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SUMMARY:Buddhist Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nAt face value\, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways\, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent\, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition\, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential. \nWhitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme\, replete with foundational metaphysical categories\, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience\, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead\, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature\, language\, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential\, process-relational Philosophy of Organism. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/buddhist-process-explorations/2025-12-17/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Christian Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology \n\n\n\nThis learning circle focuses on the exploring\, sharing\, and practice of Christian process-relational theology\, as relevant to all age groups: children\, teenagers\, adults\, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches\, religious education\, hospitals\, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas\, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-process-explorations/2025-12-22/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Reading on Faiths: Mysticism
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is Mysticism by Simon Critchley. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. Critchley introduces the reader to mystics beginning with Dionysius (circa 500) through modern mystics like T.S. Eliot and Annie Dillard\, while discussing Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckart along the way. He provides his definition and that of others of mysticism and discusses a variety of examples.   \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/reading-on-faiths-mysticism/2026-01-05/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Reading on Faiths: Mysticism
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is Mysticism by Simon Critchley. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. Critchley introduces the reader to mystics beginning with Dionysius (circa 500) through modern mystics like T.S. Eliot and Annie Dillard\, while discussing Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckart along the way. He provides his definition and that of others of mysticism and discusses a variety of examples.   \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/reading-on-faiths-mysticism/2026-01-12/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Reading on Faiths: Mysticism
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is Mysticism by Simon Critchley. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. Critchley introduces the reader to mystics beginning with Dionysius (circa 500) through modern mystics like T.S. Eliot and Annie Dillard\, while discussing Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckart along the way. He provides his definition and that of others of mysticism and discusses a variety of examples.   \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/reading-on-faiths-mysticism/2026-01-19/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T090000
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SUMMARY:Christian Leadership & Process Thought
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About Christian Leadership & Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nChristian leadership is at work in worship\, outreach\, religious education\, pastoral care\, self care\, and administration. This learning circle seeks to explore process theology and offer a process perspective on the real challenges related to church leadership. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-leadership-process-thought/2026-01-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nAt face value\, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways\, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent\, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition\, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential. \nWhitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme\, replete with foundational metaphysical categories\, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience\, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead\, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature\, language\, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential\, process-relational Philosophy of Organism. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/buddhist-process-explorations/2026-01-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Reading on Faiths: Mysticism
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is Mysticism by Simon Critchley. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. Critchley introduces the reader to mystics beginning with Dionysius (circa 500) through modern mystics like T.S. Eliot and Annie Dillard\, while discussing Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckart along the way. He provides his definition and that of others of mysticism and discusses a variety of examples.   \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/reading-on-faiths-mysticism/2026-01-26/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T170000
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SUMMARY:Christian Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology \n\n\n\nThis learning circle focuses on the exploring\, sharing\, and practice of Christian process-relational theology\, as relevant to all age groups: children\, teenagers\, adults\, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches\, religious education\, hospitals\, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas\, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-process-explorations/2026-01-26/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Evolution in Divine Love
