Open Says Me
by Charles Bowie
A great deal of my life is composed of doors and windows. My place of living, my automobile, and my place of employment are all composed of doors and windows. These items in my daily life contribute to a binary way of looking at things; after all doors and windows are either op..
A Process Christmas
by Carolyn Roncolato
The standard Christmas story- preached from pulpits, performed in pageants, colored on cards, and sung in songs- depicts Jesus as some sort of perfect God baby- “the cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, but little lord Jesus no crying he makes.” Christian loyalty to Greek ph..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 3a of 3
by Darren Iammarino
Point 3: (Too Christian) There is no good reason why Process thought ought to be so tightly linked to Christianity. In fact, all this has achieved is confusion and a dilution of the greatness of the Christian tradition and the Process tradition. If you keep Process under the..
An Expose (to lay bare) on Breast Cancer
by Ann Pederson
“There’s no release from reality, no ‘outside’ or ‘beyond’ from which some transforming touch might come. But what a relief it can be to befriend contingency, to meet God right here in the havoc of change, to feel love like a stroke of pure luck.” (17) My Bright Abyss, by Christ..
Prehension and Friendliness: Creative, Dynamic Peace
By Dr. Arlette Poland
Whitehead coined the term prehension. In his opus, Process and Reality, starting at page 19, he begins to unfold what prehension means in his complex and thorough biological model of existence and becoming. Prehension has two aspects that can be understood as subjective an..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 2 of 3
by Darren Iammarino
Point 2 (Too Academic): My primary concern with this second article is to suggest possibilities for moving process thought forward. This brings us to point number 2; for a listing of the four points, please refer to the previous blog post in this series: Process Theology or ..
“THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS”: San Bernardino and The Politics of Prayer
by Austin Roberts
Yesterday, there was another mass shooting in the US, this time in San Bernardino, California. As I write, 14 persons have been killed and 17 injured. My heart breaks for the community and families who have been affected. I spent two years studying theology in Claremont, only 30..
First Sun in Advent
by Sheri Kling
No one likes Advent. This time of year, nobody wants to wait in darkness. We like the bright, shiny things that populate the Christmas season – the bigger, brighter, and shinier the better. But in Advent – at least as it is observed in the Lutheran church – the only brightness fl..
Process Theology or Process Yoga (Part 1 of 3)
by Darren Iammarino
What is the first thing that most people think of when they hear the phrase: Process Theology? My experience has shown that the answers are the following: that sounds too academic, too complex, too intellectual, and, it seems boring. Now go out to some of those same people an..
HOW TO MOTIVATE MILLENIALS
By Darren Iammarino
Millennials are a unique group. If you are a Baby Boomer or a Gen X’er you probably find it difficult to relate to today’s youth. I was born in 1981, in a gray area between Gen X and the Millennials and therefore, I feel that I have the unique advantage of being able to tran..