In this pop-up, Christie Byers will explore what it means to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on process thought, she shares an approach to science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert & toward experiencing it as relational. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/a-proc...

This six-session course led by Dan Dombrowski will use Charles Hartshorne’s book 'Philosophers Speak of God' to examine both the concept of God and the existence of God. Learn more & sign up: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/ph...

Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows. -Alfred North Whitehead, Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect, p. 8

In this session, Lopon Dorje Khandro and Rev. Dr. Dhammabodhi will briefly explore critical intersections between Buddhism, New Paradigm Sciences, and the Practicalities of Dementia Caregiving in the United States. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

No people can afford to reject their past entirely, for it is their past that has made their personal identity. -Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, p. 132

In Process Studies Vol. 55.1, Pedro A. D. Brea develops a Deleuzian critique of classical thermodynamics by rethinking energy in terms of intensity, rather than as a conserved extensive quantity. cc: @ctr4process.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/artic...

In this course, participants will explore various world religions, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living, through a lens of process and relational thought. Learn more & sign up: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/pr...

In this Process Pop-Up, Michael Rose will introduce his new book Made by Love, For Love and invite conversation to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

Death and the passage of time destroy no concrete realities: for the concrete consists of events, not persons or things, but persons or things at given moments. -Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, p. 48

The goal of the present presentation is to explore the important contribution George Allan can make toward understanding the contemporary crumbling of the “walls of the cathedral of learning,” to use his dramatic metaphor. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

In this pop-up, Christie Byers will explore what it means to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on process thought, she shares an approach to science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert & toward experiencing it as relational. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/a-proc...

Churches, rituals, bibles, codes of behaviour, are the trappings of religion, its passing forms… But the end of religion is beyond all this. -Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 17

In this course, participants will explore various world religions, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living, through a lens of process and relational thought. Learn more & sign up: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/pr...

The next book for the Readings on Faiths Around the World learning circle led by Terry Goddard is Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman. Learn more & sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. -Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, p. 129

In this session, Rabbi Or Rose will explore a well-known Hasidic tale about mentorship and Torah study. Rabbi Rose will also examine how this story serves as a model of the power of storytelling as a sacred practice. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

The creativity of the world is the throbbing emotion of the past hurling itself into a new transcendent fact. It is the flying dart, of which Lucretius speaks, hurled beyond the bounds of the world. -Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 177

In this SPARKS Exchange Melissa Cowper-Smith will be sharing about her Artists Garden, where she gathers materials she transforms through her creative process. Her art is expressed through beekeeping, papermaking, fiber arts, and encaustic painting. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/eco-ar...

The freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition. -Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 289

Check out "Process Philosophy and Complexity Science: Systems Theory, Emergentism, Feedback Loops, and Autopoiesis" by Traill Dowie and Julien Tempone-Wiltshire in the latest issue of Process Studies (55.1). cc: @ctr4process.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/artic...

In this course, participants will explore various world religions, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living, through a lens of process and relational thought. Learn more & sign up: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/pr...

Engaging voices such as Whitehead, Thomas Jay Oord, Walter Wink, Catherine Keller, and Parker J. Palmer, Sheri Kling reframes traditional just war thinking through a relational lens that challenges assumptions about power, control, and violence. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

CPS is proud to announce the launch of the Process & Science Network (PSN), a new program dedicated to cultivating rigorous dialogue between process philosophy and the natural sciences. Read the full announcement from Andrew Schwartz & Matt Segall: ctr4process.org/announcing-t...

Scientific revolutions are inaugurated by a growing sense... that an existing paradigm has ceased to function adequately in the exploration of an aspect of nature to which that paradigm itself had previously led the way. -Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 91

Process Studies Vol. 55, No. 1, is now available! Featuring 6 new articles, including "Langer's Theory of Image and Gestalt and Her 'Reception' among Philosophers" by Randall Auxier. Plus, 3 book reviews! 📚️ cc: @ctr4process.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/issue...

