauty of Divine Mistakes
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God's Fellow Workers: Greg Hoover

Virtual Resurrection through Artificial Intelligence: Springboards for Reflection
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Twenty Key Ideas in Process Thinking

The Art of Savoring: Patricia Adams Farmer

Call, Gift, and Response: Teri Daily

Life-after-Death: Process Reflections
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We Rise by Lifting Others: ​Caregivers and Domestic Workers as Exemplars

Process and Flourishing: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency

Art for Ecological Civilization: Evocations of Hope in a Time of Need
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Quiet Body, Quiet Mind: Whitehead and Zen Meditation

Thusness: Whitehead on the Preciousness of Concrete Facts

Whitehead on Wordsworth - Art out of Nature

Loving my Enemies and Living Simply: Wendell Berry on Jesus and the Gospels

Thich Nhat Hanh and Process Theology

Ecological Civilization: David Korten

From Ego-nomics to Eco-nomics: Wisdom and Hope from David Korten

Celebrating the Chinese New Year: Whitehead and Dumplings

Praise God from Whom all Oddness Flows

Grace Upon Grace: Babette's Feast

Pied Beauty: Openness to Oddness as a Spiritual Gift

We Shall Overcome: An Open and Relational Appreciation

Thusness: A Whiteheadian Appreciation of Nature's Self-Creativity

The Chemistry Lab as Sanctuary: AN Whitehead on Percy Bysshe Shelley

Introversion: Farhan Shah, Patricia Adams Farmer, Jay McDaniel

The Plasticity of our Being: An interview with Farhan Shah on Introversion

Ecotheology as the World's Best Hope

Nagarjuna and Whitehead Compared
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Indian Theism and Process Philosophy: Delmar Langbauer

We Will Wonder, Too: Vivian Dong

Why Believe in Rebirth? Jeffery D. Long

Becoming a Spiritually Literate Congregation: The Spiritual Alphabet

In a Zen Way: Peter Coyote on Dogen's Zen
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Dawn Richard, New Orleans, and Bodily Resurrection through Dance

What is Democracy? Springboards for Reflection

​I fear for our Democracy: Jimmy Carter and others​

LIfe Lessons from Fungi: Process Theology and Mycology

Why use a Lectionary? And what is a Lectionary, anyway?

Aliens and Psychedelics: Novel Directions in Process Philosophy
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Three Cheers for Desmond Tutu's Beautifully Fat Soul

The Process Movement: Ideas, Aims, and Practices

Hayes Carll: The Religious Side of his Music

The Koolulam Initiative: Singing Hope Across Cultures Together

What is Process?  Ideas, Aims, and Practices​

Sin Is When Life Freezes: Dorothy Solle​

Making the Fool Care: Puncturing middle-class indifference to climate change
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I Have Seen Mary (and other Christmas meditations)​

Building a Canoe: ​Moving from Rough to Smooth​

Mother Mary our Breastfeeding Priest

Spiritual Literacy through Films: Religious Education in a Digital Age

The Salvation of Santa Claus

Ten Reasons to Gaze into the Night Sky​

Process Theology and Thomas Berry

Dhikr: A Process Reflection

Some Reflections on the writings of Mary Oliver
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Enlightened Irony: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

Small is Still Beautiful: Appreciating the Work and Legacy of E.F. Schumacher

Experiencing Deeply

Kiss the Ground: Partnering with Soil as Relational Power in Action

Reverence for Life equals Reverence for God: Albert Schweitzer meets Open and Relational Theology

Would Jesus hunt?  If he did, would he enjoy the killing? 

Seeking an Integral Ecology: Process Thought, Catholic Social Teaching, and Laudato Si'

The Spectral Luminosity of Ordinary Things: Whitehead's Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
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A Friend's Love: Bob Mesle

Climate Change and Democracy: David Orr

A Role for Tradition and Modernity ​in the Future of Religion: Morningstar and McDaniel

Process Theology and Raking Leaves

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: The Artist as Theologian and Four Hopes Provocateur
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After Great Pain, Finding a Way Out: Joan Chittister

Double Religious Belonging: Buddhism and Christianity

Choosing to be Present and Open: Joanna Macy on Spirituality in an Age of Climate Crisis
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Water as a Spiritual Teacher: On Learning to be Strange to Yourself

How I Got Over Being a Radical Foodie Southern Health Nut: Joanna ES Campbell​
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Trusting in Fresh Possibilities: Hanukkah for Gentiles

Each Horse has a Hidden Space: The Art of Ingrid Geisler
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How Duke Ellington Changed my Life: George Hermanson

Breeze on Bare Skin and Gentleness of Every Kind: A Gratitude Collage

The Spirituality of the Earth: Thomas Berry

​The World Needs Local Entrepreneurs: Rising Tide Capital, Beloved Economies, ​and Process Theology​

The Four Temptations of Country Music: Be Careful.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? ​Process Reflections on Traditional Folk Music

An Earthly Theological Agenda: Sallie McFague

The Process Poetry Movement 
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Longing for Intimacy: Process Theology and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

Did God Design Venus Flytraps?  Well, not exactly.

Shedding in Order to Grow
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Religion without a personal God: Bob Mesle on Henry Nelson Wieman

​Whitehead without God: Wieman's Critique of Whitehead

Aesthetic Value and Relational Power: Bob Mesle

Slow, Emotive, and Quietly Explosive: The Eco-Electronic Music of Mei-Fang Liau

Empirical Process Theology: Bernard Loomer's Eight Great Ideas

One Love: Reggae, Process, and Faith

The Gift of Loving Attention: Process Theology and Alzheimer's Disease

The Grace of Trees: Process Theology for Tree People

Animal Experience: A Whiteheadian Analysis

The Aesthetic Side of God: Charles Hartshorne on God's Enjoyment of Our Enjoyment

God is in Control

Personal Identity A to Z: Charles Hartshorne

Ada María Isasi-Díaz: Mother of Mujerista Theologies

South Asian Anti-Caste Hip-Hop

Process and Kabbalah: Springboards for Reflection

John Cobb on Vedanta and Buddhism

On being hitched to everything else in the world

Therapeutic Horseback Riding: The Horse as Priest

Astronomy and Creation: Ian Barbour

The Perfection of Love: John Cobb on what Christians can learn from Buddhism

The Buddhist Ground of the Whiteheadian God: Thomas J.J. Altizer

I Yearned for the Physical: Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty

The Rarámuri and the 12th Principle of the Earth Charter

The Yin and Yang of Persons-in-Community: A Chinese and American Seek Wisdom Together

Bad Novelty.  No More Fishing in Malta. The Slow Whittling Away of Tradition by Modernity​

God as Wind and Breath: Grace Kim, Roland Faber, John O'Donohue

God and Beer: A Process Appreciation of Belgian Beer Culture

God is Eternal and Unchanging, Too: John Cobb's Preference for Whitehead over Hartshorne

Eco-Electronica: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Campfire Process Theology: Digital, Informal, Open-Ended, Conversational, Everyday

L is for Listening: God is the Deep Listening

Process and Stories: Mary Elizabeth Moore

Four Characteristics of a Process-Relational Psychotherapy: Mary Elizabeth Moore

Prayer and Planetarity: Prayerful Inclusions of the Web of Life

Mother Goddess Worship in Vietnam: A Role for Spirits in the Wider Ecology of Life

Can Process Philosophy be Whistled? Whistled Languages as Cultural Treasures
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Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Gone Forever: Apocalypse Fatigue

When Fear Hurts: Patricia Adams Farmer
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My Neighbor's Texts: Readings from Islam
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Not Governments, not Religion. Only Music can Save the World.

Karen Carpenter, Patricia Adams Farmer, and the Beauty of Imperfection

Partnering with God as Partnering with the Earth: Backyard Composting as an Open and Relational Practice
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Muhammad Iqbal et la beauté d’un avenir ouvert ​

The Divine Space We Live In: The Bhavagad-Gita, Roland Faber, and Process Theology

Partnering with God: The Podcast

Life is Like Peanut Brittle

The Qur'an on the Rights of Women

Let Love Be Your Guide: Appreciating the Music of Dan and Claudia Zanes 

Was Whitehead influenced by Biological Evolution? Yes and No.

Mongolian Hip-Hop, Whitehead, and the Globalization of Novelty

There is no Absolute Present: Whitehead on Durations and Multiple Time Frames
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What are Strain Feelings in Whitehead's Philosophy?

Muhammad Iqbal and the Beauty of an Open Future: Farhan Shah

Improvisation Everywhere: The Universe of Process Theology

Accepting Jesus as your Personal Lord and Savior: A Process Appreciation

God as Deep Breathing: How to Practice Zen Meditation

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
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GATE A-4: Naomi Shihab Nye

Thinking outside the Boxes of "Liberal" and "Conservative"

Turning Process into Poetry: Notes on Charles Olson and Whitehead
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Looking for a truly Christian politician

Jewish Holy Days and Festivals: Artson and Safman

I'm pretty traditional. Might I, too, have a place at the interfaith table?

God the Pianist: Bach, Process Theology, and Piano Playing

The Transformational Death of a Son: Fiona Spargo-Mabbs

My Life with Aoudads

The Animals in Our Lives: A Book Recommendation

God's Love of Hypocrites: Sermon and Commentary

Take Me Home, Country Roads: Homesickness and the Immigrant Experience

Is God a Force or a Person? 

Sikhism in Process
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Walking as a Spiritual Practice
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Openness to the New in Apocalyptic and in Process Theology: William Beardslee​

Dancing in Uzbekistan: The Sunniest Dance on Earth
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Memos from Ron Hines: John Cobb and Friends
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Your God is Too Big: Learning to find God in the Small and Tender

Can God hear music without human ears?

