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SUMMARY:Exploring Ideas in the World's Religions
DESCRIPTION:Engaging and Interpreting Key Ideas in the World’s Great Religious Traditions \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week course\, students will engage key ideas from the world’s religious traditions and interpret them through the lens of Huston Smith’s works and process philosophy using individual thought\, curiosity\, creativity\, and spiritual growth. \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/exploring-ideas-in-the-worlds-religions/2025-03-26/
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SUMMARY:Exploring Ideas in the World's Religions
DESCRIPTION:Engaging and Interpreting Key Ideas in the World’s Great Religious Traditions \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week course\, students will engage key ideas from the world’s religious traditions and interpret them through the lens of Huston Smith’s works and process philosophy using individual thought\, curiosity\, creativity\, and spiritual growth. \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/exploring-ideas-in-the-worlds-religions/2025-04-02/
CATEGORIES:Courses
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SUMMARY:Exploring Ideas in the World's Religions
DESCRIPTION:Engaging and Interpreting Key Ideas in the World’s Great Religious Traditions \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week course\, students will engage key ideas from the world’s religious traditions and interpret them through the lens of Huston Smith’s works and process philosophy using individual thought\, curiosity\, creativity\, and spiritual growth. \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/exploring-ideas-in-the-worlds-religions/2025-04-09/
CATEGORIES:Courses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T170000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: A Tale of Two Narratives: Judeo-Christian Perspectives on Creation and Salvation
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\nThe Christian grand narrative familiar to most people in Western Christianity is a story of Fall and Redemption. Organized around Augustine’s 4th century doctrine of “original sin\,” the Fall/Redemption grand narrative begins with the concept that humankind and all of creation exist in a pervasive state of corruption from which only God in Christ can deliver them.  \nThere is\, however\, an earlier Christian grand narrative that emerged from ancient Jewish and Christian traditions prior to the 4th century. This grand narrative tells the story of Creation/Restoration. It focuses on the concept of divine guidance and creaturely response in creating life that enacts God’s vision to restore shalom/peace among all aspects of creation. \nTherefore\, Western Christianity features two grand narratives. One highlights sin and the need for redemption. The other highlights God’s earthly aim for the restoration of shalom. The narrative Christians choose to live by determines how they approach life theologically\, spiritually\, and faithfully in the moment-by-moment interactions of each and every day.  \nAfter giving a brief introduction to each of the narratives\, Dr. Gayle Hansen Browne will address the following topics: \n\nThe Roots and Evolution of the Creation/Restoration Narrative\nThe Roots and Evolution of the Fall/Redemption Narrative\nA Comparison of Perspectives On Major Christian Themes\n\nCreation\nSin\nJudgment\nSalvation\n\n\nWhy the Story Christians Tell Makes a Difference\n\n  \nQuote\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is a difference between the ancient Jewish spiritual tradition\, from which early Christianity emerged\, and the Greco-Roman spiritual tradition\, which has dominated Western spirituality since the fourth century. The ancient Jewish/early Christian spirituality emerges from a grand narrative of creation and restoration. The Greco-Roman spirituality emerges from a grand narrative of fall and redemption.” \nGayle Hansen Browne\, Wild Geese Rising: Living Prayer as Moment-by-Moment Contemplative Action \n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nGayle Hansen Browne\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rev. Gayle Hansen Browne\, ThD\, is a teacher\, spiritual director\, retreat leader\, open and relational theologian\, writer\, Episcopal priest\, and mindfulness guide. She is the author of Wild Geese Rising: Living Prayer as Moment-by-Moment Contemplative Action. Her published essays include “Praying and Singing in the Language of Love” (in Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God) and “Amipotence in Action” (in Amipotence\, Vol. 2). Dr. Browne also writes a monthly reflection called Beholding and Befriending Life\, which offers a brief meditation and prompt for mindful living at https://gaylehansenbrowne108.substack.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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-a-tale-of-two-narratives-judeo-christian-perspectives-on-creation-and-salvation/
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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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/2025-04-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Exploring Ideas in the World's Religions
DESCRIPTION:Engaging and Interpreting Key Ideas in the World’s Great Religious Traditions \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week course\, students will engage key ideas from the world’s religious traditions and interpret them through the lens of Huston Smith’s works and process philosophy using individual thought\, curiosity\, creativity\, and spiritual growth. \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/exploring-ideas-in-the-worlds-religions/2025-04-16/