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n  \nWhat if love is not just a feeling—but the very force that drives all of existence?\n  \nIn his newest book\, Evolution in Divine Love: The Eternal Becoming of God\, Soul\, and Matter\, Gaudiya Vaishnava monk and spiritual teacher Swami Padmanabha offers a visionary and poetic exploration of love as the dynamic power at the heart of the Divine\, soul\, and matter. Drawing from Hindu Devotional Vedanta\, psychology\, modern science\, and mystical insights from multiple traditions\, he reimagines the spiritual journey as a process of ever-deepening relationship—with the Divine\, with the world\, and with our evolving selves. \nFar from portraying divinity as distant or static\, Swami Padmanabha encourages us to see Ultimate Reality as both changeless and ever-new\, infinite and intimate\, perfect and perpetually becoming—animated by the same love that pulses through every corner of creation. Through this lens\, he invites us to view reality not as a closed system\, but as a living\, breathing process of growth\, beauty\, and co-creative transformation. \n  \n\n\nIn this Process Pop-Up\, Swami Padmanabha will discuss the ideas in Evolution in Divine Love. Whether you’re a spiritual seeker\, interfaith explorer\, psychologist\, theologian\, or simply someone yearning to live from a deeper source\, he offers a radical invitation: to see the cosmos—and yourself—as an ever-unfolding love story. \n\n“In love\, we never have the final say\, for love is an open word—a letter that is continuously being written\, forever in motion. True love\, within its sacred dance\, never comes to a halt. The moment love ceases to move\, it ceases to be love.” \nSwami Padmanabha\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n  \nSwami Padmanabha\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt an early age\, Swami Padmanabha delved deeply into the theology of diverse mystical traditions. After taking up Gaudiya Vaishnavism in 1999 at the age of 19\, he has dedicated himself to an extensive study of the Gaudiya scriptures under the guidance of his various mentors. Fluent in English and Spanish\, Swami has written hundreds of articles in both languages\, with his first two books published in English and in the process of being translated to other languages. For the past twenty years\, he has traveled around the world and lectured in universities\, ashrams\, and yoga studios. All of his numerous talks and seminars are available online for free at swamipadmanabha.com. As a leader of spiritual retreats and communities\, he inspires both practitioners and visitors with his penetrating teachings and personal example. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\nDisclaimer: This event is open to the public and will be recorded. If you choose to enable your camera or participate in any discussions\, your voice and likeness will be recorded\, and may be posted on the Process & Faith and/or Center for Process Studies websites and social media\, or included in our public-facing materials. If you do not want your voice or likeness to be shared in such materials\, please send an email to optout@ctr4process.org \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-evolution-in-divine-love/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T090000
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SUMMARY:Christian Leadership & Process Thought
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About Christian Leadership & Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nChristian leadership is at work in worship\, outreach\, religious education\, pastoral care\, self care\, and administration. This learning circle seeks to explore process theology and offer a process perspective on the real challenges related to church leadership. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-leadership-process-thought/2026-02-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T170000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nAt face value\, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways\, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent\, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition\, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential. \nWhitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme\, replete with foundational metaphysical categories\, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience\, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead\, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature\, language\, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential\, process-relational Philosophy of Organism. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/buddhist-process-explorations/2026-02-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Interweavings: Deep Listening: Dynamic Practices and Living Texts
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n  \nWe may be Muslim\, Christian\, Jew\, skeptic\, or non-believer\, but we are each united in our humanity and the stories of the Bible bond us through that essential humanity…our very lives inform the way we enter the biblical text\, and the biblical text ‘speaks’ to us through the context of our lives.\n  \nHow might ancient texts speak to us afresh today? Can pre–modern practices be revitalized and re-imagined to address modern concerns? \nRabbi Leila Gal Berner and Sheri D. Kling strongly believe that there is still something life-giving in both ancient texts and pre-modern practices\, and that both can come alive in dynamic ways while still being grounded in timeless wisdom. \nOnce Rabbi Berner was introduced to the Christian contemplative practice of lectio divina—a Latin phrase meaning “sacred reading”—she immediately fell in love with its ability to drop her into a living experience of biblical text. She wanted other Jews to have that same experience\, and created a uniquely Jewish expression of lectio divina that she has named Kriat Hakodesh (Reading the Holy) reflected in her book\, Listening to the Heart of Genesis: A Contemplative Path.  \nSheri Kling has had similar experiences with Christian contemplative practices\, and has refashioned three of them—lectio divina\, praying with icons\, and praying with the imagination—into a transreligious practice she calls Dream Divina. While the target of contemplation in her practice is one’s individual dream and its images\, the underlying spiritual “technologies” of the Christian practices still carry the same power to reveal the presence of the Sacred. \nIn this event\, Rabbi Berner and Dr. Kling will share their own experiences with reshaping traditional practices to reawaken modern sensibilities to potentially transforming encounters with texts and with the Divine. \n  \nAbout the Speakers\n  \nRabbi Leila Gal Berner\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRabbi Leila Gal Berner was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and holds a second ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (of blessed memory). She received her doctorate in medieval Jewish history from UCLA. She is Chair of the Bible Department of the ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Ordination Program where she teaches biblical and medieval history\, feminist thought\, and midrash. Dr. Berner has taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University and George Washington and Emory universities\, and Swarthmore and Reed colleges. She is the author of Listening to the Heart of Genesis: A Contemplative Path. https://www.rabbileila.com/ \n\n\nSheri D. Kling\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, Ph.D.\, is the director of Process & Faith with the Center for Process Studies and interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton\, FL.  