Compassion in a Vibrating Universe: Roland Faber, Joan Baez, Pythagorus, and Whitehead

Brides for Sale: An Afghan Rapper

Process Theology and Coffee: An Aid to Attention, Community, and Creativity

Process and Coffee: Attention, Community, Creativity

Spirit Bathing: Patricia Adams Farmer

Jazz and the Spirit of Democracy

Mencius and Xunzi: A Process Reflection

Hope Comes: The Bengsons

What is Nature? Is it pure? Is it righteous?
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Process Theology, Death, and Grieving: Springboards for Discussion

The Rough and Tumble of Life: Here We go Again

The Good Shepherd: A Universal Love

Listening to the Music of What Happens: Why Poetry is So Much Better than Philosophy, Sometimes

Four Harmonies Worth Seeking: With Yourself, Other People, The Natural World, and Heaven

Process and Kindness: Welcome Home

Claiming Your Inner Magician: God, Creativity, and Magic

Thirteen Ways that Process Philosophy ​and Theology Can Die
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Hello Good Friend: The Enjoyment and Facilitation of Friendships as a Primary Practice of Process Theology

Return to the Body: Patricia Adams Farmer

My Slow God: Practicing Slowness as Walking in God's Loving Light

What's to learn from Positive Psychology about Open and Relational Parenting?

What does divine "amipotence" look like?  It looks like the human touch of a nurturant nurse.

Bring me my Chariot of Fire: William Blake and John Cobb on the need for a Green, Humane World

Let God be God.  Let Frogs be Frogs.  The Sacred is more than God.
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Marriage and Parenting: Some Process Reflections for Friends in China

Andrew Davis: Philosophical Foundations of Process Thinking (Video Series)
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The Genius of the Beautiful is its Power to Move us Emotionally: William Dean on ​Whitehead's Empirical Aesthetic
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Jill Suttie: Music and Reflection

The Problem of the Anthropocene: God's Desire that Humans Take a Good Long Nap
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Ellen Birx: Christian, Buddhist, Nurse, Grandmother

We Feel Therefore We Are: Collective Effervescence and the Primacy of Shared Emotions

Open and Relational Guitar Lessons: The Online Guitar Community as a Sacred Space
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Practicing Guitar as a Spiritual Practice: The Online Guitar Community as Virtual Sacred Space
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It's like Poetry. It's so Beautiful. A Chinese Girl Discovers Mathematics.

Four Hopes of the Process Movement
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Resilience in the Waves of Life: Nita Gilger

Ecospirituality begins at Home: A Poem by Lucy Griffith
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What's to Love about America (even as it's been seduced by the Devil)

Process Philosophy and Haiku Consciousness

I Heard there was a Secret Chord: Hallelujah, the Baffled Mind, and Holy Doubt

Sufism Resource Page: For Process Oriented Seekers

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

What Good Shall I Do Today? The Great Work of Nurturing Local Communities

Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

Is Was: Introducing "Process" through Children's Literature
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The Open-Ended House: Patricia Adams Farmer

How Dolphin are You? Claiming Your Inner Dolphin

Why I Study Physics: An Animation by Xiangjun Shi

Desert Spirituality: Roland Faber, Mary Earle, and the Desert Mothers

How Music Saves Us: Fifteen Ways​

The Reenchantment of Nature: ​Loren Eiseley and David Ray Griffin
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The Music Advantage: Spirituality and Practice Review

Spiral Living: Seeing with Artist Eyes

What is the Purpose of Life? Wisdom, Compassion, Creativity

​What is the Purpose of Life? A Whiteheadian Approach
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Martha Wainwright's Music: A Gorgeous Argument for Living a Complicated Life

​Eli Paperboy Reed: Gospel Music for Everybody

Process Philosophy and Live Theater

I Look Up as I Walk: The "Sukiyaki" Song ​

The Need to Laugh: Process Philosophy, Positive Psychology, and Ecological Civilization

Positive Emotions as Nutrients: Barbara Fredrickson, Positive Psychology, and Process Philosophy​

A Letter to My Postmodern Son: John Caputo on The Weakness of God

What would Whitehead think? John Cobb on Ten Principles of Whiteheadian Thinking

A Nurturant Darkness: God as Dark Matter

God Only Knows: Open and Relational Theology meets the Beach Boys 

A Ringy Dingy Super Moon

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: Review by Micah Bucey

Bob Dylan as Secular Psalmist: His Fifty Best Songs

Kongjian Yu: The Flourishing Community as ​Humane and Ecological

Sweet Old World: Lucinda Williams and Whitehead on Tenderness

A Sweet and Tender Kiss: Finding God in the Tender Elements of  the World

Can't Help Falling in Love: Elvis, Rumi, and Process Theology

The Little Flame in All Things: The Natural Silence of the Sanctuary

Grace and the Secret of the Stream: John O'Donohue and Roland Faber

The Private Self: The Natural Silence of the Sanctuary

A Day in the Life of Gaza Fishermen: We are Not Numbers

Choosing the Moral Option in Gaza: A Process Approach

​Always Dreading the Knock at the Front Door: Springboards for Reflection on Life in Gaza

Slave on a Fishing Boat: Film Review of Buoyancy

Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" as Sacred Text

I am a Quiet Person: Process Theology for Introverts

Ocean Spiritualities

The Baffled Mind as Sacred Space: Wendell Berry, Sarah Taibah, John O'Donohue 
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I Dwell in Possibility: Emily Dickinson, Alfred North Whitehead, and Jillian Judson's Vision of Eco-Education

The Massacre of Truth: Christian Nihilists versus Liz Cheney

God the Deep Remembering: A Tender Care that Nothing be Lost
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The Spirituality of  Rivers - Rivers as Spiritual Guides​

Mysteries and the Spiritual Sleuth - Patricia Adams Farmer
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Whose Mother am I? Documentary on an Alzheimers Caregiver in Thailand
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Beauty in Vulnerability—Looking in the Mirror

Mother: Documentary on a Caregiver in Thailand

Many in the Heart of the One: Learning from the Madina Institute

Corn, Beans, and Chili Peppers: Traditional Mexican Cuisine as Inspiration for Ecological Civilization

God as Three Sisters: Thinking Trinitarianly 

Elvis and the Benedictines and Holy Play

Evoking People, Animals, and Places: Gratitude to Yoik Songs and Sami Culture
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God as Natural as Gravity ​and as Beautiful as Rainbows: Notes on the New Naturalism

I am from a time when my mother went to the hospital and never came back. ​By the way, God, where are you from?

All of Us Praying for All of Us
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"I'd Like to Live More Simply" - The Earth Charter, Process Theology, and the Benedictines

Living Cultures in China: Videos and Descriptions from UNESCO

The Reception and Recreation of Intangible Cultural Heritages in China:​​ A Gift from UNESCO to Ecological Education

Joy after Pain? The Bengsons sing Creative Transformation​

Four Ways to Roll Up Our Sleeves: Practicing Earth Day Every Day

Just This: Is there a Place for Smallness ​in Process Philosophy and Theology? ​

God as the Deep Listening

Process Reflections on AA

Beyond Mindfulness: Making Space for Restless Exuberance and A Passionate Love of Mexican Food: The Exuberant Life

Deep Listening, Science, and Spirit: Timothy Eastman's Untying the Gordian Knot as a Resource for Poets and Artists

Beauty or Beast: Are there Rattlesnakes in Heaven?

​Deep Listening, Science and Spirit: Appreciating Tim Eastman

A Flower Flowers: Openness to the Spontaneity of the Particular

Daoism and Process: The Daoist Side of Whitehead
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Feeling the Supreme Beauty: Whitehead's Appreciation of Non-Verbal Experiences of Ultimacy

The Hallelujah Chorus and its Emotional Impact

Untaming the Resurrection: Teri Daily​

Religion in the Making: Q&A with Russell Duvernoy (video)

Deep Calls to Deep: ​A Meditation on Jazz and Prayer

Crossing the Red Sea: The Fierce Hope that Can Emerge from Deep Sadness

Holy Week in a Time of Pandemic

Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Pasta: What would Whitehead think?

Becoming Simon of Cyrene: Rev. Teri Daily

Wisdom from Korea: Jazz, Bibimbap, and Eco-Civ 

Chinese New Year Gala: Spring Festival Lecture

Nine Common-Sense Ways to Reduce Shootings: A Public Health Approach​ and A Process-Relational Response to Gun Violence: A Community Health Approach

God and La Bamba: The Belly Laugh as a Way of Participating in God's Life

The Theology of Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: A Video
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"If we have more contact we understand each other." Meet Songhe Wang from Harbin, China

Fifteen Reasons to Birdwatch: The Mental Health Benefits ​of Connecting with Nature
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I Arise Today through ​ the Strength of Heaven

St. Patrick's Prayer and Process-Relational Theology
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Surprised by Beauty: The Grace of Moving On after Suffering

The Church of Nomadland: Creative Transformation while Living in a Van

Lucinda Williams and Bob Mesle: Process Theologians of the Third Ultimate

This Sweet Old World: The Temporary Nature of Any Precious Thing
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Who am I? Who are You? Reflections on Identity and Dementia: Terry Goddard and Jay McDaniel

The Tao of Grandparenting (Barbara and Bob Mesle)

My Grandson is Brahman and You are, Too: Bob Mesle

Thinking about God and Cancer: The Awakening of Zen-Len

​To the Thousandth Generation

Weaving the Shadow: A Lenten Reflection

Woodpecker Wisdom: A Willingness to Regroup and Claiming our Inner Woodpecker: The Relational Alternative

In Praise of the "Good Trouble" Maker: Quotations and Reflections

Not Knowing is Part of the Experience of Getting There: Faith, Imagination and Mystery

​The Improvising Mindset: Food for Reflection

I, the Process-Relational None and The Open and Relational None: Is There Space for Me?