CATEGORIES:Courses
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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/2025-04-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T160000
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SUMMARY:Exploring Ideas in the World's Religions
DESCRIPTION:Engaging and Interpreting Key Ideas in the World’s Great Religious Traditions \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week course\, students will engage key ideas from the world’s religious traditions and interpret them through the lens of Huston Smith’s works and process philosophy using individual thought\, curiosity\, creativity\, and spiritual growth. \nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/exploring-ideas-in-the-worlds-religions/2025-04-23/
CATEGORIES:Courses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T180000
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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/2025-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T170000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: The God of the Growing Edge: Whitehead and Thurman on Theology\, Spirituality\, and Social Change
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n In this Pop-Up\, Bruce Epperly will draw from his book The God of the Growing Edge: Whitehead and Thurman on Theology\, Spirituality\, and Social Change to explore the intersecting spiritual visions of two towering figures: Alfred North Whitehead\, the eminent philosopher and process theologian\, and Howard Thurman\, the influential African American mystic\, theologian\, and civil rights leader. Investigating these thinkers’ complementary strengths offers a timely resource for contemplative activists seeking a deeper integration of spirituality and social transformation in our turbulent times. \nWhitehead’s metaphysics provides a robust intellectual framework for understanding a universe of interconnectedness\, change\, and possibility\, while Thurman’s lived experience of oppression and spiritual resistance infuses this framework with prophetic urgency and practical wisdom. Together\, they offer a powerful and timely message for today’s world. Exploring this “growing edge” of faith offers a compelling path toward a more just\, compassionate\, and sustainable future. \nThis Pop-Up will also serve as a jumping off point for Bruce’s upcoming course with Process & Faith\, Exploring Global Mysticism through a Process Lens\, beginning May 6. \n  \nQuotes\n  \n\n“Always there seems to be something more to be experienced\, to be felt\, to know. My mind rejects any conclusion as being final. The greatest source of hope\, therefore\, for both the present and the future\, is the awareness of the potential in me\, in other people\, in life itself.” \nHoward Thurman\, in an introduction to A Track to the Water’s Edge: An Olive Schreiner Reader \n\n\n“The vigour of civilized societies is preserved by the wide-spread sense that high aims are worthwhile. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives so that [people] wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications… the perfection of life resides in aims beyond the individual person in question.” \nAlfred North Whitehead\, Adventures of Ideas \n\n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nBruce Epperly\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce Epperly\, PhD has spent over forty years in the varied vocations of seminary and university professor\, university chaplain\, congregational pastor\, and seminary administrator. He is the author of over sixty books in theology\, spirituality\, health and healing\, scripture\, politics\, and ministerial excellence and wellbeing\, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theologies and Religious Pluralism; Process Theology: Embracing Adventure with God; Mystics in Action: Twelve Saints for Today; Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman’s Vision of Contemplative Activism; and Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism. Follow his work at Patheos: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/livingaholyadventure/\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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-god-of-the-growing-edge-whitehead-and-thurman-on-theology-spirituality-and-social-change/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T090000
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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/2025-05-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T180000
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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/2025-05-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250526T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064923
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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/2025-05-26/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064923
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: The Hidden Sacred
