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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/2025-11-24/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Reading on Faiths: When Christians Were Jews
DESCRIPTION:A Book Group Exploring the Diversity of Religion\n\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 When Christians Were Jews\, The First Generation by Paula Fredriksen. Fredriksen\, a long time professor of scripture at Boston University\, presents a deep yet accessible study of the first generation of “Christians.” She demonstrates how a group of charismatic\, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries\, preparing their world for the realization of God’s promises for Israel\, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church. \n\nLEARN MORE & ENROLL
URL:https://processandfaith.org/event/reading-on-faiths-when-christians-were-jews/2025-11-24/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
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/2025-11-19/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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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/2025-11-19/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Eco-Psychology\, Plant Medicine\, and the Sacred Earth
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n  \nIn this exploratory webinar\, author\, educator and aspiring therapist Travis Cox will invite participants into the project that he and his colleagues are calling “Ecopsychedelics” which is a portmanteau of the words “ecopsychology” and “psychedelics”.  Travis will first introduce the discipline of ecopsychology and then give some background into the particulars of the “ecopsychedelic” project\, including some insights he gained from teaching the first ever class on Ecopsychedelics last spring. \nDuring the webinar\, Travis will invite a dialogue into what he feels is one of the most important aspects of the psychedelic experience in general\, which is certainly central to his personal conception of ecopsychedelics: the implicit or explicit invocation of worldviews.  For Travis\, this invocation is two-fold: first is the fact that\, for many if not most people\, the scientific materialist paradigm can come into question during a psychedelic experience; second is the open-question as to whether or not the “psychedelic experience” itself has a worldview. \nThis collaborative inquiry will eventually lead to a discussion of process thought\, especially as it relates to a more “modern” understanding of animism.  This workshop is for those who are interested in the intersections of ecopsychology\, plant medicines\, and ecospirituality.  \n  \n\n“I feel that our materialist-technological society\, with its fragmented world-view\, has largely lost its way\, and can ill afford to ignore any potential aids to great knowledge of the human mind … The individual seeks a vision to understand his or her place\, or destiny\, as a member of the community.  The knowledge derived from expanded states of consciousness has been\, can be\, and needs to be applied to the solution of the staggering problems that confront our species.“ \nRalph Metzner\, psychologist and psychedelic researcher with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the 1960s \n\n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nTravis Cox\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTravis Cox\, PhD is Associate Professor in the Masters in Ecopsychology and Bachelors of Environmental Studies at Naropa University.  He has been studying consciousness throughout his career in academia\, both as a student and as faculty.  His interests in psychedelics are at the intersection of activism\, philosophy\, sustainability\, and ecopsychology.  He presented on psychedelics and sustainability at the 2019 AASHE conference\, helped organize the “Can Exceptional Experience Save the World?” conference at the Claremont School of Theology in 2019\, was a part of the “Philosophy and Psychedelics” conference at the University of Exeter in April of 2021\, co-taught the Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) course at Naropa\, led nature connection sessions for Naropa’s PAT Certificate\, co-facilitated a workshop on “Ecopsychedelics” at the 2023 MAPS conference in Denver\, taught a 3-credit course in “Ecopsychedelics” in spring 2025 and worked with a faculty committee in the summer of 2025 to propose a new BA major in Psychedelic Studies at Naropa. \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-eco-psychology-plant-medicine-and-the-sacred-earth/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: A Brief History of God: From Nature Spirits to Cosmic Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n  \nJoin us for an enlightening evening with author Nish Dubashia and special co-presenter Marie Murtagh as they offer powerful insights from A Brief History of God: From Nature Spirits to Cosmic Consciousness. This thought-provoking event will trace the sweeping evolution of human spirituality—from ancient tribal reverence for nature spirits to an emerging vision of unified cosmic consciousness. \nDrawing from history\, philosophy\, psychology\, science\, and lived experience\, Nish and Marie will explore how our collective understanding of God and self has transformed through cultural shifts\, scientific discoveries\, and the timeless human search for meaning. Their co-presentation weaves together scholarly depth with lived insight\, inviting a deeper engagement with spirituality not as doctrine\, but as an evolving and integrative human experience. \nIn this unique presentation\, Marie will offer complementary reflections and practical grounding to Nish’s philosophical framework—adding nuance\, resonance\, and a relational dimension to the inquiry. Together\, they create space for personal reflection and collective exploration of what it means to live spiritually in a rapidly changing world. \nWhether you’re a seeker\, skeptic\, or simply curious about the deep undercurrents of belief that have shaped humanity\, this event is a rare opportunity to engage with a rich and inclusive perspective on spiritual evolution. \nThe talk will be followed by a live Q&A session\, encouraging thoughtful dialogue\, shared reflections\, and authentic inquiry. \n  \n\n\n\n“Spirituality is not a relic from the past; it is as vibrant and necessary as the world we live in. It is rooted in the universal longing for meaning in the face of suffering\, connection in times of isolation\, and transcendence over our finite human experience. Just as our scientific understanding of the world has evolved from superstition to discovery\, our relationship with the divine has undergone a parallel metamorphosis. \nIn the end\, the eternal dance of self and Spirit is a reminder that spirituality is not about finding all the answers but about embracing the questions—not about arriving at a final destination but about the journey itself. It invites us to see life as a sacred unfolding\, a dance where each step\, each movement\, brings us closer to the heart of existence. As we step into the future\, let us do so with gratitude for the wisdom of the past\, faith in the promise of the future\, and reverence for the eternal mystery that calls us to dance.“ \nNish Dubashia\, A Brief History of God \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n  \nNish Dubashia\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNish Dubashia is a British author and Integral thinker\, known for creating the Diamond Model—a framework that synthesizes Bohmian physics\, Integral Theory\, and Eastern philosophy. Having previously studied with some of the world’s leading mathematicians at the University of Warwick\, Nish has been invited to present internationally at the Science and Consciousness Conference\, World Unity Week\, Integral European Conference\, and MIT’s Global Forum. His books include Gifted\, Dancing with Angels\, The Unity of Everything\, and A Brief History of God\, some of which have appeared on Amazon bestseller lists. Nish is also a faculty member at The Collective Edge and co-founder of Evolving Nexus\, both of which support personal and collective transformation. \n\n\nMarie Murtagh\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarie Murtagh is a spiritual facilitator\, coach\, and co-creator at Evolving Nexus. With a deep background in consciousness facilitation\, Integral transformation\, and complexity science\, Marie brings a grounded\, heart-centered approach to spiritual inquiry and transformation. Her work supports individuals and communities in navigating the liminal space between old paradigms and emerging possibilities\, weaving personal healing with collective awakening. As a long-time collaborator of Nish Dubashia\, she brings insight\, warmth\, and embodied presence to their shared exploration of spiritual evolution. \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/a-brief-history-of-god-from-nature-spirits-to-cosmic-consciousness/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Process Pop-up
