“Most of the actually existing church acts as a type of drug den with the leaders being like the nicest, most sincere drug dealers. What we pay for are songs, sermons, and prayers that help us avoid our suffering rather than work [...]

In my version of process thought, the uniquely all-inclusive way of newly interacting (God) can just as easily be described as boundlessly self-othering communion—a way of interacting, in order to be newly interacting, must be inherently self-othering, and in order to continue [...]

Actually, I tend to cringe at the phrase, “Jesus follower.” I often hear Christians use that phrase to shirk responsibility for all the detestable baggage that Christianity has dumped on the world. They don't seem to realize that quite a bit of [...]

Deconstruction may not be for everyone, but I find John Caputo’s writing on “God, perhaps” delightfully seductive. And I find it largely congruent with process thought. Indeed, it’s well documented that he and process theologian Catherine Keller seem to belong to a [...]

Slavoj Zizek’s dialectical materialism is derived, he claims, from our experience of “the occurrence of an insurmountable parallax gap, the confrontation of two closely linked perspectives between which no neutral common ground is possible” (4). It asserts “the inherent ‘tension’, gap, noncoincidence, [...]

My spiritual practice is to awaken every morning to the inescapability of God, the reality* wherein I and all others “live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28), and articulating this awakening, as I’m doing right now, is an integral part [...]

Instead of simply reciting the Apostles’ or Nicene Creeds, GraceUnlimited offers this credal meditation at its Common Worship service. (Here’s the service leaflet.) We open ourselves, inquisitively, to the teachings of the ancient creeds: —that we and all others are beloved offspring [...]

For me and those spiritual leaders I most respect, faith, first and foremost, is awakening trustfully to all that is involved in being here. When I follow through with this as thoroughly and consistently as I can, it becomes one kind of [...]

Ever-Present Wisdom, in times of examination inspire our minds to respond truly and fully. Grant us courage to receive others’ judgments gracefully and creatively. And keep us ever mindful that nothing can separate us from the love your enfleshed life among us [...]

[This is for a group discussion on process theology at Pyre, a young adult collective supported by GraceUnlimited. There’s a more long-winded discussion here.] In one sentence, what is process thought? Reality continually engages us as a boundless ensemble of ways of [...]