Sheri earned her Ph.D. in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology. She is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual teacher\, as well as a faculty member of the Haden Institute\, adjunct faculty with Claremont School of Theology\, and the author of A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation. She regularly delivers dynamic “Music & Message” presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. She may be found online at sherikling.com \n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\nDisclaimer: This event is open to the public and will be recorded. If you choose to enable your camera or participate in any discussions\, your voice and likeness will be recorded\, and may be posted on the Process & Faith and/or Center for Process Studies websites and social media\, or included in our public-facing materials. If you do not want your voice or likeness to be shared in such materials\, please send an email to optout@ctr4process.org \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/interweavings-deep-listening-dynamic-practices-and-living-texts/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Interweavings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260223T180000
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SUMMARY:Christian Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology \n\n\n\nThis learning circle focuses on the exploring\, sharing\, and practice of Christian process-relational theology\, as relevant to all age groups: children\, teenagers\, adults\, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches\, religious education\, hospitals\, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas\, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-process-explorations/2026-02-23/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T080000
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SUMMARY:Readings on Faiths: What the Buddha Taught
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. This short excursion into the teachings of the Buddha covers “The Four Noble Truths” and “The Eightfold Path\,” as you would think it would. However\, it also has a chapter dedicated to “The Buddhist Attitude of Mind” and my favorite “The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta.” The book also has a section of Buddhist sacred texts. \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/readings-on-faiths-what-the-buddha-taught/2026-03-09/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T163000
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SUMMARY:Nurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A 4-Session Reading and Practice Formation Series \n\n\n \n\n\nNurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy is a four-session\, guided formation series exploring how spiritual grounding\, relational courage\, and embodied practices can help us meet political anxiety without losing our humanity—or one another. \nIn times of political upheaval\, many of us feel pulled between fear\, fatigue\, anger\, and a longing for something wiser and more humane than what dominates our public life. This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect\, listen\, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently. \n\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/nurturing-the-relational-heart-of-democracy/2026-03-09/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T093000
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SUMMARY:Readings on Faiths: What the Buddha Taught
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. This short excursion into the teachings of the Buddha covers “The Four Noble Truths” and “The Eightfold Path\,” as you would think it would. However\, it also has a chapter dedicated to “The Buddhist Attitude of Mind” and my favorite “The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta.” The book also has a section of Buddhist sacred texts. \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/readings-on-faiths-what-the-buddha-taught/2026-03-16/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20260220T000318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T001651Z
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SUMMARY:Nurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A 4-Session Reading and Practice Formation Series \n\n\n \n\n\nNurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy is a four-session\, guided formation series exploring how spiritual grounding\, relational courage\, and embodied practices can help us meet political anxiety without losing our humanity—or one another. \nIn times of political upheaval\, many of us feel pulled between fear\, fatigue\, anger\, and a longing for something wiser and more humane than what dominates our public life. This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect\, listen\, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently. \n\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/nurturing-the-relational-heart-of-democracy/2026-03-16/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260318T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260318T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
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SUMMARY:Christian Leadership & Process Thought
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About Christian Leadership & Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nChristian leadership is at work in worship\, outreach\, religious education\, pastoral care\, self care\, and administration. This learning circle seeks to explore process theology and offer a process perspective on the real challenges related to church leadership. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-leadership-process-thought/2026-03-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260318T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260318T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T073001Z
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nAt face value\, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways\, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent\, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition\, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential. \nWhitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme\, replete with foundational metaphysical categories\, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience\, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead\, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature\, language\, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential\, process-relational Philosophy of Organism. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/buddhist-process-explorations/2026-03-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T093000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20260212T004738Z
