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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 
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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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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/
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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/
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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 
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