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n \nAny decent mother comforts her distressed son by hugging him and speaking words the boy can hear clearly. Any caring father helps his injured daughter into his car and takes her to an emergency room where her injuries are treated. Yet when we are distressed or injured\, few of us receive that kind of palpable care from God\, and many sense God’s presence rarely if ever. Atheist philosopher J. L. Schellenberg uses analogies like these to construct logical proofs that a loving God cannot exist. \nProcess theology and open and relational theology have explanations for why God seems so hidden. In this process pop-up\, Tim will consider the atheist challenge and the process and open and relational answers. But these answers lead to another concern. If God has been luring reality toward quality and beauty for vast ages\, and yet there is still so much suffering in the universe\, then do we have reasons to hope that our afterlives will be wonderful rather than more of the same? Tim will offer several imaginative scenarios illustrating that our hopes for glorious afterlives might be justified. \n  \n\n“Is God silent? If so\, is it intentional? Many theologies have attempted to provide answers\, including process and open & relational theologies. In the end\, there may be no completely satisfying answer\, just an invitation to live the questions\, expand our visions of God\, and awaken to holiness in our daily lives.” \nTim Miller\, The Silence of the Lamb: Exploring the Hiddenness of God and Christ \n\n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nTim Miller\n\n\n\n\n\nA lifelong fascination with philosophy and science led Tim Miller to pursue a theology doctorate after a career in information technology. The subject of his dissertation was divine hiddenness. Slightly modified\, it has been recently published as the book The Silence of the Lamb: Exploring the Hiddenness of God and Christ. Tim loves pondering theologies\, like process theology and open and relational theology\, that push against the boundaries of long established orthodoxies.\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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-the-hidden-sacred/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T100000
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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/2025-06-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T180000
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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/2025-06-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
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/2025-06-23/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250630T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250630T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20250522T185339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T225805Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Creation out of Nothing and the Ultimacy of Love
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATE FOR THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO JUNE 30th. \n  \nRSVP Now\n  \nToward A More Expansive Process Theology\n  \nIt is sometimes assumed that advocates of open and relational theology must reject the idea that God creates the world out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo). Certainly\, many open and relational theologians\, especially those influenced by process thought\, do take this stance. Their objection lies in the association of creatio ex nihilo with a vision of divine power as unilateral—implying that God can act without any responsiveness from worldly creatures. This\, they argue\, is both metaphysically problematic and existentially harmful. Instead\, they advocate for amipotence\, the power of divine love and relationality\, rather than omnipotence. \nYet theologian Lina Langby invites us to imagine a more expansive form of open and relational theology—one that makes room for those who find meaning in the idea of creation out of nothing. What might this mean metaphysically? John Cobb\, a process theologian who rejects creatio ex nihilo\, nonetheless offers a possible direction: “Was God’s act in the Big Bang radically different from God’s act in the initiation of every subsequent event? We don’t know\, but we cannot exclude that possibility. Whitehead speaks of one divine decision untrammeled by the influence of any other decision. This decision he calls primordial\, which means nontemporal. Today it may be that we will need to associate it quite directly with a datable event. That would seem to bring us closer to the tradition.” \nIf we can imagine an open and relational—or even process—perspective that remains open to the idea of creation out of nothing\, the key question becomes: Could such a perspective interpret creation out of nothing as an act of amipotent love rather than dominating power? Might creatio ex nihilo be reimagined\, not as a display of unilateral control\, but as the first expression of a divine relationality that honors the freedom and value of all that follows? \nThese are the kinds of questions that Lina Langby and Jay McDaniel will explore in this Pop-Up conversation. \n  \n\n“I am arguing for the coherence between conceiving God as essentially loving and as necessarily and only expressing love-power\, in other words\, amipotence\, and the possibility that God created the world ex nihilo. I maintain that God coherently can be conceived as essentially loving and relational even if God created ex nihilo.” \nLina Langby \n\n  \nAbout the Speakers\n  \nLina Langby\n\n\n\n\n\nLina Langby\, PhD\, is a philosopher of religion from Uppsala University\, Sweden. Her research focuses on the connection between language and reality\, and how conceptions of God relate to worship worthiness. Her research on conceptions of God focuses on panentheism\, process theism\, pantheism\, open theism\, and classical theism. Her work includes God and the World\, “God’s kenotic Love-Power – a Defense of Relational Theology and the Vulnerability in Love\,” “The Holy Spirit and kenotic loving power\,” “The Holy Spirit is Amipotence Manifested\,” and “The role of panentheism and pantheism for environmental well-being.”