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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/2025-10-27/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T170000
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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/2025-10-15/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T090000
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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/2025-10-15/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T163000
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SUMMARY:Special Event | Renewing Faith: Reigniting Faith and Ministry through Process and Open & Relational Theologies
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Now\n  \nAre you feeling burned out\, bored\, or disillusioned with your faith or ministry? Do you long for a revitalized spirituality that speaks to both your heart and your head?\n  \nJoin us for this special event to hear from contributing authors to the new book from Process & Faith\, Renewing Faith: Reigniting Faith and Ministry through Process and Open & Relational Theologies. This unique book emerged from a conference P&F hosted in January of 2025 where we explored such themes as: \n  \n\n\n\nRenewing Faith – Can faith become life-giving again?\nRenewing God – What if God is deeply relational and always present?\nRenewing Jesus – How is Jesus still saving us today?\nRenewing Message – Can ancient texts still inspire transformation?\nRenewing Worship – What remains sacred and nourishing in our rituals?\nRenewing Spirit – How do practices of the Spirit bring healing and wholeness?\nRenewing Community – What does a renewing church or ministry look like?\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRenewing Faith is a bold and hopeful invitation to reimagine Christianity through the transformative lenses of process and open & relational theologies. Drawing on the rich insights of contemporary theology\, science\, and philosophy\, this book brings together voices of pastors\, theologians\, spiritual directors\, chaplains\, and seekers who are rediscovering the vitality and purpose of a living faith. \nWhether you identify as a progressive mainliner\, contemplative soul\, post-evangelical questioner\, or spiritual-but-not-religious wanderer\, you’ll find fresh pathways to reawaken your passion and deepen your connection to the Divine. \nSheri Kling\, editor of Renewing Faith: Reigniting Faith and Ministry through Process and Open & Relational Theologies\, will facilitate the discussion. Come and learn about this collection of essays of spiritual possibility—designed to equip and inspire Christian leaders\, seekers\, and communities to become not just renewed\, but renewing forces in a world that is crying out for wholeness and hope. \nBe part of a movement that is reimagining what it means to believe\, to lead\, and to love. The world needs your renewed faith. \n  \n\nFaith is renewed when we open our hearts and minds to the living Reality we call God and allow that Mystery to show us the truth\, even if that requires us to abandon inherited dogmas as new symbols emerge. \nSheri D. Kling\, editor\, Renewing Faith \n\n  \nAbout the Facilitator\n  \nSheri D. Kling\, PhD\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, PhD\, is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual teacher who serves as director of Process & Faith with the Center for Process Studies\, interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton\, Florida\, and teaches regularly for the Haden Institute and Claremont School of Theology\, from which she earned her doctorate. She is the author of A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation\, and editor of Renewing Faith: Reigniting Faith and Ministry through Process and Open & Relational Theologies. As a public speaker\, Sheri delivers dynamic presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. She can 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: 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/special-event-renewing-faith-reigniting-faith-and-ministry-through-process-and-open-relational-theologies/
LOCATION:Live Zoom Sessions
CATEGORIES:Special EVent
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250922T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250922T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T180000
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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/2025-09-17/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250821T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250821T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20250717T024740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T024914Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250807T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250807T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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:20250728T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20241004T205457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T073301Z
UID:10000427-1753722000-1753725600@processandfaith.org
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:20250716T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20241004T204243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T073001Z
UID:10000421-1752685200-1752688800@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/2025-07-16/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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:20250630T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250630T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20250522T185339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T225805Z
UID:10000416-1751284800-1751288400@processandfaith.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250623T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
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:20250618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20241004T204243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T073001Z
UID:10000135-1750266000-1750269600@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/2025-06-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circles
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250618T100000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20250204T052128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250617T200217Z
UID:10000288-1750237200-1750240800@processandfaith.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095242
CREATED:20250522T171417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T190543Z
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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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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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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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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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