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2015
- What is the most important issue now being decided? – March 2015
- Does It Make Sense to Identify with Charlie? – February 2015
- Hebrew Scriptures – January 2015
2014
- Why is process philosophy on the margins? – December 2014
- Divine Providence – November 2014
- A Meaningful Life – October 2014
- Tielhard and Whitehead – September 2014
- Wesleyan Theology and Process Theology – August 2014
- What Was Whitehead Wrong About? – July 2014
- Trinity, Substance, and Process – June 2014
- Indwelling Spirit/Christ in process theology – May 2014
- Theology, New Atheism, and Modern Scholarship – April 2014
- Reasons to Hope – March 2014
- A Process Perspective on Dealing with Anger – February 2014
- The Negative Impact of the Trans-Atlantic Partnership – January 2014
2013
- Process Theology and Hegelian-influenced Theology – December 2013
- Process Christians and the Nicene Creed – November 2013
- Most Influential Students – October 2013
- Multiple Religious Belonging – September 2013
- Sacrificial Thinking – August 2013
- Historical Jesus or Cosmic Christ – July 2013
- World-Oriented Mysticism – June 2013
- After Process – May 2013
- No One Process Church – April 2013
- Tao and Creativity – March 2013
- Preferential Option and Process – February 2013
- Obama Second Term – January 2013
2012
- Word and Wordless Prayer – December 2012
- Relativity of Truth or the Truth of Relativity? – November 2012
- Is There One Normative Process Theology? – October 2012
- Beyond Literal Truth and Mere Metaphor – September 2012
- Desperate Times Call for Whiteheadian Measures – August 2012
- Hopes for Process – July 2012
- Process Thought’s Contribution to Societal Change – June 2012
- How do Schleiermacher and Process relate? – May 2012
- Is Process Theology too Western? – April 2012
- Is Whitehead’s Philosophy Atomistic? – March 2012
- Process and Post-Structuralism – February 2012
- God as the Power of the Future – January 2012
2011
- Neuroscience and Physical Determinism – December 2011
- How does Process understand Tillich’s “virtues”? – November 2011
- How can grace operate in a religiously pluralist world? – October 2011
- Is Bill McKibben right? – September 2011
- Thomas Jefferson & the Bible – August 2011
- Christian faith watered down? – July 2011
- Tax spending by Governments – June 2011
- Theologies and the Persistence of Racism – May 2011
- Is it possible to be a Wesleyan and a Process thinker? – April 2011
- Is the Universe a Giant Information Process? – March 2011
- Process Theology & Buddhism – February 2011
- Process Thought & Current Trends in Physics – January 2011
2010
- Does God Have the Power to Protect Us? – December 2010
- Process Theology & Teen Suicide Prevention – November 2010
- Process Philosophy & Economic Theory – October 2010
- Secularizing Christianity – September 2010
- God, the Great Artist – August 2010
- Gulf Oil Spill – July 2010
- Is Process Theology Postmodern? – June 2010
- On Immigration – May 2010
- Belief in God – April 2010
- Whitehead and Freud’s Theory of Eros (Love) & Thanatos (Death) – March 2010
- Practical Implications of Process for Church Life – February 2010
- Confidence in Progress – January 2010
2009
- Israel/Palestine Two-State Solution – December 2009
- Divine Guidance – November 2009
- 9/11 and Process Theology – October 2009
- Where is God Not in War? – August 2009
- Israel and Palestine – July 2009
- Study Process Theology First – June 2009
- Secular or Religious? – May 2009
- Should We Try To Get The Economy Back on Track? – April 2009
- Process & the Light/ Dark Dichotomy – March 2009
- Jews Have a Divine Right to the Land of Israel? – February 2009
- Can We Be Confident of Progress? – January 2009
2008
- Process Theology & Joe Sixpack – December 2008
