Center for Process Studies
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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.
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
-Daniel Day Williams, The Spirit and the Forms of Love, p. 173
February 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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
-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.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/an-...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/an-...
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
This book articulates how African metaphysics (characterized by force) and process metaphysics (characterized by becoming) are similar on several fronts.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/an-...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/an-...
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...
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/interw...
February 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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...
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
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 18
February 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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
-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.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
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
-David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism, p. 5
February 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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
-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...
Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2026
Learn more and submit: ctr4process.org/call-for-sub...
February 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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...
Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2026
Learn more and submit: ctr4process.org/call-for-sub...
In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
February 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/the...
The submission deadline for the 14th International Whitehead Conference has been extended! NEW DEADLINE: February 27, 2026.
Learn more & submit: ctr4process.org/conference/14th-international-whitehead-conference/
Learn more & submit: ctr4process.org/conference/14th-international-whitehead-conference/
February 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
The submission deadline for the 14th International Whitehead Conference has been extended! NEW DEADLINE: February 27, 2026.
Learn more & submit: ctr4process.org/conference/14th-international-whitehead-conference/
Learn more & submit: ctr4process.org/conference/14th-international-whitehead-conference/
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
-Susanne Langer, Philosophical Sketches, p. 94
February 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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
-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.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
February 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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.
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/the-cr...
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.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
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.
Watch now: youtu.be/vyW4ax6zaPg
Watch now: youtu.be/vyW4ax6zaPg
January 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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.
Watch now: youtu.be/vyW4ax6zaPg
Watch now: youtu.be/vyW4ax6zaPg
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
-Alfred North Whitehead, Quoted by Mary Elizabeth Moore, Teaching from the Heart, p. 13
January 30, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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
-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...
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/interw...
January 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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...
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.
Read the full post here: ctr4process.org/article/why-...
Read the full post here: ctr4process.org/article/why-...
January 28, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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.
Read the full post here: ctr4process.org/article/why-...
Read the full post here: ctr4process.org/article/why-...
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.
RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/john-b...
RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/john-b...
January 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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.
RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/john-b...
RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/john-b...
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
-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, p. 24
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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
-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.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
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...
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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...
Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
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
-Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 259
January 23, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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
-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.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/ess...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/ess...
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
This collection of essays highlights a triangulation between the respective works of William James, Alfred N. Whitehead, and Jakob von Uexküll.
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/ess...
Get a copy: ctr4process.org/new-book/ess...
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
-Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 115
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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
-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.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
January 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
In this presentation, Leslie King will share almost 20 years of implementing process thought in congregational life.
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
Learn more & RSVP: cobb.institute/event/proces...
