Center for Process Studies

Process Pop Ups: New Streams: Finding Faith Online

Process Pop-Up: New Streams: Finding Faith Online

This event will gather a panel of speakers who have been using new media to talk about and experience faith online. We’ll find out how this has impacted them and their listeners as we open our minds to new ways of being faithful.

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East and West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization and Education

East and West Dialogue on Ecological Civilizations and Education

This webinar is the third one in a webinar series leading up to the 2024 Earth Charter Conference: Reimagining Education for Ecological Civilizations. In this webinar, we aim to clarify the link between ecological civilizations and education. To do so, this panel will address the following questions: 1. What does the term Ecological Civilization mean? 2. How do you imagine the kind of education that fosters ecological civilizations? What are some specific examples of what is currently being done, or what could be done, towards this vision in the context of education?

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Interweavings: indigo, the color of grief

Interweavings: indigo, the color of grief

In a world that Whitehead described as one of “perpetual perishing,” grief must certainly be a universal human experience. In this event, Jonathan Foster will read excerpts from his book, indigo: the color of grief and chaplain Kathleen Reeves will respond, sharing thoughts and tools on our movement through grief.

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Process Pop Up: God Will be All in All with Anna Case-Winters

Process Pop-Up: God Will be All in All

In this event, Dr. Case-Winters will explore these themes as well as the provoking questions that arise with our affirmation that “God is with us.” How can we believe “God is with us” when there is so much suffering and evil in the world? When we make this affirmation what do we mean by “us”? Do we mean “just us Christians”?

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East and West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization Earth Charter International

East and West Dialogue on Ecological Civilizations

This webinar is the second one in a webinar series leading up to the 2024 Earth Charter Conference: Reimagining Education for Ecological Civilizations. In this webinar we will continue the conversation started in November 2023, with the panel tackling the following questions: 1. What does an Ecological Civilization look like? 2. What are some good examples paving the way towards this vision and how can we scale up these efforts? 3. What are some additional paths and driving forces to building these just, sustainable and peaceful societies? 

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Process Pop-Up: Process, Pluralism, and Respecting Diverse Religious Ultimates Header with Matthew LoPresti

Process Pop-Up: Process, Pluralism, and Respecting Diverse Religious Ultimates

In this event, LoPresti will share key ideas from his book to describe a “meta-theology” of world religions, arguing that both Western and non-Western traditions are helpful. He’ll draw from John B. Cobb’s Whiteheadian “deep religious pluralism” as well as South Asian philosophy, Western analytic philosophy, and the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

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Process Pop Up: The Not-Yet God and the Relational Whole with Ilia Delio

Process Pop-Up: The Not-Yet God and the Relational Whole

The new science, especially quantum physics, has changed our understanding of space, time and matter; hence it raises new questions on the meaning of God. In this Pop-Up, we’ll discuss llia Delio’s latest book, “The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole.”

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Webinar: East and West Dialogue on Ecological Civilization

In this webinar Earth Charter will continue the conversation, started in the 2020 webinar series on Ecological Civilization, with the following questions: What is an Ecological Civilization? What are the possible paths and driving forces to get there? What are some good examples paving the way towards this vision?

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Interweavings: A Season of Darkness and Light 2023

In this event, Sheri Kling will introduce some of the major holidays in late fall and early winter, noting their significance in each tradition. We’ll look at Diwali, Advent, Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Epiphany, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, and Lunar New Year.

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