\n\nJay McDaniel\n\n\n\n\n\nJay McDaniel\, PhD\, is professor emeritus of world religions at Hendrix College in Conway\, Arkansas who has written several books on process-relational thought and its application in religion\, spirituality\, and ecology. His works include Living from the Center: Spirituality in an Age of Consumerism\, What is Process Thought?: Seven Answers to Seven Questions\, and Choosing Life: Ecological Civilization as the World’s Best Hope. Jay is editor of the website Open Horizons\, serves as an advisor to Process & Faith\, and is also chair of the board of the Center for Process Studies.\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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-creation-out-of-nothing-and-the-ultimacy-of-love/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
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/2025-07-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20241004T204243Z
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/2025-07-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20241004T205457Z
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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/2025-07-28/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250807T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250807T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20250715T233731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250715T233731Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Wild Church: Communal Practices to Reconnect Spirituality and Nature
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\nIn this experiential webinar\, author\, wild church pastor\, and eco-spiritual guide Victoria Loorz invites participants into a sacred remembering: that we belong to a living\, speaking world—and that spirituality is not an escape from Earth\, but a return to it. Drawing from the relational theology of her book Church of the Wild and her leadership within the Seminary of the Wild and Wild Church Network\, Victoria will offer an introduction to communal practices that dissolve the false divide between the sacred and the natural. \nGrounded in process theology’s vision of an evolving\, inter-relational cosmos\, this hour will include stories\, teachings\, and practical invitations to rewild spirituality in relationship with place\, community\, and the Holy Presence at the heart of creation. Participants will be guided through a taste of Terra Divina\, a contemplative practice of listening to Earth as sacred text\, and reflect on how communal ritual can support a theology of mutual becoming. \nThis gathering is for anyone curious about how spiritual community can root itself in the wild\, relational processes of life\, and how spiritual leadership might emerge not just from pulpits\, but from trees\, rivers\, grief\, wonder\, and belonging. \n  \n\n\n\n“Beyond caring for creation or stewarding Earth’s ‘resources\,’ what we need is to invest in actual relationships with particular places and beings of the living world. Only a restored intimacy can provide the embodied\, rooted foundation for transformation. The global shift necessary to actually survive the crises we’ve created depends on a deep inner change. It depends on our remembering how to fall in love.“ \nVictoria Loorz\, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n  \nVictoria Loorz\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Loorz\, MDiv\, is a writer\, spiritual guide\, and wild theologian whose work emerges at the convergence of process thought\, ecological consciousness\, and sacred activism. As founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality and host of The Holy Wild podcast\, she midwives a movement of spiritual rewilding—supporting leaders and seekers who long to restore sacred intimacy with the more-than-human world. Victoria also initiated the Wild Church Network\, a growing web of communities that gather outdoors in reverence and reciprocal relationship with Earth as sacred. Her books\, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred and Field Guide to Church of the Wild\, reimagine church as a participatory\, incarnational communion with a living\, dynamic world. She lives now on the ancestral lands of the Suquamish people—among cedar trees\, tides\, and the teachings of otters—where she continues to listen for the voice of the Holy Wild.\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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-wild-church-communal-practices-to-reconnect-spirituality-and-nature/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
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/2025-08-20/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20241004T204243Z
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/2025-08-20/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250821T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250821T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20250717T024740Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Islamic Feminism and Process Theology
