Posts by Andrew Schwartz
Process Thought as Source for Ethics
By Dr. Arlette Poland In Judaism, community and ethical behavior go hand in hand. We are told that our community is our life and our life is best when it…
Read MoreBecoming Christ-like Heathens
by Ann Pederson “What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality of heaven passes back into the world. By reason of this…
Read MoreL’Chaim: To Life and Impermanence
by Dr. Arlette Poland There is a continuousness about existence that Whitehead recognized. One event, life, thing even memory flows into another. First there is this and then there is…
Read MoreThe Meaning of Making Meaning and Time
By Dr. Arlette Poland Humans make meaning. That is what we do. We decide if we like a color, a person, an object, a country – or not. We make…
Read MoreRelation Is: Ethics Must Follow as Care and Connection
By Arlette Poland Whitehead taught us that everything that ever was is somehow part of everything that is becoming and then that event that becomes will be part of the…
Read MoreCompeting Aims
by Carolyn Roncolato I am racked with worry that my one year old is sick yet again, for what feels like the one-millionth time (but I think is actually the…
Read MoreDistance
by Charles Bowie I’m always anxious when I fly from one locale to another. My mind always seems to turn to the “bad” that could happen, yet, I always remind…
Read MoreChaosmic Process Theology: Deleuze and Whitehead
by Austin Roberts In recent years, I have become interested in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. What initially attracted me to his work was discovering that Deleuze considered Whitehead to…
Read MorePower, Authoritarians, and Trump
By Sheri D. Kling “Super Tuesday” has come and gone, and “appalled” is one of the words that comes immediately to mind now that Donald Trump is the leading GOP…
Read MoreOthered Bodies, Social Contract Theory, and the Expansion of Justice
by Brianne Donaldson This essay is one of a 6-part series titled “What is Justice?”:First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth In the previous reflection, I examined several types of divine justice (i.e. transcendent or natural…
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