- Process Theology, Neo-Liberalism, and the Financial Meltdown – November 2008
- Financial Crisis, Cobb on the Wall Street – October 2008
- Science Support Belief in God? – September 2008
- Process Theology Related to Progressive Christianity – August 2008
- Tillich and Whitehead – July 2008
- Interpreting John 14:8 “No one comes to the Father…” – June 2008
- Angels & Demons – May 2008
- Interpreting Jesus: Natural or Supernatural Being? – April 2008
- Polkinghorn Response – March 2008
- Process & 20th century Theology – February 2008
- Process Theology and Islam – January 2008
2007
- Miracles and Mental Influence – December 2007
- Intercessory Prayer – November 2007
- Aesthetic as a Process Value – October 2007
- Assurance and the Experience of God – September 2007
- Christians & Metaphysics – August 2007
- Has Process Theology Backed The Wrong Horse? – July 2007
- Hartshorne and the Chicago School – June 2007
- Bodily Resurrection – May 2007
- Sinless Jesus? – April 2007
- Who is a Whiteheadian? – March 2007
- Inconvenient Truths – February 2007
- Whitehead’s Distinction in Relation to Process Theologians – January 2007
2006
- Global Warming – December 2006
- Atheism – November 2006
- Ethnic Diversity in Churches/Persons-in-Community – October 2006
- Trinity II – September 2006
- Whitehead and Buddhism – August 2006
- Synthesis of Prehended Objects – July 2006
- Theodicy – June 2006
- Free Will – May 2006
- Redemption – April 2006
- Eastern Orthodox & Process – March 2006
- Sociobiology – February 2006
- God & Evil – January 2006
2005
- Creativity and Initial Aim – December 2005
- Prehension & the Self – November 2005
- Intelligent Design – October 2005
- Ensoulment – September 2005
- Goddess Theology – August 2005
- Trinity – July 2005
- Does God Have a Serial Existence? – June 2005
- Initial Aim and “Call” – May 2005
- Marriage Covenant & Process – April 2005
- Process & Openness – March 2005
- Liberals vs. Evangelicals & Process – February 2005
- Salvation after Death? – January 2005
2004
- Is There a Process Eschatology? – December 2004
- Evil & Sin Revisited – November 2004
- Evangelism & Mission – October 2004
- Animal Rights (2) – September 2004
- Jesus – August 2004
- Young-Earth Creationism? – February 2004
- Survival of the Fittest? – January 2004
2003
- Where is the Past? – August 2003
- Natural Evil – July 2003
- Process & Science – June 2003
- Divine Intervention – May 2003
- Divine Lures – April 2003
- Overpopulation – March 2003
- Immanent or Transcendent? – January 2003
2002
- Divine Activity – December 2002
- Religious Experience – November 2002
- Intrinsic Value – October 2002
- God & Possibility – September 2002
- Progressive Christianity – August 2002
- Is God Incomplete? – July 2002
- Process & Scripture – June 2002
- Process Spirituality – March 2002
- Divine Omnipotence – February 2002
- Just War Theory – January 2002
2001
- Patriotism – December 2001
- Original Sin – October 2001
- Salvation – September 2001
- God & Pop Culture – August 2001
- God & Change Pt. 2 – July 2001
- Power of Love – June 2001
- God & Power – May 2011
- Perfect Love – March 2001
- Openness Theology – February 2001
- Incarnation – January 2001
2000
- Animal Rights (1) – October 2000
- God & Anger – September 2000
- Cutting Edge – August 2000
- Process Ethics – June 2000
- God & Love – May 2000
- Prayer – April 2000
- Who Cares? – March 2000
- Psi Phenomena – February 2000
- God & Violence – January 2000
1999
- Death of God – December 1999
- Life after Death – October 1999
- God & Change Pt. 1 – September 1999
- Creation from Nothing? – July 1999
- Homosexuality – June 1999
- Future of the church – May 1999
- Human Value – April 1999
- Biblical Interpretation – March 1999
- Divine Inspiration – January 1999