Seven Songs for a Long Life (The Essence of Hospice Care): Film Review

Buddha

A Tender Care that Nothing be Lost: The Nurturing Nurse as an Image of God​
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A New Approach to Ecological Education: Gillian Judson's Contribution to Eco-Civ

Dealing with Mental Illness Islamically: Demythologization of inherited forms of religious thought

Send in the Clowns: Theology for the Imaginative and Vulnerable

It's Hard to Love a System: The Need for for Warm Language in Describing Ecological Civilization​

Process Theology and the Ashes of Pandemic

Futuristic Fire Music: Moor Mother's Free Jazz as Liberation Theology

The Buddhist Monk who Got Addicted to his Phone: The Shadow Side of Screen Culture

And Now for the Real Stars: ​The Staff at Memory Care centers who dance with the Residents

Process Zen: Notes for a Course

Amanda Gorman, Bruce Springsteen and Healing the Soul of the Nation

Process Education

Prayer Facing Imminent Death

The Healing Power of Dance: Film Review of Farewell Amor

God Sets Down the Melody and We Improvise: ​Two Essays and a Poem by George Hermanson

When Dreams are Interrupted 

Let the Ideas Evolve: The Practice of holding and fostering Metamodern Conversations

An Eco-Christology for an Age of Mass Deforestation​

The Alone with the Alone: Henry Corbin, Ibn' Arabi, and Process Theology

Henry Corbin: The Errors and Wisdom of a 20th Century Orientalist

A Tree Growing out of My Chest: The Bengsons sing the Yearning

The Listen First Project: Tips for Compassionate Community​

Amanda Gorman and the Institute for Ecological Civilization: Two Signs of Hope 
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​Philosophy without religion is a Eurocentric construct

Taqwa in Islam: ‘Self-Sufficiency’ Doesn’t Exist, ​ and Thank God for That.

Third Spaces: Developing Cross-Cultural Friendships Through Food, Music, and Storytelling​

Six Questions to Consider after listening to Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb"

A Space for Friendships: Appreciating Toad Suck Buck's 

Arthur Johnson

The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman

​Process Worldview (Four Summary Statements)

Water as a Bodhisattva: Elizabeth McAnally on the Ethics and Spirituality of Water​
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Process Theology - Seven Similarities
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Light as a Vehicle of Feeling: The Painter Turner and the Philosopher Whitehead​

Creative Localization: ​ A Community-Based Approach to Ecological Civilization in Practice and Theory​

Reading Whitehead Poetically: An Observation by Lisa Jarnot
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Children's Wisdom, Grown-Up Wisdom and ​​the Gifts of Mutual Flourishing​
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Process Theology and the Politics of Zero Sum and Abundance

It's the Worldviews, Stupid! Learning from John Sanders and John Cobb
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The Spirituality and Politics of the Beloved Community​ and Is the Religious Nationalist My Neighbor?
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This Moment is Ultimate, Too!
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The Spirituality and Politics of the Beloved Community
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Understanding the Insurrection at the Capitol: Frances Flannery

The Awakening of Zen-Len  Creative Transformation through a journey with Cancer

The End of the World: A Meditation on Apocalyptic Thinking

Process Theology and the Politics of Stature

Why We Won't Give Up: How America Looks to a Conservative Christian Trump Supporter

Baptism in a Sacramental Universe: Bruce Epperly​
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The Metallic Side of God: Open and Relational Theology meets Heavy Metal Music​
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​The Drip-Drip of Persistence: Patricia Adams Farmer

The Basis for a Pluralist Theology of Religions

It all Begins with Listening: Enjoying Interfaith Friendships as a way of practicing Open and Relational Theology

​Opening to Possibilities for a New Year: Bruce Epperly​
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Hey, I Count, Too.  Making Space for Animals ​in a Relational Worldview

Lee Smolin, Alfred North Whitehead, and the New Naturalism​
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Embracing Grace: Rev. Teri Daily

Healing the Children: A Reflection on the “Massacre of the Infants”​
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Dot-to-Dot Providence: Trust in a God who makes New Plans
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Worshipping Online: A Reflection by Bruce Epperly​
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Guiding Light

Incarnation and Signs from God: Living in an Enchanted Universe
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I Have Seen Mary: Open and Relational Christmas Meditations 
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Reading Sacred Poetry: It Gives You Permission to Feel

Fun Church: David Byrne's American Utopia​
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Everything Flows: A Process Approach to Ecohumanism (Lynn De Jonghe)​

The Living ​Santa and his Elves: A Process Reflection
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Inspired by a Relational Worldview: Flagstaff College's Innovative Adventure

8 Points of Process Theology: Color in the Details​
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I Can't Feel Hope but I Can Remenber It: Treasuring Pleasant Memories as Modes of Divine Presence
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Blue Boat Home: Video by Kathleen Reeves, Photography by Thomas Oord​
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A Family of Pigs: The Subjectivity of other Animals in Open and Relational Theology

​What Happened to America? The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education

The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education: David Orr

No Ecological Civilization without Guitars: A Role for Popular Music in helping bring about a more Just and Sustainable World​
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Keep Seeking and Creating: What Whitehead Wants

The Open and Relational Atheist

​The Open and Relational Agnostic
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The Hurrying and Waiting of Advent

The Lure of Water:Transcendence without a personal God

From the Myth of Separation ​to the Story of Interbeing: ​Charles Eisenstein and Process Philosophy​
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Catch a Falling Star: Blessed Nostalgia as a Spiritual Practice​

​Souls Marinating in Love: Can Thandeka help save Process Theology?​
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What's Going On?​ ​Metaphysical questioning as a pleasurable and subversive religious activity

Toward a More Beautiful World: Charles Eisenstein and the Cobb Institute
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Zooming God: A Note on Digital Panentheism

When I Fall Down I Get Up Again: Short Reflections on Whitehead and Zen

When All the Leaves Are Gone

Gumbo Unplugged: Roland Faber's Polyphilia

On Being a Track Coach in spirit of Open and Relational Theology
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This Moment is Ultimate, Too! "Mind, Value, and Cosmos" by Andrew Davis

Daily Life Metaphysics: An Interpretive Overview of "Mind, Value, and Cosmos" by Andrew Davis

My Job is to be Your Son: Caregiving and the Meaning of Life

A Nomadic Encounter with the Analects of Confucius
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What the Constitution Means to Me: Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Two Kinds of God People/Evolution and Purpose​

Jon Gill, Hip Hop, and the Next Universe​ 
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​Swimming with the Buddha: Bob Mesle

Christ as a Spillway of Love 

Beyond Resentment: The Gentle Badass

Dancing in the Streets: "J" is for Moments of Joy

Stop, Relax, Breathe, Pray, and Resume: There is no Final Outcome

There is​ no Final Outcome: Faith, Process, and Liminality

Friluftsliv: Nordic for the "Fresh-Air Life"

Prehensive Wholeness: David Bohm and Process Philosophy

Mercedes Sosa - Sólo Le Pido a Dios

Six Questions: Philip Clayton's Challenge to the Process Community

The Healing Balm of All Saints' Day
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Finding the Green Light: ​​​I Was Blocked by a Trump Caravan, Too.

On Black Lives Matter & Institutional Racism: A Dialogue Between Socrates and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Keep Going Song and Process Theology

Is There More to God than Openness and Relationality? Might we love God in her Solitude, Too?

The Gospel of Fear and Resentment: QAnon and the Trump Cult

To Dust You Shall Return: Our Alienation from Death and the World

CLAY in the Potter’s Hands: Human Evolution in a Self-Creating World

Revisiting Creation, Natural Events, and Their Emergent Patterns
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Vibrating over the Face of the Deep: God’s Creating, and Ours

I Can't Swear Allegiance to Hitler: Review of A Hidden Life

Dynamic God, Evolving World: Judaism and Process Thought

God in Process Theology: Ideas and Approaches

To See the Face of God: Teri Daily

Whitehead on the Feeling of Peace​
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Finding the "Yum" in Things: Esperanza Spalding, Process Theology, and Ecological Civilization

The Most Pernicious Doctrine  in Islam: A Muslim Perspective

Less Strategy, More Intuition: Leadership from the Grounded Pause

James Baldwin (1924-1987): Getting Perspective on Race in America

Re-Imagining the Future: Pope Francis's TED talk ​ on Integral Ecology​
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Your Appointment with Life is in the Present Moment​: Where Process Theology meets Thich Nhat Hanh

Judaism and Process Thought: Three Part Series

Ten Things that Piss Off God

A Tender Care that Nothing be Lost: God the Button Collector

Everyone is Someone’s Jacob: What I’ve Learned From My Autistic Son

The Courage to Hope: ​Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, and a 21st Century Enlightenment

A Liturgy of the Hours: Frank Felice, New Music and Improvisation​
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Restoring Q's Good Name

Empty Space, Mountains, and Souls: Whitehead's Concepts of  Nexūs, Societies and Living Persons

Deus ex Photographia: Theopoetics from Thomas Oord
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James Corden

Making Good with What We Have At Hand: God in the Making​

Whatever Happened to the Common Good?  Meritocracy, Throwaway Culture, and Folk Libertarianism

​What does God's Breathing Sound Like? Caitlin Frasure, Delvyn Case, and New Classical Music

Deus ex Photographia: Four Short Theologies from Thomas Oord
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Process, Beauty, and Locally Grown Power  CHERP's Vision of Art ​in the American Factory​
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It's Erratic and Strange, Harsh and Beautiful: A Christian Argues for New Music

Circles in a Circle: Process Philosophy and Spiritual Decentering

​Whitehead Basics
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Beauty as a Plank Amid the Waves: Patricia Adams Farmer's "Beauty and Process Theology"

Following in the Footsteps ​of Ruth Bader Ginsburg​: A Rosh Ha-Shanah Meditation

Theology from Sacred Music: Deus ex Musica and the Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy

Giving Peace a Chance: ​​On the Relationships Between Love, Beauty, and Peace
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Bob Dylan, Roland Faber, and Alfred North Whitehead

Interality Studies - An Adventure in Liminal Space-Time

Can a Process Theologian be a Buddhist, Too?

Can a Buddhist be a Process Theologian, Too?

Philip Clayton - How Can Emergence Explain Reality?
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No Hope without Lamentation: Imagining the World through God's Eyes​
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​Media Ecology in a Jazz Mode: Eric McLuhan, Peter Zhang
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Salvation: Jesus's Mission and Ours by John Cobb

O;en and Relational Line Dancing: God's Patience with Missteps​

Tripp Fuller and My Mother: ​Invitations to Open and Relational Christologies​
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Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros: Theopoetics in Action

Eight Theological Mistakes According to Charles Hartshorne

No Justice without Beauty

A Short Note on Beauty in the Thought of Loren Eiseley and A.N. Whitehead​
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Une réponse musulmane selon la philosophie du ‘processus’ (ou l’ontologie du devenir) par Farhan SHAH

Whiteheadian Existentialism

What is Process Philosophy and How do you practice it?