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\nHow might process theology contribute to gender justice in Islamic feminist theology?\n  \n\n“By challenging classical theistic notions of omnipotence\, immutability\, and dualistic thinking\, process thought provides a theological basis for critiquing interpretations of Islamic texts that have been used to justify gender hierarchy and inequality.“ \nAdis Duderija\, PhD \n\n  \nBy emphasising a dynamic\, interconnected\, and responsive God\, process theology offers a fertile framework that challenges traditional hierarchical views of divine-human relationships and gender dynamics found in mainstream Islamic theology that have strong patriarchal tendencies.  \nIn this event\, Dr. Adis Duderija will explore how integrating process thought into Islamic feminism can provide fresh perspectives on key Islamic theological concepts that can further fortify the key ideas of Islamic feminist theology. \nDr. Duderija aims to develop more gender egalitarian understandings of divine-human relationships\, gender dynamics\, and religious authority in Islamic theology\, potentially expanding the metaphysical and theological foundations of Islamic feminism and Islamic feminist theology and opening new avenues for dialogue. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nAdis Duderija\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdis Duderija\, PhD is an Associate Professor in the study of Islam and Society at Griffith University in Brisbane\, Queensland\, Australia. He has been publishing extensively for almost two decades on various aspects of the Islamic intellectual tradition\, especially progressive Islam. \nHis website: https://dradisduderija.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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-islamic-feminism-and-process-theology/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
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/2025-08-25/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20250826T080308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T052850Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Psychedelics\, Religion\, and Transformation
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n  \n\n“Institutional religion has a lot to learn from psychedelics… And the psychedelic community has a lot to learn from organized religion.“ \nHunt Priest\, quoted in “This is Your Priest on Drugs” by Michael Pollan in The New Yorker\, May 26\, 2025 \n\n  \nLigare: A Christian Psychedelic Society works at the intersection of psychedelics\, religion\, and transformation\, taking seriously the notion that reality is relational\, dynamic\, and open to novelty. Psychedelic experiences often bring a heightened sense of interconnectedness and becoming.  In this light\, psychedelics are not merely therapeutic but serve as catalysts for deeper awareness of God’s lure toward beauty and harmony. \nPsychedelic experience can offer an invitation to partner with God in the regeneration of self and community. Such experiences often dissolve rigid ego-boundaries\, opening participants to new integrations and fresh possibilities. When supported by community and theological reflection\, psychedelics attune individuals to the divine order and greater wholeness. \nLigare understands Christianity as being supple\, innovative\, and life-affirming rather than static. By weaving contemplative traditions with psychedelic insight\, Ligare help show Christian faith as an unfolding process of becoming more fully attuned to God’s aim. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nHunt Priest\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHunt Priest\, MDiv\, based in Savannah\, Georgia\, is a former Episcopal priest and the founder of Ligare: A Christian Psychedelic Society. After two decades of pastoral ministry and a pivotal experience in a Johns Hopkins psilocybin clergy study in 2016\, Priest is a leading proponent of integrating psychedelics and Christian spiritual care. In August\, he was removed from ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church due to concerns about his public advocacy regarding psychedelics. Despite the change in his ordination status\, Hunt continues to lead Ligare and encourages church leaders to find their ministry at the intersection of Christian faith and practice and psychedelic exploration. \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: By registering for and attending this event\, I grant permission to Process & Faith and the Center for Process Studies for the rights of my image\, likeness\, and sound of my voice as recorded on audio or video in this event. I waive any right to inspect or approve any resulting products wherein my likeness appears. My presence in the event (in person or online) constitutes my consent to such photography\, filming and/or recording and to any use\, in any and all media in perpetuity\, of my appearance\, voice and name for any purpose whatsoever. \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-psychedelics-religion-and-transformation/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
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/2025-09-17/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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ORGANIZER;CN="Process & Faith":MAILTO:office@processandfaith.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
CREATED:20241004T204243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T073001Z
UID:10000423-1758128400-1758132000@processandfaith.org
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/2025-09-17/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250922T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250922T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T064924
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/2025-09-22/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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