The latest issue of our journal Process Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1) brings together six original articles that push the boundaries of process thought across philosophy, science, and metaphysics. Learn more and subscribe: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/issue...

In this presentation, former Russian Orthodox priest-monk Sa’īd Abdul Latif (Troy Heagy) reflects on his journey from Eastern Christian monasticism to a form of process theology-informed Sufi Islam. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

Traditional ideas are never static. They are either fading into meaningless formulae, or are gaining power by the new lights thrown by a more delicate apprehension… One fact is certain, you cannot keep them still. -Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 269

Apparently, Thomas Jay Oord has written the first book with the title, A Systematic Theology of Love. In this pop-up, Oord talks about what differences love makes to a consistent theology. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

We are looking to expand our team by hiring two contractors to help with our growing technology and media needs! We are now accepting applications for a professional video editor as well as a virtual event & recording technician. Learn more & apply: ctr4process.org/about/employ...

In its most general form and from the point of view of physics, love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world, centre to centre. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Activation of Energy, p. 70

Conversations with process thinkers inspired Philip Clayton's most recent book, Science and the Sacred. Now he returns to the group that inspired the book to reflect with you on lessons learned since its publication, and to hear responses. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They tell us who we are. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness. -Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, p. 7

Religion cannot exist without music. It is too abstract. Music comes before religion, as emotion comes before thought, and sound before sense. -Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of A. N. Whitehead As Recorded by Lucien Price, p. 250

Apparently, Thomas Jay Oord has written the first book with the title, A Systematic Theology of Love. In this pop-up, Oord talks about what differences love makes to a consistent theology. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. -Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, p. 234

In this session of Process Explorations, Catherine Keller considers an apocalypse of dis/closure, not closure. Can the crisis itself crack open ways of greater collective attention to human and other-than-human wellbeing? Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

The universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but… this creativity and these forms are together impotent to achieve actuality apart from the completed ideal harmony, which is God. -Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 115

Ever wondered how to introduce process theology into your congregation? Join Pastor Brian Cromer for a process pop-up exploring a four-week journey that uses diverse practices to immerse a community in core themes of process thought. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

Clock time says the pizza should have arrived one minute ago but what's existentially salient is my experience of hunger in duration… #HenriBergson #Memes #PhilosophyMemes #Existential #ProcessPhilosophy #RunningLate

Fortunately there are a great many things which do not much matter, and we can have them how we will. The opposite point of view has been the nursery of fanatism, and has tinged history with ferocity. -Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 256

This six-session course offers participants a guided introduction to Whitehead’s worldview, providing both conceptual grounding and experiential entry points into process philosophy. Sign up: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/di...

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement? -Gilles Deleuze, Cinema I: The Movement-Image, p. 66

#Whitehead #Heidegger #ProcessPhilosophy #Ontology #ContinentalPhilosophy #PhilosophyMemes #Metaphysics #Ontotheology #ProcessTheology

This book offers a bold re-examination of how African spirituality and religion are understood, challenging centuries of misrepresentation shaped by colonial and Abrahamic thought. Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/pan...

In this SPARKS Exchange Kevin Yeh 葉浩白 will perform a live demonstration of the Yeh Splash Ink style and explore the concepts of perceived permanence and taking the first step in a journey. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/splash...

The atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it… is no longer a burden on the memory: it is energizing as the poet of our dreams, and as the architect of our purposes. -Whitehead, The Aims of Education, p. 139

Ever wondered how to introduce process theology into your congregation? Join Pastor Brian Cromer for a process pop-up exploring a four-week journey that uses diverse practices to immerse a community in core themes of process thought. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

In this talk, Ann Taves will share experiences drawn from her research to illustrate and discuss how considering experiences as events can help us to understand the factors that interact to produce experiences of known presences. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...

What happened to him? Just the perpetual perishing inherent to the lifecycle of any actual occasion. In Whitehead's philosophy, all occasions of experience lose their subjective immediacy once they have completed their process of becoming—what he calls "concresence".