Whitehead's Philosophy of Experience: Speculative and Phenomenological

The Extensive Continuum

Whitehead's Two Kinds of Process
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God in the Depths: Tigran Hamasyan and Sheri Kling

Can We Feel Each Other's Feelings? ​Whitehead on the Ontology of Empathy

For Me "China" is its People: An American Appreciation

Was all this meant to be, including Covid-19? A Process Muslim Response​

To Perceive the Feelings of Other Animals: Process Theology, Anne Benvenuti, and Richard Rohr

Embracing Prodigals by John Sanders

Practicing Process Thought: Ten Guidelines

Nexus Coffee and Creative: Small Businesses in service to Compassionate Community

Crazy as Hell: Fat Soul Shamanism
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How might I Practice Process Thought? Ten Recommendations

Nexūs and Subjective Forms: Whitehead on the Public and the Private

Give the Earth some Credit: Let the Energy and Beauty of the World be Not-God

Local Loyalty and World Loyalty: Combining Bioregionalism and Neo-Nomadism

Faith in the Goodness of Strangers: The Elf Louise Christmas Project

Deep Unto Deep
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ДахаБраха (DhakaBraka): Listening for the Unexpected

Process Philosophy and Global Climate Change

"Y" is for You
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Hope Montgomery: Process Theopoetics

The Ethics of Body Swapping: A Film Review of Advantageous
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Does Islam say that human beings have free-will?

60,000 Starlings Can't Be Wrong: Perhaps We, Too, Can Cooperate

Elf Louise and the Salvation of Santa Claus​

John Lewis and John Cobb on Love
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Nature, Imagination, and Process Thought​

Novelty

The Manyness of God

Harmony: Whitehead's Approach

Integral Spirituality: The Cobb Institute

God Is Here

Bringing Life to Life: One Role of Art in an Ecological Civilization​

Disability and Imagination: Molly Joyce on Creative Transformation

Dying of Whiteness: Bob's Confession​

Interfaith Hospice Care in the Compassionate Community

"How to Bible" and Other Life Lessons from Donald Trump: Sarah Cooper's Trump Impressions​

I Really Don't Know Life At All: Imagination and Mystery in Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now

Nature as Alive
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John Cobb at 95: An Interview on his Life in Faith

What is Creativity? What is God?  

Building a Future Together: Notes on Muhammad Iqbal's Philosophy of Creativity ​​

Open Religion, Open God: A Process Alternative to Authoritarianism

Building a Future Together: Notes on Muhammad Iqbal's Philosophy of Creativity ​​

"K" is for Kindness: Patricia Adams Farmer

Self-Evident Truths: What to the slave is the Fourth of July?

Creativity as Ultimate

Immensities: Loren Eiseley, Thomas Oord, Whitehead, and Emerson

Process and Intercessory Prayer: Marjorie Suchocki

Eternal Objects

Mazes of Life

The RSA Report on Spirituality
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David Bohm

Process Theopoetics

​Inter-becoming

Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President​

When process-relational thinkers say relational, what do they mean?

The Compassionate Police Officer in a Compassionate City

Beverly's Lament: Jesus said love your enemies but he didn't know Donald Trump

A Southerner Reflects on Her Racist Heritage

Iqbal: A Process Poet

​Donald Trump’s Photo-Op and the Essence of Christianity​

Anaïs Maviel: Without Great Black Music

A Yoga of World Solidarity: Inspiration from Catherine Keller

George Floyd Believed in a God of Fresh Starts

Our Paths Meet: Ten Ideas Concerning God for Muslims and Christians

Meet Dr. Lupe Llanes: Process Philosopher in Venezuela​
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Message to Nice People.  It's not about Personal Prejudice. The System of White Supremacy is the Original Sin.

Compassion Education for an Ecological Civilization

Enough of Moral Outrage.  How about a Passion for Compassion?

Wade in the Water - Gospel Music - Love Supreme: Podcasts on the History of African American Sacred Music

​The Cobb Institute and its Friends

A Beloved Civilization: King’s Dream and Covid-19​

Process and the God of COLOR: Learning from Courtney Ariel

I Thought I Had Outgrown Religion:​ Science Fiction, Spirituality, and the Deep Imagination

Process Theology in Six Minutes

​Sticking Our Heads in the Sand

Beyond Mere Interconnectedness: The Hunger for Love and Delight

Earth as Original Monastery

Harnessing the Imagination: Carol Rose

Now is the Time to Practice Beauty

Process and Hip Hop: Jon Gill

Artistic Creativity as Spiritual Practice: An Example from Islamic Culture

The Creatively Sober Life in Process Perspective

Rubbing Fire into Your Life: Process and the Poetic Life

Yes, I am a Druid.  And Process, too.

The Twenty Third Psalm in an Age of Transition

Two Questions for John Cobb about China

Whitehead and Twelve Principles of Education

Whitehead and Little Richard: A Hunger for Intensity, Human and Divine

Am I, too, meant to be a Mother of God?

Having an Ear for Devotional Language: What Traditional Christians Can Miss in Process Theology

Letting Go and Letting God: Letter to a Recovering Addict

Staying Inside with a Little Help from My Friends

Interpreting Sacred Texts

Hunker is a Verb

Organic Marxism, Process Philosophy, and Chinese Thought​

​Eshet Hayil – modern version​
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Hope from Peaches

Might I, too, Live a Poetic Life?

Hope from the World's Oldest Known Bird: Wisdom the Albatross​

Which Way Do We Choose Going Forward?

Hinge Moments: Disruptions of Life's Journey

This Ramadan -  Resist Rigid Ritualism; Recognise Divine Receptivity

From Emergency to Emergence: David Korten on The New Economy​

What's Happening in the Process Movement Today? and Process Connections: The Emerging Process Movement and Partners in Process: The Emerging Process Community

And Macrina Laughed: A Tribute to Macrina Wiedekerhr

Ramadan in Process Perspective

From Worldview to Virtues: The Maturing of a Process Theologian​

Gratitude to Björk:  ​Biophilia, Paganism, Panentheism, and Polytheism

Can Earth Day be Exciting Again? The Cobb Eco-Academy and Process Communitarianism

Learning to Cha-Cha as a Process Practice: The Feeling Textures of Life

Process and Silence: The Habit and Practice of Silence in Process Theology

Donating my Wedding Dress: A Pakistani Sharing

Food and Faith: Links and Resources
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Food and Faith: Center for Process Spirituality

It's Not Just a Speed Bump: Philip Clayton's Four Questions

Metaphysical Evolutions: ​Process Studies in Venezuela

​Coronavirus Is Not An Enemy Rather A Courier 

The Religion of Freedom and Kindness

A Rabbit as My Guide: Lessons from Hunny Bun

​All I Have to Do is Dream? Well, It's Part of It.

The Hallelujah Chorus and an Easter Prayer: The Center for Process Spirituality

Yes, God is in Control but through Love not Predestination

​Yes, God is in Control

Music Drawn from Jewish Traditions

Re-foresting, Re-wilding, and Re-civilizing ​

What Can Colleges and Universities Learn from a Pandemic?

Thank You, John Prine

Top Ten Albums of All Time

Our Troubled Time: Getting Perspective as a Muslim

Suffering ≠ Shame: A Lesson of Palm Sunday

God and the Deep: Whitehead, Wallace Stevens, and Catherine Keller

Three Promises I'm Making: After Reading "Letter from Catherine Keller"

The Many Become One and are Increased by One: Zen and Whitehead and Wallace Stevens

The Truest Creativity: Wisdom from Catherine Keller and Nick Cave​
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Free Falling: A Way Other Than Our Own

Did God Create the World out of Nothing? Ask John Cobb

Constructive Postmodernism Is a Better Choice: Interview with Zhihe Wang

Wash Your Hands and Be Kind: Faith in a Time of Pandemic by Bruce G. Epperly

From Hugs to Bows: Springboards for Reflection on Post-Pandemic Community​
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​Robert Burrell: Composing Music for Ecological Civilizations

The Twenty Third Psalm in a Pandemic Age
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Economic Flourishing after the Pandemic: Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics

On Being Fully Alive in the Circumstances at Hand: A Process Philosophy of Flourishing

Experiencing the Sacred in the Present

Clapping from my Balcony: Sharing our Humanity with help from Sheri Kling

God and the Delivery Driver in a Threatened and Unjust World

Love Song of the Blue Jay: The Perfect Indifference of Songbirds

Dear God or Bill Gates: A Nursing Home Prayer
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​Fear: Not My Favorite Spiritual Companion

​A Need for the Mystical: Why Process Theology Needs Howard Thurman​

​Four J's Singalong

​John Cobb Addresses Chinese Students Online

Faith on the Edge: Podcasts on Process Theology

Hope in the Age of Coronavirus

Le-Hayim: Jewish Wisdom for a Time of Pandemic

Practicing Process Theology While Alone or at Home: The Reverence Project

Not Getting Out as Much? Finding Gladness in a Time of Social Distancing

Fifty One Days of Quarantine in Wuhan: One Woman's Story

A Short Note on Interpreting the Qur'an Existentially

Being Swept Up and Away: Finding Courage When Fear Calls Our Name

A Short Note on Interpreting the Qur'an Existentially

Interpreting Scripture as a Co-Creative Activity

Re-thinking the Modern University: Marcus Ford

God without a Hamzat Suit: Open and Relational Theology in a Pandemic Time

Career Counseling from a Pomegranate Tree: A Relational Worldview Meets Gary Nabhan

Process Theology, the Coronavirus, ​and the Challenge of World Loyalty

Kindness and Beauty: If I were a Missionary in New York City

True Protest is Beauty: Phil Ochs, Process Theology, and Islam
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Without Poetry, What? Finding Your Inner Ozark with help from Wendy Taylor Carlisle
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Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens: Faith as Openness to Pluralism

I'm Looking for a Way:  Process Theology and the Way Collective

Islamic and Christian Approaches to Ecology: Comparing John Cobb and Seyyed Nasr​

The America I Believe In: Sophia Said

"H" is for Humility: A Smudge of Ashes

The Eco-Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Flowers and Guns: Music by Daniel De Togni, Reflection by John Cobb

Marian Anderson: Denied a Stage, She Sang for a Nation

The Kitchen Sink as Sanctuary: Terry Tempest Williams

Brian McLaren and Process Theology

Ann Lamott and Process Theology
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Do You Think You are Superior to Us? Fatoumata Diawara​

Lei Liang - A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams
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Christian Process Theology and Richard Rohr on the Universal Christ

The Universal Christ: Eternal Companion, Radiant Energy, Creative Transformation

Bowing at the Gates of Injustice: Goodness and Humility as Protest
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The Church of Sonic Wandering: Imagining a Church with Open Ears

Polyhymnia: Notes for a Jazz Mass

God and Artistic Creativity:  A Process Appreciation of Islamic Art 

English in China Today

Creativity Galore: A Glimpse of the Food Culture of Wuhan, China

Salvation by Dumplings: An East-West Friendship

Learning English in China: A Chinese Teacher's Perspective
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Education in Process Perspective: Xie Bangxiu and Jay McDaniel

Flagstaff College: A Very Small College on a Very Big Mission

Christian Process Theology: Its Early Phase

A Lovely Luminosity: On Being Pleasantly Becobbed

The Gift of Chaos

The Future of the Process Movement

What is My Vocation? by John B. Cobb, Jr.

