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Can Prehension Lead to Truth?
By Arlette Poland
The actual occasion, as it is becoming actual, prehends information from the past. It determines what to eliminate or keep or ignore. It is as if the occasion matches the energy of the past and thus decides what to accept or not into its becoming. It is like an emotional resp..
Process Thoughts as A Truth Story: The reality of connection is the meeting place of Truth
By Arlette Poland
Hasidism (an Orthodox form of Judaism) has many stories all of which not only draw on the past but also and more importantly on the opportunity for learning how to live the teaching about connection and care. Many of the stories teach of the yetzer ha’rah and the yetzer ha’tov..
Process Thought as Source for Ethics
By Dr. Arlette Poland
In Judaism, community and ethical behavior go hand in hand. We are told that our community is our life and our life is best when it is ethical. To be ethical, of course, involves following the mitzvoth (commandments/good deeds). Added to that, however, is the underlying re..
Relation Is: Ethics Must Follow as Care and Connection
By Arlette Poland
Whitehead taught us that everything that ever was is somehow part of everything that is becoming and then that event that becomes will be part of the next things that are becoming. The activity that leaves out one or another of the past is actually a process: the process of be..
Chaosmic Process Theology: Deleuze and Whitehead
by Austin Roberts
In recent years, I have become interested in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. What initially attracted me to his work was discovering that Deleuze considered Whitehead to be “the last great Anglo-American philosopher” of the 20th century, calling his magnum opus Process and R..
Snow Prints and Free Determinism
by Charles Bowie
It’s early January and the snow is here. School is cancelled and I’m just here with my dog watching the snow fall. Ahhhh, but I know my boy is going to have to go out soon, so I guess I’ll get my gear and get ready to traverse this weather.
Out in the snow, I’m bundled up pretty..
The Spirituality of Bernie Sanders
by Austin Roberts
In an interview with the Washington Post this week, Bernie Sanders opened up about the spirituality that informs his politics. His comments, although brief, were provocative enough to spark my theological curiosity. He rarely discusses topics like God or religion, preferring to ..
Process Theology or Process Yoga? Part 3b of 3
by Darren Iammarino,
Point 4: (How Do We Practice Process Yoga?) If there are multiple religious ultimates—so more than just God—then there are multiple pathways of salvation or perhaps, one must trod all of these paths. It means we may need meditation as much as we need prayer. However, what n..
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..