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SUMMARY:Readings on Faiths: What the Buddha Taught
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion \n\n\n\nReadings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course\, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions. \nOur next book for my learning circle is What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. The book is full of pictures\, paintings and more\, depicting mysticism in its varied aspects. This short excursion into the teachings of the Buddha covers “The Four Noble Truths” and “The Eightfold Path\,” as you would think it would. However\, it also has a chapter dedicated to “The Buddhist Attitude of Mind” and my favorite “The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta.” The book also has a section of Buddhist sacred texts. \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/readings-on-faiths-what-the-buddha-taught/2026-03-23/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20260220T000318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T001651Z
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SUMMARY:Nurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A 4-Session Reading and Practice Formation Series \n\n\n \n\n\nNurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy is a four-session\, guided formation series exploring how spiritual grounding\, relational courage\, and embodied practices can help us meet political anxiety without losing our humanity—or one another. \nIn times of political upheaval\, many of us feel pulled between fear\, fatigue\, anger\, and a longing for something wiser and more humane than what dominates our public life. This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect\, listen\, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently. \n\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/nurturing-the-relational-heart-of-democracy/2026-03-23/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
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SUMMARY:Christian Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology \n\n\n\nThis learning circle focuses on the exploring\, sharing\, and practice of Christian process-relational theology\, as relevant to all age groups: children\, teenagers\, adults\, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches\, religious education\, hospitals\, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas\, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-process-explorations/2026-03-23/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20260220T000318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T001651Z
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SUMMARY:Nurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A 4-Session Reading and Practice Formation Series \n\n\n \n\n\nNurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy is a four-session\, guided formation series exploring how spiritual grounding\, relational courage\, and embodied practices can help us meet political anxiety without losing our humanity—or one another. \nIn times of political upheaval\, many of us feel pulled between fear\, fatigue\, anger\, and a longing for something wiser and more humane than what dominates our public life. This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect\, listen\, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently. \n\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/nurturing-the-relational-heart-of-democracy/2026-03-30/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T001651Z
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SUMMARY:Nurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A 4-Session Reading and Practice Formation Series \n\n\n \n\n\nNurturing the Relational Heart of Democracy is a four-session\, guided formation series exploring how spiritual grounding\, relational courage\, and embodied practices can help us meet political anxiety without losing our humanity—or one another. \nIn times of political upheaval\, many of us feel pulled between fear\, fatigue\, anger\, and a longing for something wiser and more humane than what dominates our public life. This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect\, listen\, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently. \n\n\n \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/nurturing-the-relational-heart-of-democracy/2026-04-06/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20250204T052128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250617T200217Z
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SUMMARY:Christian Leadership & Process Thought
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About Christian Leadership & Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nChristian leadership is at work in worship\, outreach\, religious education\, pastoral care\, self care\, and administration. This learning circle seeks to explore process theology and offer a process perspective on the real challenges related to church leadership. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-leadership-process-thought/2026-04-15/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T180000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought \n\n\n\nAt face value\, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways\, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent\, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition\, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential. \nWhitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme\, replete with foundational metaphysical categories\, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience\, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead\, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature\, language\, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential\, process-relational Philosophy of Organism. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/buddhist-process-explorations/2026-04-15/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Becoming Together: Immersing a Congregation in Process Theology