Existential Ijtihad
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Trust the Spirit: Process Theology Meets Richard Rohr

Process Franciscan Theology: Process Theology Meets Richard Rohr

Salvation by Marimba: A Process Appreciation

Progressive friends, What are your Best Tips for Surviving the Era? A Process Response

Being the First to Extend Greetings: Practicing the Process Way of Living

Following Jesus

The Land of the Free and the Home of the Morally Courageous?  Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, and Aretha Franklin

Listening for Names: Responding to a Poem by Dea Jenkins
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God is Life and Life is Holy: A Moment of Torah

1917: Watching War Movies as a Spiritual Practice
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Helping Those Who Can Sing but Not Speak: Melodic Intonation Therapy as Practicing the Presence of God

Reflection on Christian God-Talk: Paul Ingram

Angels are Made of Light: Film Trailer and Discussion

Prayer to the Giraffe God
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​Dynamic Omniscience and Human Freedom
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​Process Theology Anne Lamott Style: Can Process Theology Be Inspirational, Too?

And Breathe Normally: A Socially Literate Film on Immigration and Friendship

Cousins on a Journey: Resource Page for Interfaith Seminar on Abrahamic Faiths

Man Cannot Live by Drumming Alone: A Tribute to Neil Peart of Rush

Every Crevice a Story: The Boulder as Teacher

280 Billion Songbirds Lost.  ​My Grief is Complete.  A Poem. 

Liberating the Bible: Contextual Bible Studies and Process Theology

Thou Shalt Not Talk About Me So Much: The Shyness of God and the Humble Heart

​Process Theology and the Bible: How Science Has Changed Our View of God

What does an Open and Relational Bible Study Look Like? What are the Group Dynamics?

​Good Enough for Now: A Practice for Perfectionists

Steven Universe for President

Divine Flexibility: Being Seekers Rather Than Settlers

Beyond Rigidity: Iqbal, Whitehead, and a New Religious Existentialism​

Their Dichotomy is a Kind of Harmony: Reflections on "The Two Popes"

Our Wonderfully Crowded Table: A Place for Everyone (Except Maybe Uncle Bob)​

O Holy Night: An Open and Relational Perspective on Christmas Eve

O Holy Night: A Process Understanding of Christmas Eve

O Holy Night: A Short Reflection on Christmas Eve

China's Spiritual Awakening and Process Philosophy
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I Wish I Had a River I Could Skate Away On

God's Command to Have Fun: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

​God's Command to Have Fun: Spirituality as Merrymaking

It Begins by Opening the Eyes: Open and Relational Theology on Contemplative Prayer

An Interfaith Reflection on Walls: Shah and McDaniel

The Grace of the Semicolon: A Process Approach

Don't Bow: Grace Jill Schireson

Sometimes I Wake Up Fuming: American Rage (The Piano Version)

John Cobb on Patriotism

"W" is for Wonder

An Open and Relational Approach to Patriotism: John Cobb
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Steven Universe: The Need for a Kind and Caring (Cartoon) Savior

With Ear Against Bark I Listen: Pagan Theopoetics from Kathleen Jacobson

Dear Future Feelings of My Young Son Jesus

The Bible as a Cat Lady: A Poem and a Thought

Funerals for Dead Glaciers: Need Music

Ecological Grief, Seminary Education, and Funerals for Lost Glaciers

​Finding Traction in ​The Darkness and The Light: Nita Gilger

It's Not a Thing but a Life: A Christian Reflection on Truth

Dressing Like Mister Rogers for Love's Sake

John Cobb on Biblical Inspiration and Interpretation

Democracy and the Divine: Patricia Adams Farmer

The Hope of Advent

The Act of Creative Ijtihad

The Thing about Mister Rogers: He Told us We were Lovable
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Film Review​

Let's Stay Connected

Expanding Circles of Thanks: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Jake Comes Home From College (and wants to talk about global climate change)​

I Miss Christianity

First Snow: A Poem by Susannah Stubbs

The Mystics: Kathleen Jacobson

Mysteries of the Macabre: Beautifully Going Bonkers with Soprano Barbara Hannigan

Pieces that Fall to Earth: The Dome of Heaven is Made of Feathers

​Follow Your Inner Moonlight: Notes on Allen Ginsberg and Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematical Mysticism: Srinivasa Ramanujan as The Man Who Knew Infinity

Does God think in Metaphors? Notes on Process Theology, Open Theism, Metaphor Making, and the Theology of John Sanders

Becoming a Window Maker: Creating Openings as a Process Practice
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Becoming a Window Maker: Creating Openings as an Open and Relational Practice​

Becoming a Window Maker: Creating Openings as a Spiritual Practice

A Whiteheadian Reflection on Subjective Immortality: Lewis Ford and Marjorie Suchocki

What is an Ecological Civilization and How do you Practice It?

What the World's Religions can learn from Irish Pub Music

Eating Popcorn as a Spiritual Practice: Joanna ES Campbell

A Feeling for Life: ​Howard Thurman, Process Theology, and Ecological Civiization

Tibetan Buddhist Process Theology: Springboards for Reflection

Open and Relational Tibetan Buddhism

Four Ways of Relating Science and Religion: Conflict, Independence, Dialogue, Integration

Prayer to an Exuberant God: Elaine Padilla and the Spiritual Alphabet

An Olive Wood Cup: A Short Theology of Holy Communion

In Praise of Short Theologies

Dear God, Don't let Daddy hurt Mama: Allison Moorer and Process Theology

The Church Now Among You: JJ Warren and a Young Methodist Prayer

The Molecular Biologist as Shaman

The Universal Song: Process Theology and the Wisdom of David Steindl-Rast

Widening Out into Beauty: Growing into an Open-Ended Life

Eating Chocolate as Contributing to God's Enjoyment 

The God of Chocolate

Essential Kenosis and the God of Chocolate

Theological Reflection as Poetry

Losing Passion for Worldly Success: How Zen and Whitehead and Jesus ruined Me

Imagining a Daesoon Process Theology

Freedom from Success: A Christian Option 

We do not Need more successful People: David Orr Quote

Like Oaks, Like Cacti: The Resilient Heart​

Do I Believe in God?  A Springboard for Discussion

Non Today, Non Tomorrow, Non Forever: In Praise of the Worldwide Non Network

The Great Sadness: Patricia Adams Farmer

Silence: The Art of Odilon Redon

​Praying without Knowing: Christians learning from Derrida

Smartwoods: Ecology and the Need for Mystery

The Preciousness of Religion for Wisdom-Seeking Atheists: A Word from Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Wild Horses: An Open and Relational Appreciation

Holy Forgetting: Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Country Music: Film Review

An Introduction to Process Philosophy: Cosmology, Ethics, Spirituality, and Culture

Today in Chapel We Confessed to Plants: In Appreciation of a Worship Service at Union Theological Seminary​

O God My Grandma

​How Many Genders Does God Have?  Maybe More Than We Can Imagine

Life with a Broken Wing

One Life and One Life and One Life: The Counting of Lost Lives

Cara Hochhalter: Making Art as Biblical Interpretation​

Jesus the Peacemaker: Printmaking and Biblical Interpretation

The Practice of Neurocosmopolitanism as a Spiritual Virtue

How Autism Feels, From the Inside: NY Times Video

Loving My Uncle the Classical Theist

Maggie the Pseudo-Beagle: Barkley Thompson

The Spaciousness of Uncertainty: A Place for Love

The Gospel of Eureka: Queerly Good News in Eureka Springs, Arkansas​

A Divided America: Six Ways to Get Along with People who seem Totally Wrong

How the Songs of Bruce Springsteen can Mentor a Life

Really now, can a CEO of a large corporation be a Christian, too?

Process Meets Recovery: Boston John

Faith on the Edge Podcasts with Bruce Epperly
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God is Becoming: Consolation in the Face of Tragedy

Faith on the Edge Podcasts with Bruce Epperly

The Need to Adore: Process Theology Meets Rumi
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The Difficult Way
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A Spirituality in Playlists: Musical Patchworks as Lures for Feeling

What is the "Relational" Part of Open and Relational Theology?

Spirit Bathing for the Worried and Beleaguered​

What if God is Real but doesn't Exist? Questions from a Post-Evangelical Seeker to Open and Relational Theologians
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Keep Dreaming, Never Stop: the Turkish Art Rock of Gaye Su Akyol

What is the Place of Silent Prayer in Open and Relational Theologies?

Process Pluralism as an antidote to the Ideology of Hate: David Brooks

Learning Vietnamese as a Way of Practicing Process Spirituality

Angels are Made of Light: Film Review

Why Would a Professor of U.S. History Study Vietnamese?

Is there an app for Faith?

