Center for Process Studies

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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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

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In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination.

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The submission deadline for the 14th International Whitehead Conference has been extended! NEW DEADLINE: February 27, 2026.

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The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion.

-Susanne Langer, Philosophical Sketches, p. 94

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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In this session of Process Explorations, Bruce Epperly will reflect on the meaning of Lent from a process perspective. Lent is a holy adventure of simplifying and awakening to God’s presence in ourselves and the world.

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In this SPARKS Exchange, Lipeng Jin explores how art, ecology, and education can converge to cultivate hope, resilience, and belonging in our time of planetary transition.

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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present… The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past and it is the future.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Quoted by Mary Elizabeth Moore, Teaching from the Heart, p. 13

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...

In the latest post on the Center for Process Studies Blog, Jonathan Cobb—grandson of John B. Cobb, Jr.—reflects on the Whiteheadian intellectual tradition and where his own thinking diverges from this lineage.

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Marking the first anniversary of the passing of John Cobb, this online memorial gathering will honor his life, his enduring legacy, and the living influence of his thought. It will offer a quiet & heartfelt space for remembrance, reflection, and gratitude.

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The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, p. 24

This Process Explorations session offers a reflective account of a recent journey through several regions of China, undertaken in the wake of John B. Cobb Jr.’s passing.

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In this Process Pop-Up, Swami Padmanabha will discuss 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.

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In the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 259

This collection of essays highlights a triangulation between the respective works of William James, Alfred N. Whitehead, and Jakob von Uexküll.

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The order of the world, the depth of reality of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, the peace of life and the mastery of evil are all bound together.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 115

In this presentation, Leslie King will share almost 20 years of implementing process thought in congregational life.

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Showing the role that philosophy of religion has played in reifying ideas of race and racial categories, Jon Gill looks beyond that legacy to a world after and beyond those ideas.

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This SPARKS Exchange features an exposition of Middle Eastern music focusing on the piece Hicazkâr Saz Semai as a template for appreciation of the unique process of modulation that is prevalent in Middle Eastern music. Abdessamad Mason Zantow presents on the lâvta.

Watch here: youtu.be/GSN2Ofjnx38

"It must be one of the motives of a complete cosmology to construct a system of ideas which brings the aesthetic, moral, and religious interests into relation with those concepts of the world which have their origin in natural science.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. xii"

In this Process Pop-Up, Swami Padmanabha will discuss 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.

Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

- Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, p. 14

In this special event, the students from the 2025 Certificate in Process Thought and Practice will present their springboard projects. Their projects range from artistic expressions of creativity to academic explorations of Whitehead’s philosophy.

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In this SPARKS Exchange, artist and educator Lipeng Jin invites you into the story of the “Healing Garden”—an evolving eco-art and pedagogical experiment at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China.

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