Center for Process Studies

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

-Thomas Berry, Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community, p. 17

In this Process Pop-Up, Patrick Mahaffey will introduce us to his book Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization and discuss his proposed form of integrative spirituality, uniting psychological wholeness with spiritual realization.

Learn more & RSVP: https://processandfaith.org/event/process-pop-up-individuation-and-beyond-world-views-god-images-and-self-realization/

Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of greatness.

-Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education, p. 106

Creeds are at once the outcome of speculation and efforts to curb speculation… Wherever there is a creed, there is a heretic round the corner or in his grave.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 66

The Center for Process Studies is excited to be collaborating with the journal Metamodern Theory and Praxis on a Special Issue focused on process social ontologies!

This Special Issue, guest edited by Jared Morningstar, aims to provide occasion to further explore and expand the emancipatory potential of processual modes of thought and analysis, drawing connections between previously disparate discourses and utilizing these new tools of knowledge creation to overcome the limitations of both modern and postmodern research paradigms and, in doing so, to advance understanding of the major issues of our age.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: October 1, 2026.

Read the full call for papers: https://ctr4process.org/call-for-papers-special-issue-of-metamodern-theory-and-praxis-on-process-social-ontologies/

[God] is both physical and spiritual, and the divine body is all surpassing and all-inclusive of the creaturely bodies, which are to God as cells to a supercellular organism

-Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, p. 44-45

The glorification of power has broken more hearts than it has healed.

-Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 55

Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” is one of the most significant attempts in all of philosophy to think through what reality must be like because you are a part of it. His philosophical vision is at once vast, various, and prismatic. His wife Evelyn once used the wonderful metaphor of a prism to describe his thinking, saying: “It must be seen not from one side alone but from all sides, then from underneath and overhead. So seen, as one moves around it, the prism is full of changing lights and colours. To have seen it from one side only is to not have seen it.”

This five-session course, taught by Andrew M. Davis, aims to reveal the various sides, lights, and colors belonging to Whitehead’s process philosophy from the microscopic to the macroscopic, and in direct relation to your experience as an expression of the universe.

Learn more & register: https://portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/whiteheads-process-philosophy-2026/

There is a need for a new way of living and new outlook on life, where people take care of one another and the earth, living with respect and care for the entire community of life. An ecological civilization is this new way.

-Zhihe Wang, ""Constructive Postmodernism Is a Better Choice"