Reflecting on Right Speech: A Muslim and Christian Approach

Interfaith Meals for a Healthy Planet

Process Theology and Parkinson's Disease​

Michaelene Miller: Process, Frisbee, and Prayer

Mitzvot from the Planet: Process Theology and Food

How the Local Food Movement Can Transform Race Relations in America

Perpetual Wonder as a Spiritual Virtue

My Father (아빠): Filial Piety and a Daughter's Love

Time for Ilhan Omer: Film Review

The Korean Haegum (奚琴) and Spirituality

The Divinity of Rice: Jea Sophia Oh

Sharing Recipes as a Relational Practice: A Dialogue on Chinese Tea Leaf Eggs

Relational Power in a Multipolar World
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In Praise of Earthism: Some Idolatries are So Much Better than Others

Facing the Future without Fear: A Talk by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Commentary by Lexie Burleson

Hot-and-Dry Noodles in China: Where Whitehead's Philosophy Meets Chinese Food Culture

Listening to Detained Migrant Children: Participating in God's Aims

"O God of Love, Did You Have a Bad Week?" Request for a Hymn with this Title

Process Theology for Teens and Young Hearts

Give Us This Day our Daily Rage: A Nation Addicted to Anger

My Almost Constantly Furious President: The Thrill of Boiling Over

Islam and Christianity on Wholeness: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

Islam and Christianity on Psychological Well-Being: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

​Buffaloes, Butterflies & Borders

Revaluing the Values of Science, Religion, and Education: John B. Cobb, Jr.

Love in the Messiness of Real-Life Relationships

Sex Trafficking in the US: Review of "Skin in the Game"

Goodbye, Earth: The Failure of "Adults" to Care for the Planet

"P" is for Play: Patricia Adams Farmer

Neanderthal Pulsewave: Primitive Motion, Cradle of the Horizon, and Process Theology

The Turtle My Teacher

Yesterday: A Film Review

​A Lovely Luminosity: Why Process Thought Inspires Me and Everything I Write (Patricia Adams Farmer)

Yes to Sex, Yes to Intimacy, and No to Pornography: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

Process Theology and Multifactorial Healing: Bruce Epperly

Extravagant Colors as Healing Spaces: The Art of Marilyn Biles

Yes to Miracles, No to Omnipotence

Progressive Islam: An Emerging yet Traditional Alternative

Dear James Dobson: A Letter from Delores on Immigration

Joe Lombardi's Spirit: A Song for the Earth

The Moral Imagination: From Conflict Resolution to Social Healing

​Traditional Chinese Medicine and Whitehead

The Difference Between Curing and Healing 

The Role of Soft Touch in Healing

The San Francisco Girl's Chorus: Empowerment and Transformation through Choral Music

Idin Samimi Mofakham - آیدین صمیمی مفخم

Is Iqbal Relevant Today?  Question to a Muslim Philosopher

​Muhammad Iqbal as a Constructively Postmodern Muslim Philosopher

Becoming Ecozoic: Fifteen Forward-Looking Academics offer a Progressive Agenda for Higher Education
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Is LIberal Democracy Over? What Comes Next? The Rise of Ethnic Nationalisms in Europe

What is the role of a Muslim Philosopher in a Pluralistic Age?

Color Things Differently: What Christians, Jews, and Muslims can learn from Hip-Hop Country

​Using the Spiritual Alphabet in Congregational Life

M is for Meaning: Patricia Adams Farmer

Wilderness and Interdependence: A Reflection

Marriage and Parenting: A Process Approach

The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Film Review
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Sheri D. Kling: Whitehead, Jung, and Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness

Pat Brentano: The Artist as Visual Guide for an Ecological Civilization

The Biggest Little Farm: Documentary Film Review

Reflections on War and Its Effects: The Courage We Need
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Can a Muslim be a Panentheist? Ask a Muslim Philosopher

Spiritual Alphabet: Questionnaire for self-examination and ​community development

The Lavender Scare: Film Review

Trying to Understand the Practice of Trusting: Nita Gilger  ​​

The Education of Feeling: A Spiritual Alphabet for Ecological Civilizations
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Playful Obfuscation and Electronic Buddhist Mourning: The Art of Pisitakun (Thailand)

The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans: Link to the NY Times Podcast and Obituary

Hurray for the Average Child

Whitehead's Empirical Aesthetic: William Dean​
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The Visitation: An Encounter with Beauty

비자아: Buddhist No-Self in a Dark and Digital World
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T is for Transformation: Patricia Adams Farmer

Sheri Kling: Whitehead and Jung, God's Nearness and God's Wholemaking

মশ্তিষ্কের কণ্ঠশ্বর | Voices in my head: Introducing Tavishi to the Open Horizons Community

The Sonic Side of Reincarnation: Listening to Death and Rebirth through Experimental Electronic Music of Sabiwa

The Image Book (Le livre d’Image): Review by Micah Bucey

Kate Tempest: Spoken Word Poetry, Influences, and Springboards for Reflection

Shut Up, Bono!  Against Western Music Imperialism
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Knock Down the House: Film Review

The Impatience of the Holy Spirit: Forging a Path between "Us" and "Them"

Can Trees Make Us Happier?: Ecological Civilizations, Mental Health, and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

Listening to your Sighs: Non-Verbal Dimensions of Empathic Receptivity

Can Islam Be Reformed? A Short Note on the Concept of Reform in Islam

Gene Reeves: Christian - Unitarian - Universalist - Buddhist

Facing the Buried Horrors: MIcah Busey Reviews the Horror Film US​
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The White Power Movement in the US and its Transnational Aspirations: Links and Podcasts

Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano): A Film Review

A Critical View of Inherited Theology

Christ in the Messy Middle: Eight Ideas that Come to Mind While Reading Amy Young

Mothers: Springboards for Reflection

A Call to Transformation: Graduating as a (Lifelong) Spiritual Practice

Liquid Modernity: Zygmunt Bauman

God, Are You Looking for Me? Nita Gilger on Owning the Shadow

The Beautiful Smallness of God: Jean Vanier, Christianity, and the Wisdom of Tenderness

The Desire for Things to End Well: Whitehead and Julian of Norwich

We Live in a Terrible Time: Heavy Metal (Doom) Music as a Shot of Aliveness in an Ecocidal World

Ramadan as a Holy and Humanistic Calling

Movie Trailers as Springboards for Soulful Conversation

Are Chemicals Creative? The New Understanding of "Nature"

Self-Organization and Agency: In Chemistry and Process Philosophy

A Biologist Looks at Process Thought (L. Charles Birch)

Game of Thrones: The Spiritual and Religious Side
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The Church's False Witness Against Jews

Tank and the Bangas: Theopoetic Notes

Unbepissed and other Forgotten Words in the Oxford English Dictionary

Relationships as the Spiritual Web of our Lives

The Best of Enemies: Film Review​

Quantum Mechanics, Local Causality, and Process Philosophy: Henry Pierce Stapp

Whitehead's Theory of Relativity

Global Climate Change: Who Gives a Crap? We Do.

So This is What Leadership Looks Like:  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

The Future is Open: Wisdom from the Hebrew Bible
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Global Climate Change: Who Gives a Crap?  We Do.  

With Hearts Linked Together: Joean Oon Siew Kee, Eco-Enzymes, and the Philosophy of Relationships

You were Strangers: The Ethical Significance of Passover

Mary Magdalene: Film Review

Good Friday: A Moment without a Heartbeat

What is the Role of Spirituality in an Ecological Civilization?

So This is What Happened to Me: Ellen Reid's Prize Winning Opera on Sexual Abuse​

God and the Alone: A Reflection by Leslie Muray

Earth Day: Twelve Spiritual Practices to Honor the Earth

Love's Oblivion: A Reflection for Holy Monday​

Process and Flow: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Alfred North Whitehead

Wesley the Process Theologian: An Essay by John Cobb

Reading the Qur'an: The Quality of a Believer's Heart and Mind

Process Spirituality: A Very Short Introduction

How Can I Explain Non-Attachment to my Non-Buddhist Husband?  Ask a Zen Teacher

The Unity of a Theatrical Event: In Appreciation of Adolphe Appia

Original Sin Revisited: Marjorie Suchocki

Advice to a Young Writer: Patricia Adams Farmer

Learning from an Albatross named Wisdom: Martha Johnson and Jay McDaniel

How Might I Raise My Daughter As Muslim? Ask a Muslim Mother

Weaving the World: Feminist Theology and Process Theology

It's Not Just What We Do, It's How We Think: the Need to Reevaluate and Reconstruct Islamic Thought

A Buddhist-Christian Critique  of Neo-Liberal Economics

Blessed are the Caregivers: Film Review of "Diane"

Finding a Way Forward When Your Father Dies: Nita Gilger

Elisapie - Arnaq - Reverence
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The Madina Institute and its Interfaith Outreach: A Christian Appreciation

Macrina Wiedekehr: Ever Flowing and Ten Life Lessons​

The Practice of Not-Knowing: Single Buddhist Dad

Mothers of God

Loving Friends with Alzheimer's

The Liminal Life: Whiteheadian Reflections on Liminality

​Amplifying Silent Voices: What the Next Generation is Thinking About

I've Been Working on the Set List: Performing for Senior Citizens

On Being Kings and Queens for an Ecological Civilization: Exploring a Chinese Character

Saint Patrick: The Perfect Saint for Lent

Where Does Such Tenderness Come From? 

Spare the Prayers and Still we Pray: After the Violence in New Zealand

Whitehead and the Transpersonal Mind: Can Exceptional Experiences Help Save the World?
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How we Speak, Not Just what we Say: Rabbi Bradley Artson​

Learning from Rock Owls in Bryce Canyon: Nita Gilger

A Call to Deeper Places: The Owl as My Teacher

LGBTQ Persons and Christianity: A Word of Support from an Episcopal Priest

Loving in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

The Holiness of Dogs: A Reflection by Bruce Epperly

International Women's Day: What Have Men to Say?

We Carry Their Names: A Daily Practice Inspired by Torah
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Marian Anderson: Persuasive Power as the Beautiful Voice

Missing Bland Crowder: Why Sustainability Needs Poetry

"J" is for Justice: Jay McDaniel

Is it alright to be an orthoox Christian but with leanings toward process theology?  