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\nIntroducing process theology into a congregational setting can be both enriching and disorienting. Its language and assumptions often differ so significantly from traditional frameworks that people may feel as though the ground beneath their faith is shifting rather than expanding. Concepts like a non-coercive God or a dynamically changing divine reality can challenge deeply held beliefs about power\, prayer\, and certainty. The task\, then\, is not simply to teach new ideas but to translate them pastorally\, creating space where curiosity can grow without triggering fear or defensiveness. \nPastor Brian’s approach is to introduce the core themes of process theology over the course of a month\, with different types of learning. Rather than presenting it as a dense theological system\, the month offers four distinct but connected experiences that engage both heart and mind. The journey begins with a participatory Bible study centered on God in relationship\, using the vine and branches imagery from John 15 to explore divine nearness and mutual indwelling. The next session is a story-weaving circle where participants share experiences of change\, loss\, and renewal\, discovering together how transformation unfolds within community. \nOver the rest of the month\, these themes are embodied in worship and action. A sermon and teaching moment within the worship explore how persuasive love is the nature of divine power\, reframing God’s work as relational and life-giving rather than coercive. The month concludes with a collaborative arts workshop that invites the wider community into a shared act of creation. Through contributing to a single piece of art\, participants experience co-creation as a spiritual practice\, reinforcing the idea that transformation happens through relationship and continues beyond the gathered space. \n“What if God’s silence isn’t absence but a different kind of presence? For those who still cry ‘How long\, O Lord?’ and wonder whether prayer changes anything\, process theology offers a bold reimagining: a God not of control\, but of relationship. A God who does not override the world’s pain\, but meets it\, feels it\, and works within it through persuasion\, invitation\, and shared becoming.” \nPastor Brian Cromer \n \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nRev. Brian Cromer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Brian Cromer is the pastor of New Day Fellowship\, a small\, predominantly LGBTQ congregation in Upstate South Carolina. With a passion for creating spaces of belonging\, Brian leads a community that prioritizes relationship\, authenticity\, and spiritual exploration over rigid belief. Drawing on his theological training and pastoral experience\, he helps individuals reimagine faith in ways that are life-giving and inclusive. At New Day Fellowship\, worship\, study\, and service are woven together to reflect a dynamic and evolving understanding of God. Brian’s work focuses on making complex theological ideas\, like process theology\, accessible and meaningful within everyday congregational life. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\nDisclaimer: This event is open to the public and will be recorded. If you choose to enable your camera or participate in any discussions\, your voice and likeness will be recorded\, and may be posted on the Process & Faith and/or Center for Process Studies websites and social media\, or included in our public-facing materials. If you do not want your voice or likeness to be shared in such materials\, please send an email to optout@ctr4process.org \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-becoming-together-immersing-a-congregation-in-process-theology/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260427T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260427T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20241004T205457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T073301Z
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SUMMARY:Christian Process Explorations
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group About the Exploring\, Sharing\, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology \n\n\n\nThis learning circle focuses on the exploring\, sharing\, and practice of Christian process-relational theology\, as relevant to all age groups: children\, teenagers\, adults\, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches\, religious education\, hospitals\, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas\, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group. \n  \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/christian-process-explorations/2026-04-27/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260506T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T091154
CREATED:20260327T071841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T072412Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: A Systematic Theology of Love
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\nWhat might theology look like if “God is love” were to be its central theme? And what if divine love were understood from an open and relational perspective\, taking into account our experiences and intuitions of love? \nThomas Jay Oord attempts to answer these questions in his new book\, A Systematic Theology of Love. Compared with Evangelical systematic theology as written by people like Wayne Grudem or liberal systematic theologies as written by Paul Tillich\, Oord’s offering is drastically different.  \nOord lays out various distinctive ideas that emerge when love is understood from an open and relational perspective. Some of those ideas oppose traditional views of God’s relation to time\, creation\, and power. This Process Pop-Up provides an overview to the big ideas that make A Systematic Theology of Love so winsome to so many! \n  \n\n\n\n“My Systematic Theology of Love operates from a particular version of open and relational theology that prioritizes love\, replaces omnipotence with amipotence\, opposes divine timelessness and embraces a living deity\, says God is relational rather than unaffected\, rejects creatio ex nihilo but claims God is the ever creator\, promotes pluriform love\, and much more.” \nThomas Jay Oord\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n  \nThomas Jay Oord\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord\, PhD\, is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology and doctoral students at Northwind Theological Seminary. He is an award-winning author and has written or edited more than fifty books. A gifted speaker\, Oord lectures at universities\, conferences\, churches\, and institutions. He is known for his contributions to research on love\, science and religion\, open and relational theology\, the problem of suffering\, and advocacy for the full inclusion of queer people. Website: thomasjayoord.com \n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\nDisclaimer: This event is open to the public and will be recorded. If you choose to enable your camera or participate in any discussions\, your voice and likeness will be recorded\, and may be posted on the Process & Faith and/or Center for Process Studies websites and social media\, or included in our public-facing materials. If you do not want your voice or likeness to be shared in such materials\, please send an email to optout@ctr4process.org \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-a-systematic-theology-of-love/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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