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The Center for Process Studies (CPS) is a nonprofit think-and-action tank that conducts interdisciplinary research and education to cultivate holistic understanding for human and planetary flourishing.
A creative, thoughtful, and engaging introduction to the theological quest, Catherine Keller’s much-praised volume On the Mystery is now presented in a new edition, with a new preface and teaching resources.
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Religion is the vision of… something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 275
This session will be an exploration of leadership in the context of hyper-fear, aggression, and combative speech and action.
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This short excursion into the teachings of the Buddha covers basics such as “The Four Noble Truths” in addition to chapters “The Buddhist Attitude of Mind” and facilitator Terry Goddard's favorite, “The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta.”
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.
-Buckminster Fuller, I Seem to Be a Verb, p. 1
This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect, listen, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently.
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This book explores how developments in mathematics & mathematical understanding can indicate and contribute to assessing metaphysical considerations when accounts of reality are approached from the standpoint of an articulated representation of the good.
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The certificate program in process thought and practice provides students with a unique opportunity to learn about the great diversity of process philosophies and the wide variety of ways in which those ideas can be expressed in everyday life.
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We are happy to announce that registration is now open for A New Dawn, the inaugural conference of the Mind-at-Large Project!
Originally planned for Exeter, UK, the conference will now be held fully online April 15–17, 2026.
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This talk will focus specifically on the metaphysical scheme of multi/race/less/ness and how Gill proposes it offers a way out of the hierarchies of racial identification.
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It is customary to under-value theology in a secular history of philosophical thought. This is a mistake, since for a period of about thirteen hundred years the ablest thinkers were mostly theologians.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 129
This short excursion into the teachings of the Buddha covers basics such as “The Four Noble Truths” in addition to “The Buddhist Attitude of Mind” and facilitator Terry Goddard's favorite, “The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta.”
Learn more and sign up: processandfaith.org/groups/readi...
This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes.
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You have then this fact: that all things are in the universe and the universe is in all things; we in it and it in us—and that therefore all things concur in a perfect unity.
-Giordano Bruno, Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic, p. 138-9
In this presentation, Erin Hawkins will explore how process-relational philosophy and complexity theory fundamentally challenge conventional understandings of leadership.
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This Reading and Practice Formation Series offers a spiritually grounded space to reflect, listen, and re-center—without demonizing those who see the world differently.
Sign up: processandfaith.org/nurturing-th...
In this Process Pop-Up, Swami Padmanabha discusses the ideas in his book Evolution in Divine Love. He invites us to view reality not as a closed system, but as a living, breathing process of growth, beauty, and co-creative transformation.
Watch here: youtu.be/OXF4trRWvqc
The consciousness which is individual in us, is universal in [God]; the love, which is partial in us is all-embracing in him. He is not the world, but the valuation of the world.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 152
As part of our new SPARKS initiative, the Center for Process Studies is curating online art exhibitions that invite members of our community to share works inspired by process-relational thought & practice.
Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2026
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In Whitehead and Jesus, author Bruce G. Epperly charts a deeply personal and theological journey spanning over fifty years, exploring the dynamic interplay between the renowned philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and Jesus.
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In this event, Rabbi Berner and Dr. Kling will share their own experiences with reshaping traditional practices to reawaken modern sensibilities to potentially transforming encounters with texts and with the Divine.
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The history of thought is a tragic mix of vibrant disclosure and of deadening closure. The sense of penetration is lost in the certainty of completed knowledge. This dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought, p. 81
Theologies are instruments of vision, not resting places for the mind and heart of faith.
-Daniel Day Williams, The Spirit and the Forms of Love, p. 173
This book articulates how African metaphysics (characterized by force) and process metaphysics (characterized by becoming) are similar on several fronts.
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In this event, Rabbi Berner and Dr. Kling will share their own experiences with reshaping traditional practices to reawaken modern sensibilities to potentially transforming encounters with texts and with the Divine.
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/interw...
Civilization is the maintenance of social order by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 18
Hope Montgomery is a musician, songwriter, and artist. In this SPARKS Exchange, Hope will talk about her works and the creative process and life of a spirit-forward person.
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The integration of moral, aesthetic, and religious intuitions with the most general doctrines of the sciences into a self-consistent world view [is] one of the central tasks of philosophy in our time.
-David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism, p. 5
As part of our new SPARKS initiative, the Center for Process Studies is curating online art exhibitions that invite members of our community to share works inspired by process-relational thought & practice.
Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2026
Learn more and submit: ctr4process.org/call-for-sub...