"J" is for Joy: Patricia Adams Farmer

The Center for Process Spirituality in Arkansas

"A" is for Attention: Patricia Adams Farmer

"B" is for Being Present: Patricia Adams Farmer

"B" is for Beauty: Patricia Adams Farmer
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"C" is for Connections: Patricia Adams Farmer

Claiming your inner Roma: Thoughts after reading a Review

Those Who Practice the Way: A Homily for Michael

Tractors and Squirrels Expounding Dharma: Shoryu Bradley

Process and Pastoral Care: Bruce Epperly

Ecotheology and Ecological Civilizations: Ideas and Practices

Wherever It Falls: New Music with Arab Roots

What is Ecotheology and How do you Practice it?

Wisdom in Your Hands: In Appreciation of the Cobb Ecological Academy in China

Ask a Muslim Philosopher: Is it OK to think new thoughts?

Spinning Wool: Empathy for Fiber as Healing the World

At Last My Love Has Come Along (Love Songs You Love to Love)

​Will an Ecological Civilization be Fun? Is there Room for Joy and Spirituality in the Ecological Movement?

Ecological Civilization, the Sunrise Movement, and the Green New Deal​
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"H" is for Hospitality: Patricia Adams Farmer

Inhabit Your Situation: Epictetus, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Whitehead

Ruth, the Song of Songs, and Brandi Carlile: Resources for a Morning Devotional

Imagining the Faith of Lady Gaga: A Theopoetic Exploration

The Church of Dolly Parton

Boo Bah Bah: A Daily Dose of Constructive Weirdness

China's Ecological Civilization: Our Common Great Opportunity (Zhihe Wang)
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Why Should Christians Study the Buddhist Way? Paul O. Ingram

Eighth Grade: What is Faith to a Shy, Lonely, Thoughtful Thirteen Year Old?
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Why are some Young Chinese drawn to Process Thought?  It's a Lifestyle

"Tidying Up" as a Spiritual Practice: Marie Kondo brings a little Shinto to the World

Old Stoves and New Life: Reflecting on a Photograph by Thomas Oord
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Dear Rabbi: Is it OK to shift back and forth between thinking of God as a force and thinking of God as a person?

Theopoetics: What is It?

The New Process Theology: International, Multireligious, Practical, Theopoetic

Open Theism and Process Theology: A Reflection

Can Process Theology Affirm Creatio-Ex-Nihilo and Divine Self-Limitation?

Lessons from a Baptist Preacher: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yearning: Thawing Cold Wars in the Heart

Mary Oliver and the World of Everywhere: Patricia Adams Farmer

Attuned to the Horizontal Sacred: Why Process Theology needs Mary Oliver

Leaning Out for Love: Reflecting on "God Can't" by Thomas Oord

Alternative Worlds: Ursula Le Guin, Process Theology, and the Kesh People

The Problem of Walls in the Head

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

May We Chant OM in Church? 

V is for Vision: Patricia Adams Farmer

Why Engage in Dialogue? A Muslim and Christian Perspective

The Rich Man: An Essay by Paul Ingram

Nine Ways to Combat Islamophobia: Farhan Shah and Jay McDaniel

Science isn't just about "How" and Religion isn't just about "Why"

Islam and Divine Omnipotence: A Relational Approach

Can God Say Pshhh? The Feeling of "Yeah, Whatever" as a Holy Emotion
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No Picking, No Choosing: A Zen Reflection by Johnathon Pendall 
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The Physician-Patient Relationship in Relational Perspective: A Short Note

​Welcome Aylin: The Birth of a Child ​in Process Perspective

The Calling of a Muslim Philosopher: Farhan Shah

The Radical Vision of Ecological Civilization: Wm. Andrew Schwartz

Ask a Rabbi: Is it OK to be Spiritual but not Religious?​
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On Becoming a Muslim Public Intellectual: Farhan Shah

All Musical Truth Resides in the Body:​ Meredith Monk's Art as Primal Theopoetics

The Spiritual Side of Meredith Monk: Primal Theopoetics

Baha'i and Unitarian Universalism: Religions of "Oneness and Manyness"

Should I Major in Philosophy?

​​Vive La Process Revolution: A Call from Generation Z

Reinterpreting Job

Learning to Love What We Can't Control

Black Metal Evensong: A Song by Panopticon

Young Wesleyans: What if God is really Love?

Jesus: A King Like None Other (A Sermon for Christ the King Sunday)

John Cobb's Idea of Earthism in Video form

John Cobb in China

U is for Unity: Patricia Adams Farmer

The Ten Temptations of Consumerism (and the Post-Materialist Alternative)

Thinking about God in Human-Like Metaphors: Loving Parent and Sovereign King

Imagining a Methodist Buddhist

Does God ever get Tired of Being Worshiped and Praised? 

What is my Mission in Life? Gratitude for a Sermon by Robert Williamson Jr.

Finding the Spirit at Work in the World: A Sermon by Robert Williamson

So What is Christianity, Anyway?  Introducing Christianity in a World's Religions Course

Three Camps in Christianity and the Liberal Option: A Rough Guide by Douglas Todd​

There's a Light Inside Us: The Power of Music for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's

​Gyobutsuji and the Environment: Practicing with all Beings by Shoryu Bradley

Becoming a Drop of Kindness: Yungchen Lhamo, Tibetan Buddhism, and Whitehead

On Her Shoulders: Review of Documentary on Young Yazidi Woman, Nadia Murad

China and Creative Postmodern Wu-Wei

Process Theophonetics: From the Meaning of Words to the Meanings of Sounds

The Message of Muhammad Iqbal: A Short Note by Farhan Shah

Whitehead's Sonic Ontology and its Performance in Sound Poetry​

Sonic Bardos: Listening to Maarja Nuut and Ruum's Music with Spiritually Sensitive Ears

I Grew Up in Pittsburgh: My Jewish Community is Stronger than Hate

Iqbal, Whitehead, and Islam: A Short Note by Farhan Shah

How I've Changed: A Religion Professor Retires

Memory as Imagination: The Invitation of All Saints' Day
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Claiming Your Inner Mermaid: Gyða Valtýsdóttir's Evolution

Jeffrey Schloss: An Evolutionary Biologist and his belief in God

After the Synagogue Attack: A Muslim and Christian Appreciation of Rabbi Bradley Artson's Response

Electronically Queer Heterotopias:​ The art of Tara Transitory and ​Justyna Stasiowska
 
Pauline Oliveros and Process Theology

An Emotionally Intelligent Nation: Is it too much to ask?

Humanistic Islam for the 21st century

The Sonic Side of Race: Race, Sound, and Process Theology

Marissa Nadler's For My Crimes: The Spiritual Side

Jazz and Korean Bibimbap: Jea Sophia Oh

Toad Suck Buck's Restaurant

The Power of Touch

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

A Sexual God: Robert Williamson on the Song of Solomon

Navaratri: Celebrating the (Post-Patriarchal) Divine Feminine

On the Nature of Thingness: The Role of Pure Potentials

"I" is for Imagination: Patricia Adams Farmer

Pop Songs as Postmodern Angels
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Quiet Club, with Richard Reed Parry: A Playlist and Commentary

Practicing the Hindu Way of Life in America

Why Christians Turn to Buddhism: Six Reasons

What's Up, Patriarchy? Lady Gaga, Fem-Country-Punk, and the Book of Esther

The Mystery of Chi

Rumi's Gift: A Resource Page on Sufism

Sufism Resource Page

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

The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi

What's to Love about Top Forty Pop Music?  A Theological Appreciation

More than Frankie Cosmos? An Interview with Greta Kline
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L'Rain and the Spiritual in the Secular

The One Thus Gone: A Sample of Contemporary Music Based on Buddhist Chants and Prayer

Eight Forms of Mysticism: Process Theology in a Multi-Religious Context

Beyond the Idea of a Single Ultimate named "God"

Practicing Hinduism in America

God and Hurricanes: A Reflection by John Cobb on God and Natural Disasters

The Purpose of God and the Buddha are the Same: To Love Everybody with a Sincere Heart

To Love Everybody with a Sincere Heart: The Chu Tzi Foundation

Process Theology Folk Songs: Meet Emily Melcher, Musical Minister

Playing Hide and Seek with God

Florence + the Machine: A Theology of "Big God"

Virtuous Conversations: Verbal, Musical, and Ecological

Jon Guthrie: A Life Well-Lived

The King: Elvis Presley as a Metaphor for the Rise and Decline of America

The Aesthetic and the Ethical: John Cobb

A Meditation on Finding God in the Now: Paul Ingram

If God is Love, What's Love Got to Do with It? Gregory Hamlin
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Meet Tommy Zhang: A Process Businessman in China

Buddhism Video Page

Say Something I'm Giving Up on You

"S" is for Silence: Patricia Adams Farmer

"H" is for Hope: Patricia Adams Farmer

Where is Lived Experience in Whitehead?

From a Worldview to a Way of Living: The Transformation of Process Thought in China

The Bread I Give is My Flesh: Reflecting on Holy Communion

Musicking for a More Compassionate World

A Wider, Funkier Faith: Robert Williamson and the Forgotten Books of the Bible
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Reclaiming the Republic of Stories: Dedicated to Arlene Goldbard

Let there be Tortillas: Toward a Process Theology of Mexican Food

Toward a Culture of Dignified Debate: Farhan Shah

Ephemeral: Introducing Whitehead's Principle of Process Visually, Musically, and Verbally

Starry, Starry Night: Reflections on Prayer, Process Theology, Whitehead and Vincent van Gogh

Wishing for a Song: Anne Goldberg on the Power of Music
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Down-to-Earth Theology: Learning from Mayra Rivera​
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Whitehead and Zen Buddhism: Some Connections

Pakistan: The Birth of New Ideals (Farhan Shah)

Ecological Civilization as a Holistic Transformation: Dr. Meijun Fan

Emerging Hopes in China: The Sunshine Eco-Village, Process Thought, and the Resurrection of Tao Yuanming

Three Needs for a Better World: Organic Worldviews, Creation Stories, and Creative Local Expressions

Here to Get Your Hopes Up: Practical Examples of the World's Better Hope

Becoming an Eco-Person (生态人)

​Tong (通) as Walking on an Open Road: Chinese Process Thinking (Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan)

Why Ecological Civilizations Need Coffee Shops

To Whom Does American Belong?  Do White Americans Really "Deserve" America?

Jesus is not an Urgent Care Physician (Teri Daily)

Moments of Torah with Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson (Three Minute Videos)

Everything We See is Past: Whitehead and the Light Cone Diagram

Marriage and Parenting: Constructive Postmodern Approaches

Whitehead's Idea of God

"G" is for Grace (Patricia Adams Farmer)

The Tao of Elementary Education: A Process Teacher

Music for the Elderly: Health Benefits

Eight Forms of Mysticism

Music for the Elderly: Healing Benefits

Open Horizons China: A Resource Page

My Favorite Coffee Shop: A "Process" Coffee Shop in Harbin, China

Differences Make the Whole Richer: Reflections on Education with Help from a Morning Marker in Harbin, China
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Does the Idea of God's Providence Make Sense: A Reflection by John Cobb

The Practice of Mystery: To Cherish the Baffling

Brother David Steindl-Rast: A Grateful Day and Loving Your Enemies

Whitehead Videos: Reading Process and Reality with help from Twenty Short Videos

Gotta Serve Somebody?  Process Theology and Dylan's Christian Phase

Enjoying a Vivid Mental and Spiritual Life: Why Young Chinese Turn to Process Thinking

I Apologize: Phillip Fletcher

My Life in Rap (So Far): Toki Wright, Remington Harris, Phillip Fletcher

Spirituality and the Embodied Mind: Whitehead and Mark Johnson

Immigration: Twelve Things to Know When Talking about it (Anne Goldberg)
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Reclaiming the Nomadic Spirit: Learning from the Ways of Kyrgys People in Central Asia
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"F" is for Forgiveness (Patricia Adams Farmer)

Which is More Important, the Historical Jesus or the Cosmic Christ? (John Cobb) 
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Should I Understand God Literally or Metaphorically: A Reflection by John Cobb
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Does Science Support Belief in God?  A Note from John Cobb

Suffering through the Present Moment: The Pleasure and Angst of Waiting

Christianizing Secular Music: Is it Watering Down or Creative Transformation?

Process Theology and Popular Music: A Summer Course

La Santa Cecilia: Latin Culture, Rock, and World Music

Music and the Sense of Being Alive: Thandeka's Affect Theology

Sympathy for the Devil: The Transgressive Impulse in Rock Music

Fudge: Bob Mesle

The Early Beatles: You Know You Should Be Glad

Don Viney: Philosopher and Musician
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The Desire for Satisfaction: Thinking about Whitehead with help from the Rolling Stones
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Getting Perspective of Life: Eighteen Teachings of Pope Francis

Barbara Holmes: A Mentor for our Times

The Atheism of Generation Z: Atheism, Agnosticism, Panentheism, and Soft Theism

I am a Process Millennial: Tristan Norman (age 21)

Gina Rendina: The Hunger for Collective Joy and the Calling of a Cruise Ship Vocalist

Metal Music: A Hunger for Transgressive Spiritual Spaces
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The Scope of Spiritual Literacy

Zest for Life: Falling in Love with the Idea of Living as a Spiritual Virtue
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The Man Who Couldn't Grow Up: Two Healing Practices for People who Can't Let Go

Collecting Scraps of Light: The Practice of Gratitude as a Thank You Note to Life

We Live in a Thoroughly Miraculous World
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Sin and Sinning: The Future of Sin and Songs about Sin

The Vulnerability of God in Scripture: Teri Daily

Pete Seeger on Peace, Whitehead, and the National Anthem
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Jewish and Process: Interview with Rabbi Bradley Artson

The Mystical and the Ordinary: Paul Ingram

The Salvation of Elephants: Practicing a Planetary Ethic

Smelling: A Theology

Four Ideas to Live By: The Theopoetics of Maya Angelou

Soft Theism, Generous Non-Theism, and Spacious Agnosticism

F is for Faith

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

Howard Thurman: A Theologian for the 21st Century

Kirtan as (Interfaith) Sacred Music

In a Zen Way: Peter Coyote on Dogen's Zen

​Shamanic Rock: Attila Grandpierre and the Galloping Wonder Stag

Becoming an Interfaith Leader: A Resource Page

Building Ecological Civilizations: The Practical Side

Must Christians Believe in Hell?

No, You Didn't Earn It: Pierre Bourdieu on Social and Cultural Capital

John Cobb on David Korten

The Human Side of Interfaith: A Special Role for Humanism
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Fourth World Aesthetics: Jon Hassell and Whitehead

The Romanticism of Bjork: Paganism, Panentheism, and Biophilia
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Seven Lessons from Brian McLaren
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The Postmodern John Cobb: Deconstructive and Constructive

Slomo: The Man Who Skates to Freedom

Getting Back to the Garden: The Romantic Impulse in Popular Music

The Dao of Basketball: Han Sun and Jay McDaniel
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Finding God in the Garbage and the Flowers

Transgressing Boundaries: The God of Good Friday

When Strangers Meet Musically and Scripturally: Yo-Yo Ma and Scriptural Reasoning

Cacophany and the Deep: Whitehead and Noise Music
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Ten Reasons to like Frederick Buechner

I Feel Good When I Sing With Others: Group Singing as a Spiritual and Social Practice

Too Much Conviction: The Problem of Overly Fervent Belief

Atheism and Faitheism: Springboards for Reflection

Sufjan Stevens: Spirit of My Silence
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Six People in the World with Perfect Parents (and other misfortunes)
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Albert Camus: My Favorite Atheist
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​Pop Harmonies as Windows to God: Gratitude to the Everly Brothers

Novelty Makes the World Go Round: Nietzsche, Whitehead, and Lydia Ainsworth

Too Much Connectedness: Whitehead and Kierkegaard on Solitude
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Being Hear: Listening to Nature as a Way of Recovering Sanity in a Very Troubled World

Joy of Going Bonkers: The Exuberant Music of Anna Meredith

Jazz is the Mother of Hip Hop​

Jazz and Social Justice: Somora Pinterhughes

Joe Davis and the Poetic Diaspora: Pentecostal Theopoetics
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What an Orthodox-Oriented Christian Priest Learns from Process Theology

Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes: Rabbi Bradley Artson Videos

Constructive Guilt as a Blessing from God

Polyrhythmic Theology: Drum Circles within Drum Circles

Hindi-Urdu-English: The Theopoetics of Humeysha​

Feminism and the Courage to Be: Voyaging with the Intimately Ultimate
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God as Abba: John Cobb's Proposal

The Kitchen Sink as Sanctuary: Terry Tempest Williams

HUMAN: The Movie and the Music

Islam, Jazz, and Zen: The Philosophy of ​Abdullah Ibrahim
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​Kate Tempest: The Psychological Costs of War

I Will Survive: The Breakup Song as Spiritual Companion
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Looking out the Window: Being Pleasantly Lost in Thought as a Spiritual Practice
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Cheer the Hell Up: The Theopoetics of David Byrne
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SHE: Alice Phoebe Lou
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Taking a Mr. Rogers Break

Improvisational Healing Spaces: The Art of Marilyn Biles

Feeling the Feelings of Others: The Ambiguous Intensity of Eye Contact
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Spirituality: What Is It? (The RSA Report)
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Remembering Appendicitis: Living with Radical Contingency

Transfiguration: A Lutheran's Journey

What Americans Can Learn from Confucianism

You Never Know: Living with Radical Contingency as a Spiritual Practice
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Black Panther: Metaphysics, Music, Plot

We are all Nurses-in-the-Making

Standing Up for Justice: A Digital Story

Meditation in Prison: The Dhamma Brothers

From Interfaith to Interpolitical: Cultivating Community Amid Political Divides

The Better Angels Project: Conversations Across Political Divides for Social Healing

Greg Gibson and Wayne Lo: Talking with the Man who Killed My Son

Sludge Metal: A Theology

God is Like a Circle Dance: Reclaiming Christianity with Help from Richard Rohr
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My Mom on Drugs: Hope Beyond Addiction

Life after Death as a Context for Soul-Gentling

Breathing with the Universe: Process Theology and Tai Ji
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Guns in America: NY Times Videos

Victor Wooten: Connections between Music and Ecotheology
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Nones: The Rise of the Religiously Unaffiliated
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Philosophy from the Guitar: Chris Mosley of the Grizzly Adams Family
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The Need to Adore: Rumi and Hartshorne

​Finding Grace in a Bowl of Ashes

At Last My Love Has Come Along: The Religious Significance of Popular Love Songs
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​When Your Grandmother Dies: Reflections on Perishing and Immortality
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The Practice of Dreamless Sleep: A Place where God is Found
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Why Listen to Country Music? 

Des Moines, Iowa: The Practice of Pluralism in the American Heartland

When the Light Shines Through: A Sermon on the Transfiguration

Fat Soul Band and Four J's: Musicking for a Better World

Hungarian Rhapsody #2

W.B. Yeats Reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Thirty People with Cheap Tiki Torches: Inside the white supremacy movement
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​Taking a Knee and Taking down a Monument: Divided America (Louisiana)

​Surfing as Spirituality
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Go Fish: A Life in Christ

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

Hip Hop and the Politics of Race: The Personal is Political

The Religious Side of Electronic Dance Music

Finding Your Inner Banjo: A Theology 

Give You My Breath: The Buddhist-Inspired Art of Melissa Gill

Four Kinds of Holy: Jamila Woods
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The Beauty of Imperfection

Where is God in Alzheimer's Disease?
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Where is God in Mental Illness?

Loving You is Complicated: Comfort and Affliction in Hip Hop Theologies

Whatever Makes Us Crumble: Triggers for Trauma

My Life as a Recovering Anorexic
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DAMN. Excerpts from a Review by Rodney Carmichael of Kendrick Lamar's Album
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​"Mary" by Big Thief: Grace through Friendships

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